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yeah yeah yeah I know it's another one of those books, but I don't care, its good as hell. imo if you're gonna read it you have to get the edition with the whalestone letters. sort of relatedly I found out that there's an ebook and if anyone has read that I'm incredibly curious to figure out how they tried to get that to work
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my favorite middle school english teacher told me to read this right before i graduated to high school and he moved away to take a job several states away, and it's definitely one of those books that made me realize what the written word was really capable of. thanks Mr. Ingham!
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Apr 5, 2023 18:14
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I own it and I have looked at it from time to time
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Apr 5, 2023 18:36
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I really liked it when I read it back when the internet loved it. The Familiar sent me into a doomspiral when I realized it was intended for human consumption and also the first part in a planned 26-book series though. Glad that failed.
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Apr 5, 2023 18:51
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The house stuff was good, the Johnny Truant stuff was not.
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Apr 5, 2023 19:07
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:The house stuff was good, the Johnny Truant stuff was not. pretty much, yeah
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Apr 5, 2023 19:16
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it's been 5+ years since I last read it so I should probably go back and try and pin it down, but the Truant stuff didn't hit with me either but I think it's because I was too dumb to really get what was going on. I was thinking Truant was both an unreliable narrator and representative of a character as an author self-insert. he's a loving loser who thinks he's cool, actually, and extremely smart and deep, then, like the author, stumbles upon the idea/story of the house which also fucks him up I don't know! in actually writing it out I'm second guessing it because I don't remember a lot. some op I am! Maybe I'll start the reread tonight
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Apr 5, 2023 19:51
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I read it like three times in middle/early high school, absolutely loved it, haven't touched it since. Shame that Danielewski never got that HBO series produced
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Apr 6, 2023 00:17
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One of my personal faves. Have the hardcover version on my shelf. Also a big fan of Only Revolutions and The Little Blue Kite, but House of Leaves is the famous one for a reason.
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Apr 6, 2023 01:46
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DeadFatDuckFat posted:The house stuff was good, the Johnny Truant stuff was not. also i gave up on only revolutions after like two rotations
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Apr 6, 2023 02:03
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Read when I was too young, reread maybe one or two times as I got older. Mid. Agree that the house stuff is way better than the Johnny Truant stuff, but it's all mid.
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Apr 6, 2023 02:16
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This is the prequel to Skinamarink right?
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Apr 6, 2023 02:21
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I enjoy pissing off my wife by telling her that it's just a story of an addict discovering a blind dude's pomo manuscript and then going crazy, and that all the house stuff is just a fake story.
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Apr 6, 2023 03:38
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A thing I discovered that no one else comments on is that the word "where" does not occur anywhere in the book. It isn't even in the huge index at the end
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Apr 6, 2023 19:48
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Heath posted:A thing I discovered that no one else comments on is that the word "where" does not occur anywhere in the book. It isn't even in the huge index at the end whoa
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Apr 6, 2023 19:52
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Still pissed off that The Familiar got cancelled 
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Apr 7, 2023 00:41
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I actually wanted to buy a new copy of it recently and was pissed that the current printing got rid of all of the crazy formatting. That was the gimmick that made the book worthwhile
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Apr 7, 2023 01:40
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I have it somewhere. The cover fell off. Cool book minus John Truant. Idk I got tricked into coming here instead of GBS
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Apr 7, 2023 02:31
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i read it a couple of years ago and thought it was pretty underwhelming after years and years of internet hype but overall ok. it had a couple of gimmicks i thought were cute like when theyre exploring the hallway and somebody kicks a hole in the wall so theres a square filled with seemingly meaningless text for the next 50 or 100 pages, or when truant has a panic attack at the tattoo shop and the text is arranged so that claw marks appear in the middle of the page, but i was expecting more i guess
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Apr 7, 2023 05:56
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Every theater kid I went to high school with was terrified by this book lmao.
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I just read this book. tl;dr - Interesting but kind of a letdown. Favorite things were the unique printing and best-of-SCP spooky house. The house stuff was cool. Reminded me of some SCP foundation stuff, but with cohesion that comes from a single author and real editor. It was a good haunted house imo. Kind of a weak ending to that story but went places. The Johnny Truant stuff was not great. His story opens with him being a cool night life man that does sex and drugs. But he eventually realizes that he sucks, and desperately seeks those things because he's lonely and has mom issues. This isn't subtext, he says it. The pornographic depictions of sex aren't supposed to make him seem cool or likable, I get it. But it doesn't really move on from that until he starts properly going crazy like his mom. The letters (and index I guess) were a boring way to end the book. It doesn't give a gently caress about pacing and I respect that, but it's only interesting so far as it's novel. Didn't enjoy decoding that one letter near the end, which had no payoff and didn't change anything about the story. The biggest draw was the fun stuff it does with typography. This is neat throughout the book. They don't impact anything as much as I expected and seem to be a collection of one-off tricks. Cool tricks though! Like the author thought it'd be neat if this section has widest kerning and is upsidedown, and sure enough it's neat. It also peaks about a third into the book. The word 'house' is always printed in chroma key blue because... the house is in a film? It's neat and maybe a little unsettling, and there doesn't need to be more of a point to any of those tricks. This is the book's biggest strength imo and I'd like to see other authors try unique typography stuff. Maybe even take it farther or let it have some impact on the writing itself. A book that resists being read is such a neat idea. The overall structure and concept held up throughout. A book about a book about a movie that doesn't exist about a crazy house, with the madness reaching out all those layers and pages 'to you, the reader!' It's a neat idea and it does that. Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Apr 7, 2023 |
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It’s really good as a companion piece to Poe’s Haunted about more specific familial trauma and addiction. I heard the album first and really dug Poe so I can’t really extricate the two, but I can easily understand not liking it because I don’t think it’s the universally resonant story that many advocate it to be.
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The Glumslinger posted:I actually wanted to buy a new copy of it recently and was pissed that the current printing got rid of all of the crazy formatting. That was the gimmick that made the book worthwhile lmao what?
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Apr 7, 2023 14:51
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Never actually read it but I looked up the summary on wikipedia and feel I'm qualified to make a screenplay despite not knowing how to make one.
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Apr 7, 2023 15:37
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i liked it a lot, pretty much all of it. getting rid of the formatting sounds bonkers
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Apr 7, 2023 16:46
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I got the remastered full color edition in college thanks to a professor's recommendation. I dug it out a couple weeks ago after playing a Doom wad based on it and found my 12+ year old bookmark still on page 55. Maybe I'll finish it this year.
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I am in the middle of it right now, after years of never finding it in stores and never caring enough to order it online, and never really knowing anything about it past "oh you should read it" and "it's about this weird house". I uh, well, I did not expect it to be anything like what it is. Would have preferred a straight narrative instead of it being couched in this multilayered device of being commentary on a treatise on a recording of a story. But, you know, it's not bad. I don't hate all the Johnny Truant stuff but I do find myself skimming it.
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Apr 8, 2023 01:58
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No one has ever read all of the pelican poems.
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Apr 8, 2023 02:01
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Friend posted:after playing a Doom wad based on it bud you can not just leave this hanging out there without dropping a link
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Apr 8, 2023 05:33
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nm found it: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18Nx7kUQwmxUGoXqL6FiUwFY--up64fgo there's a little story to go along with it, looks like
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I wanted to like the book but I couldn't finish it. The Truant bits were just too annoying. I just wanted to read about the scary house
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Pentecoastal Elites posted:nm found it: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18Nx7kUQwmxUGoXqL6FiUwFY--up64fgo Yeah it's neat. Also play myhouse.pk3 not the .wad Here's a relatively spoiler-free hint guide or the straight up step by step for the good ending, but it's best to just go in blind the first time.
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ProfessorMarvel posted:Still pissed off that The Familiar got cancelled Hard same. I adore how Danielewski writes. Apparently he's working on a cowboy western now? Not my genre at all but interested to see what he does with it
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Apr 8, 2023 16:29
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Just played that DooM map for almost two hours. Very funny.
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I liked the script he posted for the first episode of a TV version of the book which was also really weird.
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The Glumslinger posted:I actually wanted to buy a new copy of it recently and was pissed that the current printing got rid of all of the crazy formatting. That was the gimmick that made the book worthwhile wtf. that ruins the whole thing
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I liked it when I was in high school, but I got rid of my copy at some point (very out of character for me). That's terrible if the current editions don't have any formatting absurdity. I love that Doom wad too.
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Love it. Chilling, moving, funny, and it makes you feel like a genius. I re-read it every few years and it hits hard every time. I have the opening line tattooed on my chest.
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Was just having a conversation about this book with my girlfriend, as she's really into horror novels? "Yeah I think the only 'horror' book I've read is... House of Leaves?" "I loving hate that book." "Why? It's so good!" "I'm loving dyslexic, honey."
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I've told myself I am going to actually finish this book someday.  Sometimes the lies I tell are bigger on the inside than on the outside.
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