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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Is House of Leaves good? It's been sitting on my shelf for ages

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

yeah it rules. weird horror-ish book that goes places

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

It's one of my favorites. It came out when I was in my late teens and working at a library, and it really knocked my socks off with its presentation and style. You have to read the physical book, though. So much of the vibe of the story is relayed in the way the words are arranged on the page, which is very often decidedly non-standard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People can tell how much I care for them by whether or not I've gifted them a copy of this book

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well shit, I hope things ended amicably. I don't think I'd be able to survive this book ending up labeled a 'douchebag book' because a bunch of absolute ballbags share this book in common

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

no lmao we're still friends. it's a good book! i am pro house of leaves!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's extremely fun if you have the patience for it. You'll especially enjoy it if you have experience with and/or enjoy reading academic texts, because the format of the book (and the frame story) plays around with footnotes, endnotes, citations, and references quite a lot. Go into it like you're reading a Serious Academic Work and do all the things you'd usually do with that (margin notes, cross-referencing different mentions of similar ideas, etc.) and it's especially rewarding. Even without all that stuff, though, it's a banger of a horror-romance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Go into it like you're reading a Serious Academic Work and do all the things you'd usually do with that

Skip to the end first and read maybe half of the sections before tossing it aside to read the conclusions sections of exactly 1/3 of its own citations?