House of Leaves.

as long as they do not wrest its power
to unholy purposes

yup this is incredible. i fell in love with it purely becuase of the footnotes, and that was only the beginning.

what happened after the beginning

i've read this about three times. every time i think you take something different away, and there are still so many different ways to read the book - the material can sit differently in your head every time.

i already know this house is all shifty and weird. i'm not going to make myself crazy by reading HoL here. *fear*

fortunately having nearly gotten lost inside his own house has for the moment diminshed his appetite for its darkness

Z

[Edited on Jun 24, 2003 by zenhell]

i nice indoor place to walk the dog in bad weather

You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years


JT

I have owned three copies of this book. I currently own none. I keep lending it out and never getting it back. Should have learned my lesson by now, don't you think? Still, I'll own a fourth copy, and I'll lend it out after reading it again. It will disappear as certainly as Holloway. Unfortunately, I cannot avoid introducing this monster to anyone who has not yet read it. So I will no doubt continue to lend it out and lose it. For me, it has been a part of the book's charm.

i've never heard of it before, but it sounds like something i definitely need to go out and get.

I bought this book a month ago, and it has not left my sight since. I'm currently on my third trip through the House

any thoughts on why the red passages are struck out?

I bought this book sometime in thefall and fell in love with it. Deep deep love.I've always been a readerbut this book completely blew me awy, my favorite part beingthe letters that Truant's mother wrote to him, and the spiral staircase that mimiced the golden rectangle..The struck passages were in red I think because of the violent connotations. The word struck has connections to violence as does the color red, and as do many of the struck passages.

I read House of Leaves 3 years ago in my first (very tiny) apartment I didn't leave the place for the whole weekend and just read the whole thing cover to cover on my bed while eating stoned wheat things and cheese.

It put the fear into me.

I was literally numbed for two days after reading this book, I couldn't think, I was afraid. It was just rumbling around in my head like some kind of invisible monster.

Not the best book I've ever read.. but easily the one that had the most visceral impact on me at the time.

one of the best books I have EVER read.
it actually put me into a slightly psychotic state.

I never did find the Poe CD that goes with it, didn't know about it until after I had already read the book, and I can't read it again for a while.

it's in my top 5 of all time...right up there with Vurt and Desolation Angels.

i initiated a House of Leaves journal in the SG Lit club if anyone would like to contribute to it. i am particularly interested to read any thoughts you may have relative to the red/struck passages