House of Leaves

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K, Follow me on this one.This is a book written by the narrator about a book written by a blind man that the narrator knew that died about a movie ... (show more)

K, Follow me on this one.This is a book written by the narrator about a book written by a blind man that the narrator knew that died about a movie (that never existed, even in the books world) about a house with a supernatural world inside it and chronicles the unraveling of the men in the house in the movie, the man writing the book about the movie, and the man writing the book about the book about the movie about the house.

Now, I don't do drugs, but i imagine that if you tried to read a normal book while on drugs, it would read like this book does. And if that is what i am missing, its time i start shooting heroin into the veins on my junk.

the book is incredibly ambitious, and well worth the time decoding the little nuances of puzzle thrown throughout the book. It took me a while and i enjoyed every minute of it.

You, as the reader get to bear witness to the men that slip farther and farther from reality while lost within the house, the blind man who's life work the narrator compiled, and the narrator himself. At times the book is so disturbing, as you can see the parallels between the characters, and the way it is written and laid out seems to pull you further and further into the world until you uneasily turn every page, afraid of what may possibly happen next.

Read the book, I can't how amazing this guy is going to continue to be as he grows as an author.
I tried to get my friends in grad school to read it, but they all said it sounded like too much work and that they didn;t like to think that much when they read.... God damn it Chemists are lazy. (show less)

 

 

by Facebook-gebruiker

No, it's a flop!

Almost everyone I know on Earth, was up my ass to read this book when it came out. With so many recommendations and all that praise for 'House of L... (show more)

Almost everyone I know on Earth, was up my ass to read this book when it came out. With so many recommendations and all that praise for 'House of Leaves', I picked it up. Truth be told, I really didn't like it. I get what it was trying to do but it was all over the map to the point that it wasn't hard to follow, I just didn't care to. The book is unusually tedious and that took away from it. There were elements of the novel I thoroughly enjoyed but it wasn't enough to make me care with all the discombobulated filler, that really wasn't all that necessary to begin with. It's like Danielewski was trying too hard to flesh out something cool that was original and thought provoking but in the end it felt like a badly edited film that some producer stepped in, fired the director and replaced him with a less talented substitute, only to deliver us a mash up of multiple styles trying to trick us into believing that it is one seamless vision. It just didn't work for me. (show less)

 

 

by Rob Rimes

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  if hell has a library, this is its only book.

   

  by Facebook-gebruiker on Dec 13, 2008 at 06:51PM

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  If you don't see much of a point to this book, if you come out of reading it thinking "meh, it wasn't great"; or if you still have a modernist way of thinking and it simply seemed absurd to you - then you are lucky. For those of us who realized just what we were reading, just what we found ourselves doing in the act of reading/writing that book, life itself has altered dimension. Some of us will escape, sacrificing a bit of our minds to its traumatic memory inside of us, but kept fa... (show more)

  If you don't see much of a point to this book, if you come out of reading it thinking "meh, it wasn't great"; or if you still have a modernist way of thinking and it simply seemed absurd to you - then you are lucky. For those of us who realized just what we were reading, just what we found ourselves doing in the act of reading/writing that book, life itself has altered dimension. Some of us will escape, sacrificing a bit of our minds to its traumatic memory inside of us, but kept far from consciousness; some of us will never leave the [blue]house[/blue].

  I don't have the motivation to write any more. Funny thing is, you'll either think I'm playing a game by writing this review - or thinking I'm ridiculous for taking "entertainment" so seriously. Haha. Good for you. Haha, yeah. But the ones who do understand will read this review and go and hold the ones they love as tight as possible, to reassure themselves and to restore the heat in their bodies. Or hold onto something. Anything, for as long as it takes to calm down.

  Good god. (show less)

   

   

  by Brandon Basham on Apr 17, 2009 at 05:20AM

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