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TotalLossBrain posted:The best thing [...] is how upset racist man-children get at the mention of Idris Elba[...]
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Beastie posted:I just started reading the series (had it on my Kindle for years) and the same day I was reading this thread and saw the post you are referring to was the same day I came across this line. Is it the part where the kid dies? I don't care enough to dig through boxes for my copy, but now I'm curious.
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hyperhazard posted:Is it the part where the kid dies? I don't care enough to dig through boxes for my copy, but now I'm curious. Yes.
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Yeah. Roland is holding onto him as he dangles over a pit on a railroad bridge. The Man In Black is running away, and he either has to drop him into the pit to chase after TMiB, or save him. Roland chooses to drop him, and he utters this.
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hyperhazard posted:Is it the part where the kid dies? I don't care enough to dig through boxes for my copy, but now I'm curious. Yeah, Jake yells it at Roland when he realizes Roland is going to keep chasing after the Man in Black instead of spend the time saving Jake from falling into the chasm
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Kingnothing posted:For some who hates the books so much, you sure have one hell of an opinion for a 7 book, 5000+ page story. Sometimes you read things in high school, then realize in retrospect that they're pretty bad, man
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thecluckmeme posted:Sometimes you read things in high school, then realize in retrospect that they're pretty bad, man I have a House of Leaves inspired tattoo, for example. Thankfully there's no text so no one would know unless I told them.
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In honor of the new thread title
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fullroundaction posted:I have a House of Leaves inspired tattoo, for example. Thankfully there's no text so no one would know unless I told them. I would like to see this, bad or good.
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That drat Satyr posted:I would like to see this, bad or good. This requires too much explanation, but here it is.  Long story short, my wife booked an appointment with a "famous" artist and I figured I'd get something at the shop we were traveling a long distance to just to help justify the trip. I wanted something HoL themed, and at the time, women wearing animal cowls was popular, and I really dug the general aesthetic. So the idea I discussed with the artist was a young boy, wearing a bull cowl (referencing King Mino's son and the legend of the Minotaur), surrounded by ash leaves (Yggdrasil/the eponymous tree), and the vein patterns of the leaves were to be in a maze pattern (obvious reasons). What he drew up had more or less nothing to do with what we discussed and I painstakingly detailed throughout several email exchanges. I still liked the outline so I was just like gently caress it whatever let's do it. That's my cool story. The lesson here is if you don't like something then don't feel pressured to get it, it's your money. e: I don't know where this motherfucker got the idea to add acorns from.
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fullroundaction posted:This requires too much explanation, but here it is. Haha that is the most un-HoL HoL tattoo I've seen. It's not bad though! There are some baaaaaad ones. I'm a huge MZD fan(bet you couldn't tell) and even I cringe at most of them.
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Kingnothing posted:For some who hates the books so much, you sure have one hell of an opinion for a 7 book, 5000+ page story. And why not? The first book is amazing, everyone was pumped as gently caress for a whole series of that. But decades passed, King abandoned his Bachman persona, and could no longer write "badass" because he wasn't a starving angry young English teacher anymore, he was a middle age husband and father who had actually faced death and didn't find it cool or badass at all (it was in fact as darkly funny and grotesque as he had always written it, he commented that the guy who ran him down in a minivan talked and behaved like one of his characters). By the last volume he had completely deconstructed and undermined everything he had built in the first half of the series, the series stopped being a fantasy saga and became an examination of what it means to be a fantasy saga writer, he even inserted himself as a character at one point
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What is HoL and MZD again?
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Scratch Monkey posted:What is HoL and MZD again? House of Leaves & its author, Mark Z Danielewski
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Scratch Monkey posted:What is HoL and MZD again? House of Leaves and its author Mark Z. Danielewski. The short version of what you need to know is he writes weird books that nerds obsess over, and they look like this:  Rebel Blob posted:Looks like the artist got mixed up on what type of tree you wanted, 'cause those are oak leaves and I guess the acorns follow naturally from that. Yeah dude didn't even try.
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Looks like he tried enough. It's up to you to correct the design, especially if you're going back and forth over period of time. You approved it, have fun with it now. Don't see anything tasteless about it
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Nitrox posted:Looks like he tried enough. It's up to you to correct the design, especially if you're going back and forth over period of time. You approved it, have fun with it now. Don't see anything tasteless about it Yes that's why I posted a "moral of the story" at the end. But trust me, we went back and forth a bunch ahead of time and I was very explicit about the individual elements and why they were what they were, etc. When the outline was presented to me, it was SO far off from what I requested, and I was in a situation where revisions weren't really an option (convention), I was fine with just getting it as is since I did like the design he came up with. But yeah it's not tasteless, and I did end up liking it. I just posted it since the topic was dumb book tattoos.
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fullroundaction posted:The short version of what you need to know is he writes weird books that nerds obsess over, and they look like this: That makes me angry just looking at it.
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Stoatbringer posted:That makes me angry just looking at it. Yeah, my wife had a copy of HoL and when she said "Okay let's make some room on the bookshelves and take some books to Half-Price Books" that was the first thing that went into a box.
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Is every page like that? I think I'd tire pretty quick with having to turn my book at right-angles with each page just to read the next paragraph.
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Marenghi posted:Is every page like that? I think I'd tire pretty quick with having to turn my book at right-angles with each page just to read the next paragraph. Not every page, no, but some of them are like magazine inserts and some of them start getting smaller and smaller and...it's a really weird book.
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Marenghi posted:Is every page like that? I think I'd tire pretty quick with having to turn my book at right-angles with each page just to read the next paragraph. Most of the book is perfectly readable without turning or flipping the book, if not normal looking. Broadly, but the book is about a house that changes on the inside- as the house becomes less house-like the book starts reflecting that with the weird layouts. A lot of the really hard to read text is side stuff that you could just skip if you were inclined.
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Was it HoL that also has footnotes that sometimes span multiple pages, which did make it a pain to read?
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Sounds like someone wants to be David Foster Wallace's stunt double Is the story at least good?
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Scratch Monkey posted:Sounds like someone wants to be David Foster Wallace's stunt double If you enjoy horror, it's worth reading once. It may have been overhyped by reviewers and some media outlets, but it's a decent horror story told in a unique way.
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BjornOfBorg posted:Was it HoL that also has footnotes that sometimes span multiple pages, which did make it a pain to read? That sounds more like Infinite Jest, which is readable because the footnotes are interesting and often hillarious.
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BjornOfBorg posted:Was it HoL that also has footnotes that sometimes span multiple pages, which did make it a pain to read? While HoL does have a few of these, you're probably thinking of Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, as stated above. Also an amazing book, and if I had read it before HoL I'm sure it'd be my favourite fictional book. I love all of Danielewski's stuff, but when it comes to evoking emotions, DFW is unparalleled. Danielewski comes off as super pretentious which I totally understand, but he's been doing amazing things with typography since he started writing and I really think he's going places with it.
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For anyone that hasn't read House of Leaves, it looks like that because it is supposed to represent a transcription of the ramblings of a madman, originally written on anything that could be found including napkins and pieces of transparent film. Some text is literally backwards and when you turn the page it's the same text forwards. Also some footnotes have footnotes. There are also footnotes that are to be ignored(lists of hundreds of random names etc.). It's a fun book but I haven't read any other Danielewski and don't really care to because apparently all his books have gimmicks.
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Calling what he's doing a gimmick is, in my opinion, seriously marginalizing what he's doing with typography in a lot of his works. Correct me if I'm wrong(which would also be cool cause it gives me more books to add to my list...) but there hasn't been any similar style prior to MZD's that has really gotten as much attention. If you liked HoL, try The 50 Year Sword. I don't even know if it qualifies as a novella it's so short, but it's kind of a good followup to HoL, or even a good introduction to his style of writing.
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I'm halfway through One Rainy Day in May and so far it's been pretty exhausting, but I'm enjoying it nonetheless. He is a good storyteller, sometimes it just feels like he's trying wayyyy too hard. That said, there's usually a payoff for sticking it out, so I'm looking forward to see where this series goes. Anyway to make up for my unintentional derail, here's some pics that my local shop just posted:  How does drawing hands work  How does kerning work  
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People who like House of Leaves should check out Alasdair Gray, particularly Unlikely Stories, Mostly. Gray has the advantage of being an artist as well as a writer and typography nut.
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hackbunny posted:And why not? The first book is amazing, everyone was pumped as gently caress for a whole series of that. But decades passed, King abandoned his Bachman persona, and could no longer write "badass" because he wasn't a starving angry young English teacher anymore, he was a middle age husband and father who had actually faced death and didn't find it cool or badass at all (it was in fact as darkly funny and grotesque as he had always written it, he commented that the guy who ran him down in a minivan talked and behaved like one of his characters). By the last volume he had completely deconstructed and undermined everything he had built in the first half of the series, the series stopped being a fantasy saga and became an examination of what it means to be a fantasy saga writer, he even inserted himself as a character at one point Ok, true, you might have a few points. But come on! The magnificent seven recreated where they fight robots that look like Dr. DOOM who wield Lightsabres and throw explosive golden snitches from Harry Potter.
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If she ever gets fat it's going to look like Ariel got crushed in the boob fold.
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fullroundaction posted:
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I think that mermaid one is covering up a scar.
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Heath posted:I think that mermaid one is covering up a scar. Breast reduction? And she got a squashed mermaid to cover the scar and as a joke about what they found underneath.
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"I need to cover an unsightly scar. How about a crushed, faceless mermaid?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whxehyRH8Ec
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