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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

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. Week 1: More Than 500 Pages

* Week 1: Introduction
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Apr 06, 2023 Nicole rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, epistolary-and-alternative-format, horror, haunted-houses, paranormal, ergodic-fiction, read-in-2023

If you're interested in a multi-level, multi-sensory reading experience, then I definitely recommend this. It's not often that a book focuses on the actual physical act of reading, rather than a book being a static immobile thing that exists solely to convey the author's words to you. Reading something like this cleans your reading palate - it scours away the years of regular reading, and reminds you how thrilling language and reading can be at its most fundamental level.

That said, does the stor ...more

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Jan 08, 2015 Adam Smith rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: reading-challenge-2015

There exists a manuscript detailing the events of a documentary that doesn’t exist concerning a certain house on Ash Tree Lane that cannot be found. All who read it are plagued by nightmares and unease. Spaces where no space should be, creeping shadows in well-lit rooms, empty passages in a long-dead house. Once you start reading there is no escaping your fate. This is that manuscript.

This book was a serious trip. I’d heard rumours about its fourth wall mind-screwing, but I never expected it to ...more

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