At times HOUSE OF LEAVES made my head (and my wrists) hurt, but I admit to enjoying the former sensation. The confusion and disorientation experienced by the reader (and paralleled by the characters) seems essential in successfully traversing Danielewski's semiotic Rubic's Cube of a novel.It's an in...
House of Leaves totally sucked me in. The book is shorter than it seems, but then also longer than it seems. A contradictory statement, I am aware. You get lots of blank page with little text and then pages and page of interpolated commentary.It's kind of like a modern day Borges horror story meets ...
I grew up loving spine tinglers, but was always just a little disappointed that I couldn't find anything that really frightened me. Then I read "House of Leaves" and had to kick myself. I'd rather not be scared by a book, at least not in the way I was. "House of Leaves" got under my skin and just at...
I first heard about House of Leaves during a group discussion on Goodreads about 'strange' books. Someone told me House of Leaves was a freaky wierd book that scared the hell out of her, so I was instantly interested, and ordered a copy a few weeks later.The first thing that I thought when I opened ...
This book is one of those books that I love and I can't explain why. Experimental writing that toys with post-modernism, magical realism, and a haunting gets to me in such a way that I don't exactly know why... anymore. The story, on the surface, is told in one narrative--the main narrative?--as a...
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