Pros: innovative, experimental, decidedly creepy Cons: this book is a victim of its own creativity.
Virginian House. 1/4 inch bigger on the inside than the outside. Transformative power. Moving staircases. House has regenerative power. (Note to self-- Great selling point) Pit of despair? (Ahh- we'll wow them with the spacious...
Pros: Everything but Johnny Truant's footnotes Cons: Johnny Truant's footnotes
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House of Leaves is a novel, written by Mark Danielewski. House of Leaves is the title of the manuscript Johnny Truant finds when his friend Lude calls him in the middle of the night to help him with the belongings of Lude's...
Pros: It challenges so many literary conventions it forces (gasp!) critical thinking and analysis. Cons: If my home were bigger on the inside than outside, would my rent go up?
"It was enormous. We dropped a few flares down it but never heard them hit bottom. I mean in that place, it being so empty and cold and still and all, you really can hear a pin drop, but the darkness just swallowed the flares right up...It's so deep,...
Pros: Insanely intricate plot combined with innovative format (if you like that sort of thing, and I do). Cons: Sometimes unwieldy (but then, that's form following function in this case).
Think about actually trying to build a house of leaves. The leaves pile up only so high before shifting and scattering. You build and build, only to have your efforts blown away by each tiny gust of wind. Now imagine that what you are trying to create is...
Pros: wonder, visual images, symbols, experimental format Cons: frustrating secondary story, lists, unwieldy format
"There is no Minotaur; he was made of string."1
The central story in HOUSE OF LEAVES gives new meaning to the term, "home movie". A reluctantly domesticated photo-journalist with itchy feet installs cameras in the little HOUSE' he hopes will...
Pros: Wonderfully intriguing. Mysterious. Emotional. Cons: Long winded at times. A bit confusing.
Mark Z Danielewski is one of those once in a century type of guys. Not many people can turn their anguish after a father's death into a huge work of literary genius, which is just what MZD did. His poetic prose begins with the story of Zampano who is...
Pros: Will Navidson and his family. The House. The interesting format Cons: too long. Where was the editor?
I finished House of Leaves a week ago and am now well into John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick in which, at one point, Sukie and Alexandra sigh about their friend Jane (played by Susan Sarandon in the movie of the same...
Pros: Extremely interesting read, blows convention out of the water. Cons: Sometimes the clever layout and narration is too clever for it's own good.
Be warned, I give away a *LOT* of the plot in this review... To quote one of the great minds of Western thought, Keanu Reeves, "Whoa"(1). House of Leaves, written by Mark Z. Danielewski, is a novel that does it's level best to throw a monkey ...
Pros: words cannot describe how amazing this book is Cons: none at all, other than its impossible to put this book down
I did this review on ebay a long time ago, but decided to share it here on Epinions. Please note I have corrected some spelling, and have added some more thoughts. Amazing book. It changes the way you read novels, and does to closets what "psycho" ...
Pros: Creative, innovative, will likely stay with you long after you finish. Cons: At times, it can get pretentious.
The set-up runs more or less as follows: A young man named Johnny Truant happens upon a blind, elderly shut-in known only as "Zampano". After Zampano's death, Johnny discovers a manuscript Zampano was working on up to his death. Having little else...
Pros: captivating plot, original format, multiple story layers Cons: ending, some slow parts
House of Leaves is an all around great novel. It has all the genre elements one could possibly hope for - suspense, romance, science fiction, drama, horror, character study, etc. All I could do for about 5 days was read this book. The writing ...
Pros: beautifully developed plot Cons: unravels at the end...and yet even that is appropriate
Premise: An old blind man (Zampano) mysteriously dies in his apartment and leaves behind a manuscript comprised of scraps of paper, passages written on napkins and pieces of used notebook paper, some of it scratched out or illegible, mostly in a s ...
Of all the novels I’ve read recently, HoL stands out as an amazing achievement, not only in plot, suspense and psychological manipulation, but in literary form. These elements are inseparable as the strange and original use of the text illustrates the ...
Pros: Let's your imagination run wild. Very scary. Cons: Very complex and hard to read.
After being utterly blown away with this, a friend of mine lent me his copy of House of Leaves swearing up and down that I needed to read it. Finding it hard to resist a review like that, I bumped it up the long list of books I'm trying to read and dug...
House of Leaves : A Novel [Used] The textbook, House of Leaves : A Novel, by Mark Z. Danielewski, available in Paperback. Published by: Random House, Inc.. Edition: . ISBN10: 037...
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