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I liked the part where there was only one word on an entire page.

Totally not a gimmick.

>>7868767
What is wrong with using a gimmick? You could say poetry is using gimmicks

>>7867568
why is /lit/ so mad at this book? I liked it, yes it was gimmicky, but it was good.

>>7868776
we only like deep art here

>>7868767
Don't tell me you didn't think the part in the story where Navidson had to go down a continually narrowing corridor until he had to kneel and eventually crawl on his belly, all the while the words on each page kept diminishing and narrowing, wasn't at least a little clever.

I wonder why he chose to do 27 volumes.

I haven't decided how to feel about a book that seems to want to apply cinematic techniques so explicitly to literature. That is, I think, what House of Leaves is (at least in part).

Maybe "applying techniques" isn't the right interpretation. It seems more like the book is meant to be "read" as a movie. That's what I feel ambivalence toward, not least because of the "gimmicks" mentioned above.
I think there are other ways to depict cinema in literature.

Prose >>>>> Plot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Aesthetic

Danielewski a shit

>>7869477
how is prose not aesthetic?

>>7869485
Aesthetic exists on the page alone. It's nice to look at it and nothing more. Making loopdy-loops with letters is no better than dangling keys before an infant.

>>7869485
He's talking about making pictures with text, retard.

I liked it, genuinely spooky at parts

>>7868778
The textual sculpting going on in hol is done with sensitivity and artistry. It's not gimmicky just because it's something new, y'all a buncha neophobes

>>7869493
>not diggin' concrete poetry

>>7869477
Ideas>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Prose >>>>> Plot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Aesthetic

Only undergrads think style is more important than content.

>>7869962
>implying the division between form and content isn't an illusion.

>>7868793
hah fuck that actually sounds kinda cool ordering the book now

>>7869962
Prose and Aesthetics are deeply related, as are Plot and Ideas.

I actually really enjoyed the spooky atmosphere and general story telling. Anyone have any other recommendations that are similar?

This book is a stellar testament to his dead father.