I do love House of Leaves, but the struggle is real.

[popckorn]

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

So... Is this a really smart book or just a gimmicky one that wants to appear "smarty" by going against the conventional way of making a story?

I'd also say that some books are meant to be read at home.

 

[aquova]

I literally just started reading this book yesterday lol. I was always a bit daunted by it, but I want to see all the hype

So... Is this a really smart book or just a gimmicky one that wants to appear "smarty" by going against the conventional way of making a story?

From what I know, it's a book with a lot of layers. I think it's the one that really started the trend of doing non-conventional meta things with how the pages themselves are laid out (different fonts, text formatted so it looks like a newspaper, etc).

 

[Deleted member 77791]

I enjoyed the book as something like ASCII artwork lololol.

 

[popckorn]

To be fair, most of the book, the real meat is just multilayered by concomitant main text and massive "foot notes" that take whole pages sometimes. But at some point you cross dimensions and it gets very... interactive.. lol

Great suspense and paranormal book, it is a great read even without the formatting gimmicks.

 

[Fray Guillermo]

I didn't know about that book before playing MyHouse.wad, but that map definitely sparked my curiosity about it

 

[popckorn]

I did not know about MyHouse.wad, which is crazy, I will check it out for certain, I am reading about it now and it sound superb!

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I literally just started reading this book yesterday lol. I was always a bit daunted by it, but I want to see all the hype


From what I know, it's a book with a lot of layers. I think it's the one that really started the trend of doing non-conventional meta things with how the pages themselves are laid out (different fonts, text formatted so it looks like a newspaper, etc).

I'd say that I'm fine with a normal book that goes from A to B...

I mean, the Choose Your Own Adventure kind of book can also work.

 

[Bakuma1997]

I remember seeing a Reddit post where a folk used actual post it notes and a extra notebook to "Solve" the book, somethign tell me it isn't going to get a movie anytime soon

 

[AntonioDP]

I enjoyed that book. Translated, sadly. And the Spanish translator is not my cup of tea. I wonder if you guys have ever heard of Mariana Enríquez, an Argentinian horror writer. She's quite famous nowadays, and in her latest novel, Nuestra parte de noche (Our night share?), there are constant references to a house larger on the inside than the outside, and that made me think of House of Leaves.

 

[popckorn]

I remember seeing a Reddit post where a folk used actual post it notes and a extra notebook to "Solve" the book, somethign tell me it isn't going to get a movie anytime soon

You think you can still find it? I am fascinated by theories around it, so I would love reading the thread tomorrow that I have the day off.

 

[Fray Guillermo]

I did not know about MyHouse.wad, which is crazy, I will check it out for certain, I am reading about it now and it sound superb!

I was never into Doom custom maps or anything but a friend sent me that one and I absolutely loved the experience, better to go in blind

 

[Facesforce]

Ah yes, House of Leaves. It's one of those books that you start out thinking it's smart, you get part way and start reading the latin and German sections, just to realize the author messed up the translation. You think it's a mistake, but you then realize that it's a character in the book writing stuff down in German and latin, so it's not their mistake, it's your mistake. And honestly, I don't like that defense that the author hides in the book. Or many of his personal opinions he hides in the present day section.

I'll be honest, I have only gotten half way into the novel. It's really exhausting to read. I mostly leave it on my coffee table as a conversation piece these days.

The formatting can be summed up pretty easily: The author wrote 3 books, a couple of poems and short stories and then cut them up together in a scattershot method. Anything about the house is great, anything about the present day mc kind of sucks.

It's kind of a mixed bag book for me so far. Which is a shame, because I thought I enjoy it more.

House.wad is a technical masterpiece considering it's running in the doom engine. I always am amazed by it.

 

[Bakuma1997]

You think you can still find it? I am fascinated by theories around it, so I would love reading the thread tomorrow that I have the day off.

Sorry for Necro

Found them

https://www.reddit.com/r/bookporn/comments/8ov0s1/if_anyone_wants_to_know_what_reading_house_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/houseofleaves/comments/oaewx7/finished_my_first_time_reading_hol_and_wanted_to/

 

[NeonKnights]

I'm never reading "House of Leaves" and I am comfortable with that fact. I am enlightened.
I'm trading it for "Infinite Jest".

 

[Sir Auriel of Lionel]

If you like the concept give "Bats of the Republic" a try, just as crazy but feels slightly more grounded. I know JJ Abrams also wrote a book in the same style but I don't like the way he writes his films and needs to let go of the idea of spectacle so I never picked his book "S" up.

 

[Big Finger Jim]

I looked it up and it's formatted like a fucking ASCII maze game