I would like to recommend that we read House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. It tells an interesting and terrifying tale of a family and their house. In addition, it is a very textual book with some of the text mark ups being very significant. While it is a fictional story, at the same time, it touches on issues such as what is story and how should stories be told. Not only is this a book about a story but a book about writing itself.
Has anyone else read it? If so, how did you feel about it?
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House of Leaves
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
http://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark ... 0375703764
Summary from Mt. Laurel library:
http://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark ... 0375703764
Summary from Mt. Laurel library:
After kicking this one around in the horror forum, I did a little research, looks interesting.
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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Chris is now accepting recomendations for the fiction forum. I think "House of Leaves" would be a good pick.
Krysondra first sugessted it, hey Krysondra, want to throw "House of Leaves" into the fiction suggesstion forum?
If it is not picked, we can always discuss it in the horror forum. I am waiting for it at my library.
Krysondra first sugessted it, hey Krysondra, want to throw "House of Leaves" into the fiction suggesstion forum?
If it is not picked, we can always discuss it in the horror forum. I am waiting for it at my library.
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