I had no idea what "The Room" was. So as a quick reference, "The Room" was a movie that was panned as the worst movie that was ever made this century. But fans of the cult film love it because its so bad its actually quite funny--or so the narrative goes. 
 The book was written by an actor in the movie and a personal friend of the movie's producer, writer, lead actor, cameraman, etc. Greg was friends with the very eccentric Tommy Wiseau, a man who was very clearly going through some relationship trauma. The book reminded me of Rob Lowe's book in its behind the movies story telling attributes. The sad part was that because I have never heard of Greg Sestero, I knew that he never got the roles of all the auditions he went to. But as much as the book was about his struggle with fitting into Hollywood, it was about his friend Tommy's struggle. 
 Tommy decided one day that he was going to make a movie on his terms and no one else's. The man was egotistical, abusive, petulant, and just plain crazy in that bad way. A lot of the others that read this book found these qualities endearing. I did not. Halfway through the book I was trying to remember why I was reading it and whether I should finish it. There is only so much arrogance I could take and this guy was exploding with it. Greg does a fine job in capturing his friend's "creative process" but honestly I wondered why he was friend's with this man at all. 
 The book was supposed to motivate me to want to watch this "so terrible its funny movie", but honestly I had no desire to devote two hours of my time to a movie made by such a unlikable and arrogant person. I appreciated the sincerity with which the book was written, but despite his best efforts I could not agree that Tommy was the kind of man who should get a second chance. He was a disaster, but there was no artist in him at all.