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I was enjoying this book and I think I'll return to it eventually, but right now I am not in a headspace (or a life-space) to "decode" a book. I need a book I can just read. It was very compelling, and I want to find out what happens with the Navidson side of the story. To be honest though, the only thing I hate more than long drawn-out recountings of dreams are long drawn-out recountings of drug trips, and that's what all the Truant sections felt like.
Maybe when I have more than 20 minutes at ...more
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Oh, House of Leaves, where do I begin? Your main story is straight out of a nightmare: What if one day you discovered there were rooms in your house you hadn't known about before, and something inside those rooms might be trying to kill you? However, this story is woven between other tales: There's the academic prose of Zampano, who has written a treatise on a movie about this house, and then there's Johnny Truant, who discovered Zampano's manuscript and formatted it for print by including exten
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Oct 07, 2011
Chriskolak
marked it as to-read
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