/lit/ - Literature

Beginning to end, stopping once in a while to read the footnotes and appendices.

>playing with the medium
is there a more effective way to make sure no one ever respects you as an author?

>>4789565
What are you talking about? Playing with the medium is as old as the medium.

>>4789566
I bet you don't even use Times New Roman m8

with lots of patience and rereading. trust me, it's worth it. this shit will keep you up at night in the best way possible.

>>4789548
Page by page.

>>4789573
This is the only sort-of-horror book to actually freak me out. I sat in a library one day and imagined the walls bending around me and came close to passing out. Don't really know why.

>>4789569
Arial masterrace.

With your eyes, I would think.

Seriously though I just started it yesterday and I don't know what your problem is?

>>4789548

Reading it as well fellow anon. Altogether not that difficult to read so far (only past page 100).

I've heard that reading the two narratives separate from one another is one way of it having a little bit more cohesion as a plot (read Zampano's first). So far i've just been reading it page by page and switching between Truant and Zampano's narrative whenever it happens. So far, interesting. I don't care too much for Truant's narrative as of yet. I don't really care for the whole strung-out loser stereotype (I live in L.A. and see this shit constantly). Zampano's narrative is much more fascinating to me due to all of his "academic research" and the way he describes The Navidson Record.

Overall, bretty gud. It's entertaining, that is certain, but I'm not so sold on the idea of this being a groundbreaking piece of literature just yet.

>>4789548
Read it in highschool like 5 years ago back when I browsed /x/, shithole of a board it is. Fun read though.

>>4789998
>I don't care too much for Truant's narrative as of yet.

I was never interested in it as well. I still don't really know how his story fits into all the House stuff. Yeah I know he goes crazy because of the Navidson Record and from mom problems and stuff, but aside from plot stuff his stories seem out of place. His aimless life is like a dark labyrinth, I guess?

>>4790085

It makes more sense as you get toward the end.

If you really need to know: Truant's problem is that he is schizophrenic like his mother and reading the book reminds him too strongly of the time his foster father locked him in a cupboard.

Personally I question the reliability of Truant because apparently every single woman he ever meets is instantly driven mad with lust for his cock.

it's really not a hard book
it's a fun book

>>4789687
>This is the only sort-of-horror book to actually freak me out.

The person who recommended it to me said something similar. I can't understand how anyone could possibly be scared or freaked out by this book, it just seemed like tedious, gimmicky bullshit to me. The story is written in the most boring way possible and there's nothing scary about needing to turn a book to read it.

>>4790226

So far nothing in it has scared me. It is bizarre and surreal. Clearly Danielwiwiziticizizct or whatever the fuck his name is has a huge boner for Borges. I've read far more terrifying things on the SCP foundation that in the book so far.

Jesus Christ House of Leaves is only hard to read if you've never read a book before.

Good fucking luck if you ever try Joyce, Pynchon, or even DFW.

With your dick.

Also, this.>>4789548

>>4790236
its this kind of pretentiousness, /lit/

this is why people don't like you

>>4789565
Yeah! Fuck Lawrence Sterne! He learned the hard way that no one respects you if you play with the medium!

>>4792246
you have to be pretentious and disliked if you want /lit/ to stay not-shit
just look at what happened to /mu/

>>4790236
Not OP, but House of Leaves' difficulty is an entirely different kind from what people usually mean when they say a book is hard. People struggling with House of Leaves are usually unclear as to how to do so - as in, what order to read things in or such. Some people have similar questions about IJ, with the massive footnote section, but the "difficult writing" that you talk about with Joyce or Pynchon is different entirely. For that sort of difficulty, you have to learn how to understand. For this sort of difficulty, you just have to be told how to read it.

>>4792254
/mu/ is shit because it's pretentious, and it's disliked because it's pretentious shit.

>>4792246
Not that guy but, it's not a hard book to read.

>>4792260
let's agree to disagree you filthy fucking pleb scum

>>4789569
>tfw my friend uses Calibiri

>>4792280
wats wrong with Calibri?

>>4792256
It's not that hard m8. Just read the text and the footnotes as they pop up. Anyone can do it.