Read This: House of Leaves
A book about a film never made, written by a man who never existed, discovered a man who was equally fictitious, edited by a fabricated authority which in turn was edited by real Editors all put together to screw with your head. It
two months of perseverance, but this mighty 700 page novel, with footnotes and footnotes in footnotes and at least two stories at any one time running, I finally finished. It’s nothing short of amazing. Forgetting the parallel stories,
appendices, the three of four page long footnotes, the obscure text layout and the erratic timeline, this
book is st - ill a
. . good old fashioned, scary book
. . . and
nothing
.
. . short of amazing.
Once again, much like here, some
. people disagreed with me
that it’s any good, . . but unless you read the book, you can’t judge it. So read it. Then
judge it. It’s rather good. That‘s why it has
August 10th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
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