Everything here is subject to a strict schedule, but time seems to be smeared across the gray government walls. There is nothing to do here except remember and relive the events of your past life left behind the door. It's very scary here, because you are left alone with the person you hate - with yourself... "Room" (1971), the second novel by Hubert Selby, was not appreciated by critics. The author himself claimed that this book was the most painful he had ever written and admitted that for two decades he could not bring himself to re-read it. However, time has put everything in its place, and new reviews of the “prison novel” gave the author his due. The book contains obscene language, scenes of violence and cruelty!