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Is House of Leaves brilliant and intimate or pretentious and bloated?

I thought I had just read an emotional novel, but I can’t tell if I can recommend it to anyone with how much it asks from the reader

>> No.14990654

>>14990649
It was fun and unique. If someone is looking for something different than your every day novel, then suggest it to them. People are generally scared of new things, so don't bring it up unless people are looking for something like it.

>> No.14990655

it's about the same level as an a24 horror movie

>> No.14990657
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>>14990649
I wanted to be spooked, not stupid postmodern drama.

>> No.14990668

>>14990657
I get what you mean - I thought it was gonna be a straight horror, but I was pleasantly surprised with how wholesome it was

>> No.14990686

>>14990649
it was a fun read
>>14990657
deep down, House of Leaves is much more of a romance than it is a horror

>> No.14990687

Anyone read any of his other works? I think House only worked for me because of the characters and simple story of a marriage at the heart of it - I don’t think I could sit through the narrative insanity if it wasn’t for that

>> No.14990717

>>14990649
i felt spooked the entire time. u guys lack imagination

>> No.14991085

>>14990649

I dunno. But I remember checking out this book at 13. My dad curiously snatches it up one day and asks "What's this book about?", and happens to turn to the exact page with a very detailed description of fucking a black girl.

>> No.14991849

>>14991085
You know what, that still requires less explanation than a mess of references within references and red ‘minotaur’s and son why is there four bookmarks in this book son stop screaming you’re going back to your mothers in Idaho

>> No.14991880

>>14990649
Kicked off the creepy pasta and 'found fiction' medium on the internet in the early 00s if nothing else

>> No.14991896

>>14991880
Nice unverifiable observation

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It was fun. I've never complained about another book where I had to flip back and forth between the annotations in the back after reading this. The bit with the blue square in the middle about 120 in were tedious, but the Tom monologue bits were always my favourite.

>> No.14993392

It's decent altfic but it's hardly literary.

It's basically found footage set to prose. Perfectly fine midbrow core

>> No.14994474

>>14990649
Looks cute!

>> No.14994528

>>14994478
*COOF*

>> No.14994919

>>14990649
>Is House of Leaves brilliant and intimate or pretentious and bloated?
Yes