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>> No.19641685

>cuck minotaur book
gimmick out five would read again

>> No.19642837

>>19641646
One of you queers suggested that I buy this book for my GF last Christmas. I did and she said it was the weirdest shit she's ever read and it wasn't even that good.

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>>19642837
>Weird
Where it's weird it's good
>wasn't that good
Correct

>>19641685
I read it again. It's a misfire. Bad execution of a good idea. Good ideas, even. It has a good compilation of quotes in the backmatter. The Whalestoe Letters section is as good as the main chunk of the book unfortunately lol.

>>19641646
It's entryism into experimental lit so it's good in the way The Wind in the Willows, Harry Potter, and Stephen Kringe are good in that it gets people to start reading at all.

>> No.19643449

postmodern novels by and large fucking suck

>> No.19643922

>>19641646
Got it for Christmas, what am I in for bros?

>> No.19643954

>>19643922
You're either getting a book that doesn't make sense or doesn't interest you in the slightest, or a book that you're going to fall in love with and recommend to anybody and everybody regardless of their reading background.

I looked at it more like a puzzle than conventional lit and enjoyed it thoroughly.

>> No.19644013

>didn't also turn pic upside down

>> No.19644037

>>19641646
I've got to give it points for being the only book I have ever held up to a mirror to read backwards text

>> No.19644065

>>19641646
I really liked it, but like the other anon said it wasn't executed in the best fashion. – It could have been scarier and the end of the Navidson Record was underwhelming. I would have liked to see more of the exploration/Lovecraftian type shit that was in the first half. Johnny's story is incredibly underrated though in my opinion, and I think the end of his story was great what with the plot twist at the end where it turns out the entire book was-and wasn't-in his head. I also really liked the part where the origins of the House/property site are explored and how it's conjectured that the House occupies an anamolous place in space & time and is immutable and eternal and has always been evil even before the building of the House. It's cool shit.