House of Leaves

[Zealotlee]

Wow... I rarely read books for entertainment aside from a few exceptions, and this book is definitely one of them.  I haven't gotten too far into it (about 100 pages or so), and I'm loving it.  Anyone else read/enjoy this book?  Also, spoil anything and I will HUNT YOU DOWN!

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

GOD YES, ive already started a couple threads on this, the book is amazing.  I cant wait to hear what you think of the ending.

[Compound]

Boy, I loved the zombie attack at the end. I really didn't see it coming.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

although the whole zombie gay sex thing came out of left field i thought.

[Variety of Cells]

It makes sense if you decipher some of the riddles in the index that point to his leanings toward homosexual necrophilia that started after his father died.  I saw it coming like a mile away.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

did anything surprise you?

[Variety of Cells]

Well....

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No.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

oh come on man, i just tossed you nice slow pitch right over the plate and you totally striked out. 


You could have made something crazy up.

[Variety of Cells]

Ha ha, yeah, I saw it.  But I thought I'd pull the old switcharoo.  I wasn't confident in my ability to top homosexual necrophilia.

I feel kinda schizo talking to you in two different topics at the same time.  And yes, I know the difference between schizofrenia and multiple personality disorder, but saying 'I feel kinda multiple personality disordery' sounds weird.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

thats because your supposed to say "We have MPD." 

and is it really necrophilia if they are UNdead?

[Variety of Cells]

Ummm, let me check.  "an erotic attraction to corpses."  Yeah, I'd have to say that still counts.  Undead doesn't mean the opposite of dead, for some reason.  I guess it's kinda like thaw and unthaw.  Undead is just dead + ability to move around.  They are still corpses though.  And I site House of 1000 Corpses as my proof.  They were zombies, but also corpses. 

By the way.  It was kind of silly to make a thread about a book where you can't actually talk about the book.  You better read fast, or else this thread is going to die off.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

or flamable and inflamable?

[EightBitHero]

I wanted so very badly to like this book.  Hell, after reading all 10,000,000 pages of it I wanted it to be my favorite book ever.  Alas, it was not.  Far from it.  here's why:

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I just thought this book was pretentious for pretentiousness's sake.  A book that college kids read so they can tell all the other college kids they read it.  The main storyline about the house definitely had its good moments but the book tried to too much between juggling way too many stories, doing way too many typography tricks and making way too many dumb footnotes that didn't have anything to do with anything.

I like a book that's not afraid to do things a bit differently, but different isn't always the same as good

but what the hell do i know.

[sarcasm_made_Easy]

sorry man ill have to disagree with ya.  The footnotes very rarely had very little point in my expereince.  If i had ANY complaint with it, it was the ending.  I just couldnt stand the ending, but i felt it jumped around in very readable fashion. 

[the long undertow]

I thought it was a great reading experience.  I can agree that some of it meandered a bit, but without that, it would just be plot plot plot.  Usually that's the way stories go, but I felt like the flow of this book served the story well.

For anyone who has read it:

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I read a quote by the author where he said something to the effect that no one has found the correct path through the labyrinth.  I understood this to be about the footnotes and maybe it means that if you follow them in the correct order, it reaveals something else about the story.  I don't know what that could be, since I read all the footnotes in what I thought was the proper order, but there was a point where I got caught in a loop and couldn't figure out if I did something wrong or what.  Anyone else have any thoughts or insight to this whole thing?