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Has anyone here read this book? This is, by far, the scariest, most fucked up novel I have ever started reading. It's pretty hard to explain. The writing style is unlike anything I have ever encountered before. To be honest the book is freaking me out a bit and I'm about half-way through it. I may have to put it down for awhile. Pretty creepy story and the writing style really adds a few dimensions. This is one of the greatest horror novels labyrinths that I've ever entered. Very original. The book begins with a warning:
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Book: House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski
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Book: House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski
by lateralus » Mon 02 Apr 2007, 21:48:02
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Re: House of Leaves: Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
by I_Like_Plants » Tue 03 Apr 2007, 01:08:17
Holy William Blake!
I got to visit the Huntington Museum in San Marino once, and saw the unexectedly greenish Blue Boy, and all that. The most shocking thing was one of William Blake's original "broadsheets", he used to print these things up and go aorund handing 'em out. I got the most amazing feeling looking at the thing, since I realized Blake was basically at least at one level, the type of ranter you run into in the laundromat or all-night donut shop, and I supposed in a homeless shelter quite a bit.
I got to visit the Huntington Museum in San Marino once, and saw the unexectedly greenish Blue Boy, and all that. The most shocking thing was one of William Blake's original "broadsheets", he used to print these things up and go aorund handing 'em out. I got the most amazing feeling looking at the thing, since I realized Blake was basically at least at one level, the type of ranter you run into in the laundromat or all-night donut shop, and I supposed in a homeless shelter quite a bit.
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Re: House of Leaves: Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
by sparkylab » Tue 03 Apr 2007, 01:10:28
It's hard work. I admire you for getting as far as you have. The layout - it's like raygun magazine on steriods......I can only imagine the original manuscript.
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Re: House of Leaves: Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
by lateralus » Tue 03 Apr 2007, 01:59:50
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('sparkylab', 'T')he layout - it's like raygun magazine on steriods......I can only imagine the original manuscript.
Barnes & Noble review:
From Our Editors
A Review of House of Leaves
House of Leaves is a multilayered intersection of wild ideas, ten years in the making, from Mark Danielewski. It is also the story of a seemingly normal house gone wild. The novel intertwines the narratives of two haunted individuals: Zampano, a blind man whose strange manuscript is found in his apartment when he dies, and Johnny Truant, the tome's discoverer and narrator of House of Leaves.
Zampano's manuscript is a critique of a documentary film called "The Navidson Record," by Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker Will Navidson. The filmmaker had just moved his family into a house on Ash Tree Lane and hadn't even had the chance to unpack before the strangeness began. Navidson discovered what at first seemed like an odd prank perpetrated by a psychotic carpenter: Behind a closet door, a hallway with smooth black walls had suddenly appeared. This prompted Navidson, ever the pragmatist, to do some measurements. He learned that the inside of the house was larger than the outside. And the hallway did not just remain a hallway—it was growing rapidly, and there was a deep growl emanating from the darkness that was unlike anything he'd ever heard. Partly out of habit, but also sensing that nobody would ever believe his story, Navidson captured everything on film.
Realizing that he was out of his league, Navidson assembled a team of professional hunters and explorers, four fearless men who could navigate any terrain and deal with any physical hardship. Armed with the best high-tech equipment, cameras, and plenty of supplies, they ventured into the dreamlike interior of the house. The discovered that the house was mutating, spawning a web of incredibly complex, pitch-black passageways and cavernous spaces. Dimension and space shifted constantly, becoming fluid and dangerous. The house humbled the team, rendered their equipment useless, and turned them against each other.
Danielewski's descriptions of the explorations of the interior are amazing (think Into Thin Air in a surreal dreamscape). As the house mutates, so does Zampano's manuscript; the text takes on a life of its own, and the layout responds. The film critique is heavily and amazingly footnoted in a way that blurs the line between artifice and reality. The house is completely baffling, Johnny is sliding into madness, and there is something evil that haunted Zampano and the house on Ash Tree Lane and now stalks Johnny. His transformation is also extraordinary: He goes from being an apathetic, hedonistic, eviction-dodging tattoo shop apprentice to a physically wasted, haunted shadow of his former self.
House of Leaves is an incredible blend of mystery, madness, and terror that makes the reader uncomfortable in an entirely new and fascinating way. The novel asks an important question: What are we afraid of? It goes after the deeper origins of fear and stays with us—in our thoughts and dreams—long after we've turned the last page.
—Sophie Cottrell
The story is a story about a man (Johnny Truant) who finds a manuscript by a blind man (Zampano) who went mad telling a tale about a man (Navidson) that went mad after discovering something terribly wrong with his house...as you read (Johny Truant) tells you about his desent into madness.....as each character is simultaneouly 'talking to you' in footnotes....which makes you mad....fucking unreal book....
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Re: House of Leaves: Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski
by Daculling » Tue 03 Apr 2007, 20:26:08
The house at least sounds somewhat like Rose Red. Seem interesting. I'll check it out.
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