#House of Leaves

[justabigoldnerd]

I am going to start throwing a tantrum.

[existentialterror]

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Total Eclipse by Annie Dillard House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Detective Pony by @sonnetstuck Meme by unknown Words as Mental Paintbrush Handles by Eliezer Yudkowsky Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Elliot Meme by unknown Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Elliot

[specificpollsaboutbooks]

Fiction Works with Footnotes

Semifinals

House of Leaves :

House of Leaves is THE novel to do footnotes. You think you've seen footnotes? WRONG. You're reading this book upside down to get all the footnotes. You're spinning her like a lovely lady in a waltz. People in the Macca's are staring at you and your 20 bookmarks clipped to pages while you descend into madness. A dude goes on a whole adventure in the footnotes of HoL. There's footnotes CONTRADICTING footnotes. 11/10 book. I love her dearly.

Maybe thee footnote book. There are so many footnotes, half the book is footnotes. It's about a house that's an 3/4 inch larger on the inside than the outside, among other things.

Absolute trip of a book.

Discworld :

Look, I *know* everyone and their mother is going to submit Sir Pterry's works, but it's for good reason. He truly is the footnote king. His footnotes have footnotes. Every single one manages to be absolutely hilarious.

Its Discworld. Thats all the propaganda it needs

[afklancelot]

oh yeah since it’s halloween month i can repost this classic comic

[naviofortido]

Why the fuck is the growl outside of the house now

Ominous howled rendition of "Silent Night" recorded in the woods at 1AM this morning.

[bermudarhombus2]

Friendly reminder to check your child's Halloween candy this year, I just found an endless labyrinth of physically-impossible tunnels reflecting the descent into madness of multiple unreliable narrators, each with their own obsessive goal that they pursue to the point of harming themselves inside of a snickers bar

[yekokataa]

[tackypies]

gothic horror rlly is just. aw fuck look at what youve done. the house has inherited your inter-generational trauma and in response has transformed itself into a metaphorical device to track the decay of the family. we're never gonna pay off that mortgage now

[falloutnewnobody]

donating my heavily annotated copy of house of leaves to the local library so that the person reading it gets a 5th layer of narrative to be confused by

[twinprime]

[smokin-symbiotes]

our house... in the middle of our leaves¹

¹This is a humourous riff on the lyrics to the song "Our House" by the English ska-pop band, Madness. "Our House" is considered a working class anthem, which contrasts the bourgeoisie lifestyle of the Navidson family.²

²Alright, while the music stuff is factually correct it's still a huge stretch to connect the song and the family this way. Sometimes a corny joke is just a corny joke.

[theseasideskies]

[goosec0id]

“God's a house. Which is not to say that our house is God's house or even a house of God. What I mean to say is that our house is God.”

[afklancelot]

genuinely can't stop thinking about this person. one of a kind house of leaves fan. i hope they're doing well

[the-real-hank-green]

Pinterest I really don't think that's a good idea