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Are there any other books like this

>> No.6812752

bump

>> No.6812832

>>6812737
What sort of similarities would you want?

>> No.6812962

a humument

>> No.6812965

Raw shark texts

>> No.6813005

>>6812965
Can second that, I've only started reading it recently but so far it's great.

>> No.6813383

A few years back an anon composed a PDF containing photos of random newspaper clippings he glued together and shit on

It was pretty similar

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>> No.6813408

The Demolished Man is early SF that played with the way text is arranged on a page. No other similarities.

>> No.6813585

>>6813408
Alfred Bester in general messes around with text in a similar way as Danielewski. Golem100 apparently utilizes random diagrams, but I haven't read it, and I've heard it's a bit shit.

If you want more House of Leaves-like novels, try Danielewski's other works. They're not nearly as good, but they at least have a similar style.

>> No.6814576

>>6812737
So a related horror book question. Can anybody here recommend scary books? Whenever i look for them, people suggest HPL. I've read his Call of Cthulhu and at the Mountains of Madness, and i thought they were both dull and too slow for my liking. also most of the time he is just describing buildings.

>> No.6814683

>>6814576
Books of Blood by Clive Barker

>> No.6815450

>>6814683
Yes.

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>>6813401
what was with that? i get that the labyrinth was a reflection of the explorer's mental state, but did that mean a minotaur was in there with them as a result? was confronting the minotaur a manifestation of a person's giving-up? was it there as a meme because they associate labyrinths and the minotaur together because they're familiar with the concept?

>> No.6815881

The War of the Newts by Karel Čapek may be to your liking.

>> No.6816120

>>6813383
kek

>> No.6816215

>>6815874
Is everyone who reads this book stupid? I found every "meme" in the book to be entirely obvious except for "delicate wrists", which I still don't understand

The book even spells everything out. Every instance of symbolism is reinforced by a parallel story which uses the same symbol for the same "-ism"

Exactly how the minotaur is the illegitimate son that the King wishes to lock away and forget forever (no matter how much he actually cannot forget), the labyrinth is the void created by Navy and Karen's drifting relationship, and the minotaur is the catalyst (which was like her cheating on him or something? I don't exactly remember)

Everything in the book is spelt out so plainly that I cannot imagine how there is any question as to what anything means. Subtlety is something barely present in this book

>> No.6816235

>>6816215
And there's also, I believe it isn't until after Karen leaves that the labyrinth goes crazy, and in that case the labyrinth is the layers of repression that Navy constructs, and the minotaur is that picture he is famous for of the kid dying or about to die or something. I read the book a really long time ago, I don't remember exactly.

All I'm saying is that everything is ridiculously obvious and someone being unable to understand what something means in this book is unfathomable. An utter lack of inference and comprehension or someone only read the Navidson record and ignored everything else