House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | Great start - dull end

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House of Leaves

	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski Pantheon, 2000 - 709 pages average customer review:based on 576 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.

Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.

The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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Fantastic

Mesmerizing book. The style, the format, the writing, the dialogue on all levels keeps you glued to the pages. To coin a common phrase, "I couldn't put it down". Highly recommend.

Great start - dull end

I loved this book through the first 1/2 or 2/3 of it. Then it just started to ramble, like the author wasn't quite sure how or where to end it. Even the twist at the end couldn't make it worth it. It's too bad, because I thought it was a great premise and that he was doing some really interesting things.

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