House of Leaves

"DNF"

"I owned/read this as a young teenager, had to read a summary so I could remember it tbh, it wasn't something that haunted me or stuck with me, obviously..but I did enjoy reading it and like the suspense. Unfortunately a book has never scared me personally. 🕳️"

"On Hold"

"Unpopular opinion time. House of leaves gets 5 stars for unique presentation and 2 stars for story line. To unravel the crazy that is this book I watched many videos and read many more theories. We begin before the introduction where the page reads "This is not for you." Honestly gave me chills. I figured this book was not for my eyes or any others only to later understand it as this is not for you because double meanings and decoding messages are above what your brain can handle.<br/><br/>So there in was my biggest issue. This book was simply not for me. Not that it wasn't mind bending, unique, and disturbing. It's just not something I couldn't appreciate fully. For example I read a review that mentioned the different angles of text was to immerse the reader in the goings on and also set the pace. Which I thought was really interesting and spooky and it did draw me in but I often and I mean often got derailed by footnotes. So I could only immerse myself a few seconds at a time.<br/><br/>The whole story together with the right reader I think would be amazing. Someone who is obsessive over the hidden details. Really the layout and how each experience for each reader is different was well done. And it is an experience. There are different ways to read this different was to interpret. I really wished I could have been one of those people. <br/><br/>Also I figured the text placement and the ramblings were to make me crazy in return. Just didn't quite work. It bored me making me want to procrastinate and do anything but finish this book. The text was so weirdly done I also found my self starting the same sentence two to three times. At one point I was freakishly caught unaware when I skipped a passage rambling about space or echos or some junk and the author called me on it.<br/><br/>Another review and even video stated a book about a man who decends into insanity. I was hoping they wasn't talking about Truant because his point of few was like listening to someone on acid. Now confession time after a while I just completely skipped his story altogether and felt like I missed nothing.<br/><br/>What throughly killed if for me though was that I was drug through so much nonsense that the spook factor was gone. And in hindsight it was scarey. At times I felt the characters talking to me or describing something that could be in my very room. The atmosphere was cold and dank but the only passages I enjoyed where Navidson's family and the explorations of the house. The surroundings were very easy to picture but with all the babble it wasn't easy picturing each characters which was a shame."

"The only book that I have ever read taht actually effected my life. I became completely obsessed. I had notes upon notes in the margins, notebooks filled with ideas. I read it over and over again. Fantastic read, dangerous even. "

"Crazy interesting and keeps you guessing. It hooked me from page one and didn’t let go"

"a completely unique read. you’ll find that not only do the personal and professional narratives found within intertwine in a completely enthralling way, but your own interpretations shape the piece in a very physical way. i can’t say that i would recommend it to everyone—but if you’ve got a lot of brain cells to dedicate and a lot of time to guiltlessly massacre, this is certainly a novel that is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside."

"This book was a bit confusing to read especially because of all the disorganization of how the story was told. I think that's how it was supposed to be though, it's supposed to disorient you like the House in the story. It wasn't creepy or scary in the way that others have described, I felt it was more suspenseful than anything. I think the best part really was the imagery and the way the author made this book interactive in the sense that you're not able to read it as you would normally."

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"Don't bring it to a party or everyone will see you flipping this book around because half of it is printed upside down. Actually don't bring books to parties in general, this one didn't even do me the favour of making me look a bit smart. Just read the book in private, though you will tell everyone you know about it afterwards. So yes, you'll be worse at parties either way."