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2491509 No.2491509 [Reply] [Original]

I bought this book today. What should I expect?

>> No.2491514

A love story.

Not even trolling, you'll realize it at the end.

>> No.2491530

It's a pretty chilling multi-narrated tale.

Expect to read a lot of pages.

>> No.2491532

>>2491514
>>2491530
So I've gotten that it's a love story... and it's chilling... and it has a lot of pages.

The first two contradict, and the last one is obvious.

Thanks...? lol

>> No.2491542

>>2491532
They don't necessarily contradict each other, both are true of house of leaves...

Don't expect to "get" it immediately either.. Why do you want to know what to expect anyway? Isn't that part of the appeal, not knowing what to expect?

>> No.2491544

>>2491542
I just want to know what I'm looking at when I start getting further and it starts changing formats and what-not (I've flipped through a bit), plus I hear this book has a large cult following and I thought I'd start a general thread about it of sorts.

>> No.2491556

Just read it backwards (ie the pages not the words) and it'll make sense..

That will savd you half the time you would have taken otherwise