Can we please talk about this book? Despite its gimmicky (as

It's a great idea. I don't know if the execution is as strong as it could be though. It's definitely his best work by a mile or so.
It would get more hype if he had written more books like it.

yeah I'd agree that /lit/ gives House of Leaves too much shit. It's definitely gimmicky but it's also a one-of-a-kind read: it's written pretty well given the kind of writing involved, and HoL is fantastic at setting up an atmosphere. I remember reading the book and being legitimately plagued by anxiety the whole time, not just while I was reading it but even when I took breaks and that is something that no horror novel has been able to do with me so far (granted I don't read much horror). I had a panic attack in the shower one time during the two weeks I took to read it, and I had not had a panic attack in years at that point. I love that you brought up the Echoes chapter, because I think it was one of the most clever moments in the book: like you said, when you're reading it you feel as if it's pointless, but I believe at the end of the chapter following it, Zampano describes the father playing with his young daughter and how you hear the daughter whisper "always", but then Zampano describes how "always" sounds like the echo of "hallways". That part blew me away, not because it was an incredible revelation, but because of how at that moment, you realize that the Echo chapter did have a point after all and it became clear that it would serve as very important later on. Anyway, I think that it is a fantastic modern novel, nothing groundbreaking, which is perhaps why /lit/ hates it so much, but it's a fun novel nonetheless, definitely very interesting.

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It's not his best work. Only Revolutions and The Familiar both blow this out of the water .

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go to bed danielewski.
The new ideas aren't commercial.

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Only Revolution is one of these least commercial novels, much less so than HoL.

I don't get why no one on /lit/ wants to discuss The Familiar. It's denser than HoL and will likely solidify Danny Looskie as the Proust of our century

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Whoa I almost made a new thread about HoL glad you like it OP

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HoL would be more widely celebrated if the printing gimmicks were a fraction less convoluted. It's shit like this that makes people overlook the genuinely great story.

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To me what's great about this book is that you cant have the same experience with a tablet or audiobook. This pages with the gimmicks only work on print.

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Absolutely, it has a really tactile quality. I just meant that the literary community will scoff at it because it flouts common aesthetic rules. If you retained the Zampano/Truant framing device but did away with pages like the ones above, it's a postmodern masterpiece. The formatting is cool, but it's ultimately not essential to the book's greatness as much as the mindfuckery and erudite references.

as a graphic designer and illustrator I find some of his work interesting, some of it very amateurish, like in The Familiar which has a lot of crappy design, but good parts as spread out through it. Still HOL and The Familiar are very gimmicky, you cant escape that, you can like the work and ideas and characters but it's a major flaw that most of the formatting has no point.

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How would you anons think a House of Leaves videogame should be? i know many any here dont play games but I for one rather see a game rather than a movie.