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It's not you; it's me. I can see how other people would love this book, but I could barely finish it.
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Finished House of Leaves. Gah, I want the hours back that I gave to reading this. I read novels to be pulled into a story, to be entertained or emotionally stimulated. Inherent in this pleasure is a tidy ending where everything is explained, mysteries unraveled, etc. But HoL creates so many questions that it doesn't answer. I absolutely hate books like that. Don't tell me half a story and then ask me to imagine my own ending. I want to know what really happened (within the context of the novel a
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Very clever and inventive and good god what a lot of work it must have been! Still I didn't care for it much. Glad to have read it.
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Probably my favorite book.
Feb 06, 2013
Zed
marked it as wish
Feb 14, 2013
Stephanie McGarrah
marked it as to-read
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