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| Original Title: | House of Leaves |
| ISBN: | 038560310X (ISBN13: 9780385603102) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Zampanò, Will Navidson, Karen Green, Johnny Truant |
| Literary Awards: | Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2000), Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2001), New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award (2001), Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2000), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2000) International Horror Guild Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2000), Premio Ignotus Nominee for Mejor novela extranjera (Best Foreign Novel) (2014) |
Mark Z. Danielewski
Paperback | Pages: 705 pages Rating: 4.1 | 116377 Users | 10291 Reviews
Particularize Regarding Books House of Leaves
| Title | : | House of Leaves |
| Author | : | Mark Z. Danielewski |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 705 pages |
| Published | : | March 7th 2000 by Random House |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Fantasy. Mystery. Thriller. Novels. Contemporary |
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Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.
The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
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Ratings: 4.1 From 116377 Users | 10291 ReviewsAppraise Regarding Books House of Leaves
So there's a definite cult around this book, and I am one of the many who drank the Kool-Aide and never looked back. Here's a little anecdote that speaks to the possibilities of this book:I was an RA my junior and senior years of college. One year I had a good friend of mine living in my building, and upon one of her visits to my room I put The House of Leaves in her hand, telling her that she should read it. A couple of days later I was in my room, awake at some unholy hour due to my vampiricI finished this last night. At about 1:30 in the morning. Honestly, I have no idea how to even begin a review for this book. I kind of have the same panicky feeling I had when people would see me reading and ask what this book was about. I started blurting out incomplete sentences and even stammering all the while. I knew there was no way I could convey the brilliance of this book in just a couple light-conversational sentences. I think that might be the same case here, so my apologies in
4.5/5 stars!I plan to do a video review of this soon, so look forward to that :)
Hey, is it just me, or is "American Horror Story Roanoke" episodes 1-5 a mega rip off of this? Only those that have read House of Leaves can possibly know...As avant garde as any novel's got the right to be! It is all about condensing and expanding the parameters of the novel, heck, of the tangible object. It makes a case of molding the form like clay-doh; a book is stationary no more... (!!)You open the book and a dissection, an exploration is made. You are the surgeon & all this takes is
If I may borrow ( steal from Dickens), it was the hardest book I've ever read, it was the easiest, it was the most enlightening, it was the most obscure, it brought daylight to the world, it brought in the darkness of the night.. Reading the upside- down words, trying to decipher the silly footnotes, and the crossed- out comments, making sense of the narrative, both of them on the same page, well you get my drift, some will be frustrated, the rest amused; good luck...All the above is
...Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all of your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And then for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the
So, I liked House of Leaves but wouldn't call it great or brilliant. I liked the concept of a cache of papers found detailing a possibly ficticious film about a house with impossible dimensions and the maze of mind bogglingly large size in its closet. It was interesting but at its core it was a thin story propped up by gimmicks and pretentious nonsense. I understand that the informational footnotes were supposed to make it seem more real and the rambling narrator's footnotes were supposed to
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