You should stay up all night and read House of Leaves alone like I did Winsomemore!![]()
I'm taking it with me this weekend to Texas. I'll be there a week on business, so, I hope to draw the read out to around 5 days or so. Between the book and the WCF's I should have some interesting things to keep me occupied at night.
Did you like it????
You know, I really liked it. But it's the type of book that people either some to love or hate (not to mention just stop reading at all). I really like the strangeness of it all, which is heightened by the weird structure of the book. And...the interaction of voices that exist in the book...basically we get Truant's description of a manuscript, which in turn details a documentary of a creepy house..adds to the weirdness of the book and makes you question what exactly are we getting here and what states of mind were these people in.
I thought it was wonderfully creepy and weird, lol, but like I said, a lot of people have disagreed with my opinion.![]()
You know, I really liked it. But it's the type of book that people either some to love or hate (not to mention just stop reading at all). I really like the strangeness of it all, which is heightened by the weird structure of the book. And...the interaction of voices that exist in the book...basically we get Truant's description of a manuscript, which in turn details a documentary of a creepy house..adds to the weirdness of the book and makes you question what exactly are we getting here and what states of mind were these people in.
I thought it was wonderfully creepy and weird, lol, but like I said, a lot of people have disagreed with my opinion.![]()
Well, I finished "House of Leaves" yesterday. It's a darn good read; challenging. But, I'm left with a, for want of a better word, fractured feeling.
It's really two stories. Truant's and Zampano's. The footnotes.......if I never see another footnote again it would be too soon.
Really, like you or someone else said, the best way to get through it is to read the Zampano story and then go back and read Truant's (the footnotes) story.
Danielewski can write wonderfully. Erudite is the word that comes to mind. He really had to schizoid himself to write in the Zampano character, and then, the Truant character. Polar opposites.
Thumbs up, though.
It IS such a surreal book that opens itself up to interpretations regarding what is real which voice to trust (if any) and I liked losing myself into the strangeness of it all. ₁
₁ [size=-2]I also liked the footnotes because they seemed to play off academia and the need to cite and reference every single thing. And I can't help and think about Annie Hall (1977) where that guy tells that guy who's citing him that he knows nothing about his work.[/size]
mhihi:
That OSC book was more like a short story. Only 100 pages. And quite honestly, not that big a deal in terms of the whole meshing of the Ender/Giant timelines.