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House of Leaves Anonymous 2015-10-31 22:10:01 No.2327

Hello Lainons, I was just wondering if any of you chummers had come across this book before, I'd love to discuss it. No matter how many times I read it I always find something new.
If you haven't before I ask that you approach this text with an open mind as it is very strange, the author has a habit of using visual metaphor in how he arranges his text

I can't promise you will like it, only that you have never seen anything like it before, nor are you likely to ever again. Have fun, stay safe, and watch out for that shadow in the corner.

Anonymous 2015-10-31 22:13:31 No.2328

Unless I'm mistaken you can read the book here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/175262839/Mark-Z-Danielewski-House-Of-Leaves-pdf-pdf#scribd

Anonymous 2015-10-31 23:21:44 No.2329

I got about halfway through it, lent it to a friend, and haven't gotten it back yet. great, I was just getting to the interesting part.

I liked the usage of visual metaphor and other formatting stuff, I feel like he should try harder with his female characters, they don't do an awful lot outside of sex.
>>2328
http://bookzz.org/book/1110061/03f198
maybe this one is better?

Anonymous 2015-11-01 00:07:09 No.2330

>>2329
The females (well, one of them anyway) take a much stronger role later in the novel

Anonymous 2015-11-01 00:07:44 No.2331

>>2330
Actually I suppose there's that bit with the Peakinese *shudder*

Anonymous 2015-11-01 06:22:11 No.2334

>>2331
I have a feeling I don't want to know about it

I'm not sure how I feel about the gothic horror stuff he's been hinting at. on the one hand, yes, but on the other hand I like how its just the house breaking physics being the spooky part

Anonymous 2015-11-01 10:01:54 No.2338

been a long time since I read House of Leaves though I remember enjoying it. more recently I enjoyed The Fifty Year Sword, the sewn images are amazing and it tends to lean more on design elements than the narrative inventiveness of the earlier novel.

also there is a massive forum dedicated to this and Danielewski's other titles where folk from all four corners dissect his books.

Anonymous 2015-11-01 16:53:24 No.2341

>>2338
That forum just went down a few days ago

Anonymous 2015-11-06 01:43:22 No.2367

I was reminded of it for the first time in a long time the other day during a long moment of black silence in a Chris Marker film (le joli mai). Read it in high school. I'm still interested in the concept of architectural horror and the palimpsest style layering of mythology, but I remember even then finding the writing to be kind of like YA pulp and gimmicky physical structure being more novelty than content.