twinky the kid Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 question: will this book make me want to stop getting shitfaced, and letting girls sit on my face? edit: this is actually a serious question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadpig Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 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. you're asking people to read AND have an imagination. now you're asking for too much. :D sounds like an interesting read. i wonder if my local library carries it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milk Grenades Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 i'm adding it to my amazon wishlist..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrebelheartsx Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 i had heard of this, and wanted to check it out, but it sort of fell to the back of my mind. now it's going on my wish list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannosaurus Sex Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 I read about a year ago and just seeing the title of this thread got me creeped out. I think I recommended it in one of the book threads a while back too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VAJ Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 I've never actually met someone who HASN'T read this book. Whats wrong with you people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the flesh sword cometh Posted November 13, 2007 Share Posted November 13, 2007 i had intentions of buying this for a read not too long ago, considering i found myself with alot of free time gone to waste... i needed a book and a friend who was reading it at the time mentioned it to me. i think i will quit fucking around and go scoop this up. he had a blue version though where certain words were colored/lined. i'm assuming the other versions are just a matter of preference. any who, the book seems intriguing as fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 This sounds awesome. Good looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TresOne Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 A friend of mine was telling me about this a while ago but I never bothered to look into it. Just ordered me the reprinted full color edition. Here's hoping it's good stuff.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
After School Special Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 I'm gonna do something crazy and go to the library and get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohnoone Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 i just commented on this in the tattoo thread. this book is scary. i was reading it in july, and getting chlls. especially when johnny truant was all. "today is july 4th and blah blah etc" and it totally fucking WAS july 4th. haha. spooky city. but seriously, really fucking awesome. i heard that his newest book really sucks though. sophomore slump and all that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IDrinkSprite Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 Almost done with the book. Just finished reading the letter Navidson wrote to his wife while drunk. It's a pretty amazing novel, definitely something you have to give your full attention to while reading. The letters johnny's mom wrote him while in the institute freaked me out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaise Pascal Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 picked it up the other day looks like it will be quite enthrawling... Props KOH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eatso Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 only revolutions is weird too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Ok so i got this shit yesterday and started the Journey it seems chill , but tonight my second night i have been reading it with my ipod on listening to shuffled songs i downloaded tonight and havnt even heard yet. Some rap but also some weird shit like aphex twin and other experimental shit. Im not sure if the book is tripping me out yet or the fact that listening to ipod and not being able to hear anything going on in around me due to headphones with songs that make me feel like i'm in a soundtrack to the movie. If Otis redding and radiio head werent involved in the shuffle it might be a bit more intense. I think i will make sure to add a playlist of different music as it gets more intense. I live alone my mom is visiting me for holidays and its me and her in a 3000+ sqft house thats is mostly empty rooms on top of a small hill. So not sure im just paranoid as the heater kicks cause its on auto and the air caused doors to shut while im reading. I think im gonna stop for the night just when the book was starting to make me read on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth MontgomeryOner Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Alright so i started reading the book because of this thread about uh 3days ago, i haven't read a book in about a year anyway so far i'm still reading it so that's a good sign Some parts have pissed me off real good and I just started skipping pages on some omg whyyyy shit I may be to much of a skeptic/cynic for it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 this book is sitting on my table next to my bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Yeah im about 100+ pages into it, but have taken a couple days off. Its something you have to really have attention to read. Meaning most books i can multitask an read, but this one is a bit different so its taking a bit longer. Getting interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 bump. started this the other day, almost finished. back with a conclusive opinion on the thing soon. Hows about a house of leaves assignment for the abstract thread, ehhh? ehhhh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poesia [ ] T Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Im with that that thread needs some life in it. A lil Kick start. Im stuck on the first 1/4 of the book due to overall laggin. Ill get some reading done now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoneTWS Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 ive read it, very good book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serial rapist Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Pretty good, not earth shattering - Its a bummer that a lot of the 'codes' and shit are rather pointless to the overall story ie: Authors name, a very long list etc... There were some times where I felt a strange sensation reading about the house, esp Navidson's last journey. Read it in about 3 days - too fast perhaps? maybe I should have dedicated more time to it. Good read none the less - I really enjoyed the fact that it was just fucking different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Of Hell Posted December 12, 2007 Author Share Posted December 12, 2007 its been a few since ive read it, si i started again. Im taking notes on suspicious situatuions and seeing what happen when i try to read just the notes itself later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 2 questions... Am I missing much if I skip the page long footnotes Johnny Truant gives? He goes off on these weird tangents and half the time I don't know what he's talking about. From what I've read on here people say it changes you or scares the living shit out of you, but in what way? I'd rather not be paranoid, looking behind my back, and losing sleep come Christmas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitting Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 I could be wrong but it seriously just sounds like a massive gimic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpo Marx Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 2 questions... Am I missing much if I skip the page long footnotes Johnny Truant gives? He goes off on these weird tangents and half the time I don't know what he's talking about. From what I've read on here people say it changes you or scares the living shit out of you, but in what way? I'd rather not be paranoid, looking behind my back, and losing sleep come Christmas. No, it's not nearly as bad as some people are saying, unless you have the rare ability of truly caring about the people in the story. It's just an interesting/entertaining book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShaneCo. Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I just finished it... It was pretty good, i guess maybe i was expecting something more after reading all this a month ago.. i must say that seeing house printed in anything else but blue makes me feel really weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 I've gotten about a quarter of the way through it now. I'm at the part when Navidson and fam are doing the rescue mission. What do the long lists and weird spacing mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShaneCo. Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 I coudlnt figure it out... Seemed kind of pretentious honestly, the lists anyways.. The spacing i thought was pretty interesting, i took it as just reflecting the pace/feel of the book at that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earmuffs Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 What am I doing? People on here don't read. correct sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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