House Of Leaves
Johnny Truant, a wild and troubled sometime employee in a LA tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampano, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Report. Will Navidson, a photojournalist, and his family move into a new house. What happens next is recorded on videotapes and in interviews. Now the Navidsons are household names. Zampano, writing on loose sheets, stained napkins, crammed notebooks, has compiled what must be the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane. But Johnny Truant has never heard of the Navidson Record. Nor has anyone else he knows. And the more he reads about Will Navidson's house, the more frightened he becomes. Paranoia besets him. The worst part is that he can't just dismiss the notebook as the ramblings of a crazy old man. He's starting to notice things changing around him...Immensely imaginative, impossible to put down and impossible to forget, "House of Leaves" is thrilling, terrifying and unlike anything you have ever read before. - Amazon
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The moment the discovery is made that the house is bigger on the inside than on the outside still gives me chills...even as I write this. Images are burned into my memory from throughout the novel which I read over a year ago. Fantastic work.
This book is mind blowing. My whole life beyond reading stopped while I was in the grips of this book. It is obvious there is a lot more to the story (for metaphorical/hidden messages lovers), but I also found the footnotes to be very tiresome (and took away from the suspense), and the footnotes can more or less be overlooked, as the main story keeps you highly intrigued just on its own.
This book is Deconstruction incarnated. It is absolutely incredible.
I just finished this book, and it's like nothing I've read before. I'll have to pick it up again in the future to catch weird little things in formatting or the text that you don't normally see the first time around.
This book changed my life. I definitely recommend it. Hanuting, insane, twisted, it makes you question life as you know it. Hands down the scariest book I've ever read.
This book is brilliant. It is soo haunting, def freaked me out!
Great book, I really dug it. One of those books you don't want to end because you know the next book you read will seem dull in comparison.
Reminded me a little of Clive Barker, in that it is a very original style of horror/thriller. A very interesting writing style and layout, very fast paced. I definately recommend it