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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

Start date: December 12, 2017

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Jun 16, 2015 Amy (Other Amy) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library-i-love-you, art-destroys-the-world, adulting-is-hard, 3-stars-liked-it, weak-tea, sibling-study, mosaic-novel, books-on-books, 1001-boxall, lol

Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind
-Zampanò

Book reached for greatness. Book failed. I enjoyed it immensely up until the last couple of chapters, where it stumbled back into the safe and almost trite, but if you're going to open with the old 'abandon all hope, ye who enter here' (with a less common translation, even), best stick the landing. This book has some big, be ...more

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Jun 24, 2015 Lauren VonLipstick rated it really liked it

I first heard about this book when an old roommate started reading it one summer and was consequently so creeped out by closets that I had to help him pick out clothes to wear for a few days. Said roommate, whom I have the highest regard for, intellectually and personally, recommended the book highly. After having forgotten about it for a while I finally picked it up and embarked on a journey that was enjoyable, yet probably not wanted.
The book's premise is very postmodern, and if you don't enj ...more

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