King Of Hell Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Seriously. Anyone else a ruined human after reading this? I read it in 2000 and I'm still fucked up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 What am I doing? People on here don't read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliserx Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I've read it. It actually scared the shit out of me, mostly because I was so confused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 i have it on my bookshelf but have yet to get in to it. i glanced through it and it looks weird. has words vertical and in patterns and shapes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 Not just that but theres a shit ton of hidden codes through it, text that is music notes to be played, and seriously... you need to clear like a month out of your schedule to just recover from it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHDS Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I want to read it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 sounds interesting. can someone hook up an ebook download link? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliserx Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 I only have the 2-color edition.. no braille, and only blues & reds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 Summary KOH. What is so disturbing about it. Does it make you remember you will die soon type shit or the world is meaningless, or the point of existence is based upon us thinking the world revolves around our creation. Just a quick summary so i can see if it would be worth the read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 sounds interesting. can someone hook up an ebook download link? i don't think an ebook would suffice because "house of leaves" isn't formatted like a typical novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 ;5834775']Summary KOH. What is so disturbing about it. Does it make you remember you will die soon type shit or the world is meaningless' date=' or the point of existence is based upon us thinking the world revolves around our creation. Just a quick summary so i can see if it would be worth the read.[/quote'] This book should be an honorary member of Transcend. Here I picked this off of amazons site and it's a pretty accurate summary. "Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL GRINGOE Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 My cousin told me about it... Said it was scariest thing he'd ever read - I had to read it I read I read I read I tried I tried real hard but the book still fucking sucked... dont get me wrong, it had its moments... but ultimately i spent most of the time interested in the story and wishing that homie reading the manuscript would hurry up and die. I dont know. its been awhile, i remember being utterly disappointed some 800 pages into th book though, and struggling through the last 600 or something... definately interesting though. so much for appreciation right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 I only have the 2-color edition.. no braille, and only blues & reds I think they just reprinted the full color edition in soft cover with the braille, reds, blues, and sentences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 i don't think an ebook would suffice because "house of leaves" isn't formatted like a typical novel. ah ok. i might try to source a physical copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted November 11, 2007 Author Share Posted November 11, 2007 My cousin told me about it... Said it was scariest thing he'd ever read - I had to read it I read I read I read I tried I tried real hard but the book still fucking sucked... dont get me wrong, it had its moments... but ultimately i spent most of the time interested in the story and wishing that homie reading the manuscript would hurry up and die. I dont know. its been awhile, i remember being utterly disappointed some 800 pages into th book though, and struggling through the last 600 or something... definately interesting though. so much for appreciation right? It's ok. There are only two rational explanations. 1. You were doing it wrong. Try again. 2. The book decided you weren't worthy. Try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 This book should be an honorary member of Transcend. Here I picked this off of amazons site and it's a pretty accurate summary. "Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on." Sold. I guess ill be picking this up. Ill use December to Read through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce_1nR Posted November 11, 2007 Share Posted November 11, 2007 ;5834803']Sold. I guess ill be picking this up. Ill use December to Read through it. Likewise, I'll be using my cripple time to read through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted November 13, 2007 Author Share Posted November 13, 2007 ;5834803']Sold. I guess ill be picking this up. Ill use December to Read through it. I highly recomend it, but dudes. Let me set forth the warning. Don't read it cynically. Read it with an open mind, and with compassion (ll) for the people in the book. Otherwise, you won't be able to grasp the horror. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iloveboxcars Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 i have it, but i have yet to sit down and read it. i always find another book that needs to be read, and just knowing what it is i feel like its going to be a chore. that being said i just bought a book for 150 dollars because i cant find it anywhere else. ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski Mask Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 just read the wiki page on it, I'm intrigued. I gotta go find a copy now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metronome Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 looks like I'll be trying to find this on my lunch break tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 scarry books are way better then movies, cuz your imagination gets to have some fun scaring the shit out of you. sounds good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toe Cutter Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 i use to read goosebumps... i like am but they werent TOO scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAJ Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 That book changed me. Big fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaise Pascal Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 sounds interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAR Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 not so interested in the book but the typography is awesome. I found it was inspired by a book called Glas by Jacques Derrida and I went to look for it and found out it was out of print. Evenso I can get a copy but it cost 80-100 dollars depending on hardcover or soft...really really bummed out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Just bought it on amazon and the letters book do you have to buy them both together. Also he has another novel how is that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted November 13, 2007 Author Share Posted November 13, 2007 havent read the other novel yet. but the book and the small companion book( whalestoe letters) are awesome. Most of the letters are innthe book, but theres more in the small comanion. Dude...im warning you. there ware whole chapters where like....the paragraphs are like short paragraph, short para graph, long paragraph...the size in the paragraphs themselves is morse code.....its just nuts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rokstar Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 im right there with you homie... i couldnt finish the whole thing. i started feeling paranoid as fuck when i was reading it... i started feeling depressed and over all sick... its not that the books really scary it just takes up something inside of you thats very unfamiliar... prob sounds crazy but i felt like just having that book in my house was effecting me... so i ended up giving it to a friend. dont know if he ever read it but since then he relapsed on heroin... assaulted and robbed some a number of friends and famiiy and most recently landed him self injail with 13 felony charges... but that may just be off topic. he's actually a piece of shit come to think of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Mamerro Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. This sounds a LOT like a Borges-type story structure. Given that Borges is my favorite author, I'm gonna have to check this out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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