“A hypnotic first-person story about isolation and the thoughs and labyrinths of the isolated mind. Rhetorically disturbing. I’m uncertain if I can call any of it humour”
Sindre Andersen, Klassekampen, Best of 2020

“[Tideman is] a writer who knows how to use simple, but efficient means to create both suspense and a sinister atmosphere. The book’s 38 year old narrator has barricaded himself in his old room in his mother’s house where he grew up. He refuses to have anything to do with the world, and spends his days staring out the window. His comfort zone shrinks as his neuroses grow, and the result is a claustrophobic portrait of extreme isolation. The book is a page-turner even if almost nothing happens, and it offers an intense understanding of a dizzying feeling of meaninglessness.”
Nomination jury for the Young Readers’ Critics’ Prize

“It’s a dark matter that V.S. Tideman explores in Me, the Room … Still, the novel is not merely a terrifying read, the writing is too fluent and powerful for that. It’s just deeply disturbing … There is an energy here that ensures that it never gets dull to read about the narrator’s passive life, his regressive withdrawal. The novel’s force comes from Tideman’s ability to convey the ambiguity – both the vulnerability and the self-righteousness – of the narrator’s mind. He adds a disturbing murmur to the narrator’s story, gradually turning it up to an ear-splitting volume. Me, the Room shows how normality can tip over into its opposite, into madness and psychosis. It’s frightening and very well done”
Dagbladet

“V.S Tideman convincingly portrays a disturbed mind from within … I, the Room is stylistically slightly reminiscent of Dag Solstad’s novels about Bjørn Hansen, another outsider in Norwegian literature. With acute psychological sensibility, V.S. Tideman convincingly portrays a person who rejects the world around him in a way that to a certain extent inspires the reader’s sympathy. It’s well done. I, the Room is his fifth novel since his debut I 2009. V.S. Tideman has gradually achieved a notable position in contemporary literature and is today considered an exciting name in literary circles as well as among readers.”
Dag og Tid

“Despite its claustrophobic universe, Tideman’s novel is an exciting read … Our unease is transformed something strange and enigmatic into something more thriller-like. The turn towards a more recognizable illness, makes the novel evade a philosophical discussion about whether life can actually be lived the way the main character lives it – isolated from everything and everybody. Seeking out isolation is something else than being left to isolation or being forced to isolation. Me, the Room speaks to all levels of human confinement. Also the longing to be entertained”
Morgenbladet