The Birthday Party and The Room: Two Plays Book

This has to be one of the worst books I've read. I read this for my classic ABC challenge and now I wish I had chosen a different book that started with a "B" but at least this one was short.

Truthfully these two stories in here didn't make much sense to me. I don't mind if stories are surreal or if they are weird (I do read a lot of science fiction, fantasy and horror you know) but I do expect them to have a plot that makes sense within the framework of that particular story. And these don't have that.

The Birthday Party: this one hinted at stuff but I felt just as confused at the end as I did at the beginning! I had no clue what was really going on. I feel the two men who arrived at the house were after Stanley but I'm not really certain. Nothing was explained. In fact the back of the book actually explains more than the actual story (which makes no sense).. who were the two men? Why were they possibly looking for Stanley? It's an 87 page story that manages to write a lot of words but actually says nothing.

The Room: I had hoped this one would be better but it wasn't. It's yet another very confused, mixed up story. In this one no one seems to know who the landlord of the building is. Or why a man is down in the basement waiting to see Rose. We never find out the answer. But why write these stories if they don't actually tell us the reason why? This one kept repeating stuff too, like how bad it was outside.

I really don't see how these two plays were successful in London...as the back of the book claims. They seem to be a confusing mess.