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I'm feeling that depression all those Avatar fans felt after seeing the film for the first time. Nothing else compares. This book just busted a huge load on my face and I enjoyed every last drop of it.

Avatar was just okay btw.

Recommend me something that will get me out of this slump.

I read Perfume recently. Enjoy'd that too, but nothing beats HOL.

>> No.16148858

Might read for the third time. Good book

>> No.16148906

>>16148653
>Itz uh luv storee

>> No.16148941

>>16148906
It's really a story about schizophrenia imo. Even some of the books biggest fans don't seem to understand this. Read a lot of cringe inderpretations by so called fans of the book.

The only way you could call it a love story is Navadison and his wife. And they're practically secondary characters compared to Johnny.

>> No.16148948

>>16148941
Also can't stand the "Can I just skip the Johnny Truant parts? Why is der sex?" If you skip those parts the book is totally pointless you fucking dolts.

>> No.16149034

>>16148941
idgi is the schizo shit what makes it good p.s. havent read it

>> No.16149084

>>16149034
Basically it's a story about a young sex.drug addict who hangs around strip clubs and low-rent apartments. He stumbles upon this dead old mans apartment who was writing an academic study of a documentary film about a family in Virginia who move into a strange house. This discovery and mystery of the house activates/triggers his long dormant gene for schizophrenia. Hereditary because his mother had it, but also because he comes from a violently abusive background.

Once you've finished the book there's so many ways to interpret the text you feel schizo yourself. So many things will never make 100% complete sense.

And he really goes off the rails in the end, wandering aimlessly, talking gibberish, thoughts completely disoriented. Delusions. Indifference. Paranoia. It's a wonderfully accurate depiction of a reasonably mentally healthy young mans descent into illness. That's the true horror of the book, not the ghost story.

>> No.16150789

>>16149084
I thought the end is where he starts to pull it together and achieve coherence.
It might be different from your interpretation of the outside world, but it is less scattered than his narrative at the beginning of the book.

>> No.16150879

>>16148653
IDK about it being the best novel of the century but it doesn't have much competition. I really like it but am still confused by it. Anyone else think that Johnny Traunt edits more than he let on? And that mabye Johnny is a figmant of Zampanos imagination? thats what I got from it.
>>16148906
>>16148941
Dont be too hard on them. Its a hard book to understand.
>>16148948
I really love how the author leaves one part at just the right spot when he switches. just reading the navidson record without JTs annotations is stupid. If I wanted that I would have read a normal book.

>> No.16150901

>>16148653
What are your thoughts on the ending? What's the deal with Johnny's mom and the dead baby?

>> No.16151140

Bump

>> No.16151152

>>16150901
hopefully it means johnny is going to calm down and stop being so crazy about the book.