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    • 'House of Leaves' wasn't an easy read

    • This had to be one of the creepiest books I've taken on recently, surpassing even Stephen King. Disturbing in an unknown sort of way . . . the undertones of fear feed on you without coming out directly. But . . . I think this book is brilliant - in its format, its insanity, its play on our fears. Not only are you reading a book but there is writing in the margins as if you're reading someone's diary so you have to really work through and around this book . . . reason number one I haven't finished it yet. Reason number two I haven't finished it yet: it takes place in a normal suburban home . . . I started freaking out in my own house as I was reading this book! And I don't scare easily . . . Nor have I ever found any book "difficult" to read until this one. Give me War and Peace, Les Miserable, Dante's Inferno, Proust, Shakespeare, Rand, you name it - I've taken them all on, loved them and conquered them . . . this one, though, it just creeps me out and I'm bent on finishing it . . . in the daylight, at someone else's house.

       
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    larbage said:
    Oh man! Someone recommended this book to me and I just cannot get through it. The footnotes drove me insane. Also, I kept feeling like I *should* be scared and like they were *trying* to make me scared but I just thought there was no reason to be frightened. So the house is bigger on the inside? I don't get it. Granted, I gave up after about 50 pages.
    posted over 2 years ago
    mandarin01 said:
    Totally understand . . . it's such a freaky book . . . footnotes, house, all of it . . . I did make it past 50 pages . . . they go deeper "down" into the house, it gets creepier.
    posted over 2 years ago
    kcgirlgeek said:
    Now you have me WANTING to read this! Creatively creepy can be an interesting read. :) So now I'm at least curious. I will have to find this one...just to see.
    posted over 2 years ago
    mandarin01 said:
    Let me know what you think :)
    posted over 2 years ago

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