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A review by mcipher
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
4.0
Review and rating to come, because having just finished reading, I am not quite sure how I feel about this right now....
So it’s what, 8 months later? I’m still not sure how I feel about it. I wanted to love it and I did find it fascinating and interesting and super weird, but I also got tired of some of the “look at me” cleverness and it wasn’t nearly as scary as I expected - I was planning to be scared to death and it was at most mildly creepy. I’m sure I missed a ton as I read - the attention to detail is insane and the layers would take a lot to untangle - and I did kind of skim some of the lists and poems and things like that. But it’s worth reading just so say that you did, you conquered it (sort of).
So it’s what, 8 months later? I’m still not sure how I feel about it. I wanted to love it and I did find it fascinating and interesting and super weird, but I also got tired of some of the “look at me” cleverness and it wasn’t nearly as scary as I expected - I was planning to be scared to death and it was at most mildly creepy. I’m sure I missed a ton as I read - the attention to detail is insane and the layers would take a lot to untangle - and I did kind of skim some of the lists and poems and things like that. But it’s worth reading just so say that you did, you conquered it (sort of).