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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ekZeno@lemmy.ca to c/books@lemmy.ml
 

House of leaves is a visual experience! While reading you literally risk to get lost inside his labyrinth of word and columns. I mean seriously

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„ I can say that the house in The Navidson Record is bigger on the inside than on the outside“

  • that‘s free real estate!
[–] JJhonson@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It seems like this reviewer disliked what I absolutely love about it! The format is what got me interested in reading it at first and made it an experience uniquely tied to the medium of books

[–] melonpunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I recently told a friend about it having read it back when it came out. I've since lost my copy, but said friend arrived with one a few weeks ago as a gift. I'm looking forward to diving back into the insanity of it again. It's a page turner, and twister, and rotator.

[–] Guthix@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

By FAR, the best reading experience I've ever had. This book is absolutely incredible. Nothing has ever even come close to HoL for me.

[–] Phoenix@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I read it a long time ago. The format is interesting, novel certainly. I suppose it's the selling point, over the prose.

To me it seemed like there were many competing "ways" to read it as well. Like a maze, you can go different paths. Do you read it front to back? Niggle through the citations? Thread back through the holes? It's not often you get a book that has this much re-read value.

[–] SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Total unrelated note, anyone played "My House" the Doom mod. It's pretty fun

[–] ekZeno@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I saw a walk through on YouTube. Very similar vibes.