House of Leaves was kinda mid, but I have to give credit to any work that so completely btfos audiobook and Kindle """readers"""

Dylsexia might be real but may as well not exist because a) severe dyslexia is extremely comorbid with other learning disabilities, and if someone with down's sydnrome or whatever isn't able to read it's probably just the down's syndrome, and b) the behavior of people with mild dyslexia and no other learning disabilties is basically the same as people who are just bad at reading, and the standard medical advice for them is just to read more (which is the exact same advice given to people who are just bad at reading).

I know this post didn't reference dyslexia in particular, I just felt like saying this because I hate the disabled

But every time I turned the page and saw a giant wall of text from one of Johnny's rambling schizo stories it felt like a natural place to take a break. Maybe I got filtered, but I took much more interest in the Navidson film and the imaginatively typeset criticism around it than in the bloated "aaaarrrrgggghhh I'm going insaaaaaaaaaaaaaane" bits (although the letters from Johnny's mother were interesting).

this was exactly my experience, I was like shut the FRICK UP Johnny

that said the part where he went back to his old house was kind of neat imo

Leaves of Grass > House of Leaves

I wouldn't call it high art but it was fun and I enjoyed it as a teenager and when I re-read it. I agree it's not "scary" but who honestly is scared of books or movies? They aren't real lmao.

Luv' House of Leaves

'Ate redditors

Simple as

House of Leaves tells the story of a man who

Was a photographer but took this picture and then went into a deep depression. Also footnotes and a song by Poe with a whole boring second narrative that was done better in The Third Policeman.

EDIT— jokes aside, this:

Not only do I like reading, I like books, and this is a fun (if exaggerated) exploration of what they can do.

Is a really fricking good point.

wow this brings me back; house of leaves was the pseud tome of the early-mid 00's. I remember young me trying to talk about it with people who "loved it" only to find out that they didn't actually read it. Glad it withstood the test of time I guess

this is the only novel I've ever seen to treat its book as a physical object and work of art, instead of a neutral way to store a novel

House of Leaves' formatting was very obviously ripped off from the Talmud. Take a look.

Which makes these idiots' inability to read the darn thing even funnier. A bunch of ancient desert dwellers managed just fine, but the average Redditor is at a complete loss.

I did read it all in one go, over the course of a week or two. Lots of tub reading. I found myself fed up with the Johnny Truant narrated bits as well, until about 2/3rds of the way through when he started traveling around more and had fully fallen off the deep end. And you realize he's a pretty unreliable narrator. I was purely in it for more info about the House itself and the Navidson record. I did not find it particularly scary, but those explorations were quite unsettling. I can picture 3D spaces and dimensions mentally quite easily so maybe that helped add to my unease with that place.

Navidson's bike trip back into the house to find his brother, watching the miles click by faster and faster, knowing he basically has zero chance of returning. That was the only point of the tale where I felt any dread. I read the last 3rd of the book basically in one sitting. By far the most interesting bit of the book, House-wise. Ladders going on forever to no end or purpose is quite disturbing. Irrational spaces, like hallways that go on and on where the ceiling gets lower and lower.

I read that book in high school as part of some cringey psuedo intellectual phase I was going through. I'm pretty sure that is the case for most people who talk about that book.

I found it very enjoyable, though like everyone else, I found the Johnny bits markedly less fun. Anyone else listen to Poe's semi-companion album to the book? Maybe that's what you could use as a House of Leaves audiobook

House of Leaves is choose your own adventure for college sophomores.

Oh hey I just read a shitty .pdf text-recognition scan that lost the text colorization and vertical text formatting, proving your point.

Without getting to experience the proper format, my first impression was of a postmodern lampoon of postmodern navel-gazing itself, taking what would become the trappings of stereotypical creepypasta ("I'm going le crazy OR AM I?", chronic refusal of explanation, the weird lurking within the mundane) and complicating it so thoroughly with "analysis" that it seems as if the significance of the described events are reduced rather than elucidated thereby.

We often think about what books are good at vs. what films are good at, etc. but this is the rare non-graphic novel to ask what the book as a physical object is good at.

So true! This is just like the Wayside School books when a character was hanging upside down and they printed his dialogue upside down.

this is the only novel I've ever seen to treat its book as a physical object and work of art, instead of a neutral way to store a novel

So I take it you haven't tried reading Infinite Jest yet

I read this book in like the 5th grade I thought it was frickin sweet

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Hi all, I've been searching the internets high and low for an audio recording of House of Leaves- I've wanted to read it forever but as a law student it's hard to find time for reading for enjoyment, but have plenty of time to listen to books on my commute to and from school.:

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Hello, I discovered house of leaves a year or so ago so I went ahead a got the book. I read a couple of pages of it and couldn't really retain any information. I don't know if it's because I have adhd or something else, but it's like that with most everything I read. I went and told my mom to return the book after I read the same page over and over again without understanding what it meant. Recently, I saw night mind's video pop up in my feed again and decided to try to read the book again. This time, I read along with an audio book that I found on yt. The thing is, it stopped after the introduction. I went ahead and read the first 5 pages of the navidson record but didn't really understand what it was saying. Does anyone know if there's any audiobook of this online? I'd be willing to pay for it. Thank you.:

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