/lit/ - Literature

That's interesting OP, the dream thing. I recall having more nightmares while reading this book, kind of interesting. The novel itself didn't really scare me silly or anything though, appreciated it's creepy bits and telling but looking back it wasn't as great as all the hoopla I hear about it.

I don't think you missed too much by not reading the letters. They are important to Johnny's character.. but I don't recall anything particularly groundbreaking or memorable in them. Eh.

i sort of agree, i didn't get what all the hype was about.

I didn't find it scary at all though, and the bit at the end with the letters from the mom was the only part where i felt any kind of engagement with the story.

>>638467

If you read Pelafina's letters, you'd have learned that she knew Zampano.

>>638459

HoL was published in 2000, but Danielewski started writing it back in 1990.

Reading the letters is crucial to understanding why the novel starts to go batshit on page 97. It's not a novel where you can pick and choose what you want to read; the whole damn thing is important.

I hated Johnny Truant's footnotes and long rambling bullshit, but I think it was necessary to provide some balance to the strict formality of Zampano's essay.

i didnt love this as much as i thought i would

around like 350 pages i was loving it, but before the end i had lost interest.

i had nightmares about stanindg at the doorway and just looking down the hallway

I've read House of Leaves a million times, and I've written a ten page essay describing how side-characters in the book (mostly the names of girls Johnny fucks) are direct parallels to people I know.

People say it's a terrifying book, but I've never actually been scared by it. It's left an indelible mark on me, and I'd easily unhesitantly call it the greatest book I've ever read, though.

The Johnny bits were amazing because it was an unreliable narrator and you had to keep second-guessing yourself if what he said was true or not, but the Pelafina letters made me cry.

My big qualm with House of Leaves is in The Navidson Record: even if it had been such a huge media event like The Blair Witch Project happened, there's no way there'd be thousands and thousands of books and articles and lectures and short films and reviews of Navidson's films the way Zampano kept citing and citing.

>>639577
Isn't that the point of fiction though?

>>639113

It goes batshit on page 40. That's when Karen's scream takes place, the same scream Navidson hears later on when he's wandering around inside the hallways.

>>639596
>The point of fiction
Sorry, I didn't get what you meant, which bit in my tl;dr were you referring to?

house of leaves fucking sucks, bro.
got up to the part where that asshole's walking around with his rifle and shooting his 2 faggot friends and being a dumb ass.
shit was stupid

>>639758

You mean the part where the guy who has been on lots of expeditions goes crazy on this one and hunts down his team in a psychosis-induced haze?

>>639596
>point
>fiction

>>639781
yeah. by that part i was tired of how fucking stupid and boring the whole thing was. especially the jtruant parts.
and then skimming through the pages later on i thought that the whole thing was fucking ridiculous and i didn't want to read a book upside down or diagonally or backwards.

i dont really get why people dont like it i read it in my sophmore year at high school and i loved it ridiculously then i gave it to my gf and she said she didnt get it then we broke up.....
so yeah thats my story

>>638458
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I haven't read house of leaves.

Just answer these two questions:

Is it worth reading?

Do you think it will stand out as a classic of our time?

>>639825

Yes, no.

>>639825
yes, no.

Book was fun to read, navidson record was cool.

Not scary at all for me, the only slightly disturbing part was about the chick who threw a dog out of a moving car.

>>639941
Holy fucking shit, yes! Throwing the dog from the car. That left me very disturbed.