Room 15 Author:Walter Lambert Jackson seemed to be a likeable guy, who always found himself in the middle of strange situations. The story is told by a narrator who doesn't offer any reasons for the demise of Jackson. He just explains what happened, leaving the reader to contemplate. It contains relentless commentary about society, and is full of humorous and sad events and ... more »the people who lived through them, including some who did not make it. There are three generations of men and women who find themselves less real, and more like the subjects of art. There are people from all walks of life, and all places on earth, who are woven into this story. It doesn't seem to matter what backgrounds they bring, for they all share a genuine honesty about their lives. Through it all, Jackson is shown to be on a grinding path to insanity, but as you read on, you cannot seem to detect any one event that caused it. But then again, you don't know what Jackson is thinking. He appears to be constantly thinking about something else, regardless of what the current situation presents. The characters make their transformations from living, moving creatures to fixed portraits. They used to keep pace with the movements around them, but then they stopped participating and became still portraits while the rest of their world kept moving. It didn't seem to matter whether they participated or not, and they all recognized that after many years. You can imagine watching a movie, and then seeing it stop and freeze each character into a still. They lived and acted out their lives, until they discovered what was important to them individually, then they stopped. Room 15 became a way to live, a place to be, not a process to be acted out.« less