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Book Recommendation: House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

If you are looking for a great horror (some argue that its actually a love story) book I highly recommend this one. It’s my favorite book of all time. It has a very unconventional format and it’s one of those books that gets better with every read through.

I don’t want to give too much of the story away but the book is about a man doing a documentary on a strange house and strange things within the house.

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hey followies: if you like the unconventional storytelling in ‘homestuck’ you should give ‘house of leaves’ a look.

it’s not comedy/adventure like homestuck, it’s more an atmospheric weirdness story like the SCP verse or night vale, but the outside-the-box way it’s told will strike a chord. you don’t just sit and read words, you need to work it out. turn the book upside down. go back and reread earlier bits in light of new information. it’s a fun puzzle of a book, and i highly recommend it.

honestly i kind of wish it had been written ten years later, because if the author had been able to do the kind of tricks you can do with web based fiction – like that thing in homestuck where john reaches through the portal and then when you go back suddenly his hand is showing up in random illustrations earlier – ‘house of leaves’ would probably have been ten times as long and even greater. 😀