House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | I promised myself to only write reviews of my top 5 Fav....

House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | Cronenberg For Movie

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House of Leaves

	House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski Pantheon, 2000 - 709 pages average customer review:based on 590 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I promised myself to only write reviews of my top 5 Fav. books and this is one of them...

So here we go.
I read some of the reviews before mine, and I must disagree with some of them...I first read this book when I was 19 and I didn't find it "challenging " in anyway if anything, this is the first literature piece that I have encounter , that makes you interact with it , to reveal secrets, and to be able to understand more, also it isn't scary in anyway as some people have described it. If I were to warn you about one thing, it would be that when you do read it, you feel emotionally strong enough, because it WILL definitely depress you , also don't get scared by the thickness of the book, since as you read, you'll find out that some of the pages consist of only ten words, some of one, and some of none at all...
I hope you are lucky enough to read this...Trust me you won't regret it.I have shared my copy with 13 people so far, and only 1 of them didn't enjoy it,but not because it was bad, but in his words simply" just, too depressive"

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Cronenberg For Movie

Who else here thinks this book should be made into a movie by David Cronenberg? It makes perfect sense. He's taken on this type of subject matter before. I think the notion of directing "unfilmmable books" really intrigues the guy, i.e. Burroughs "Naked Lunch" and Ballards "Crash". I think this book would fit in well with his filmography. How can we notify him that this book should be his next project? If anyone out there knows him personally, please tell him.

Terrifying, Horrifying and Tragic

Danielewski has created a genre of his own. Reading House of Leaves is like watching a film on paper. His method of writing in frames (as if it were a film reel) is nothing short of genius. His use of footnotes and fake texts had me feeling like I was doing investigative research on something absolutely terrifying. Johnny Truant's interludes and back story are another amazing innovation in writing. The best way that I describe this work to fellow readers is that it's a intertwined three-part narrative.

Perspective 1: The Navidsons
Perspective 2: Zampano's Research on the Navidsons
Perspective 3: Johnny Truant's struggling with Zampano's work and dealing with life in general.

Moreover, this is merely scratching the surface of this masterwork. I imagine you could spend years "finishing" this novel. In fact, you'll find yourself going back to it months after reading the final chapters wondering if you missed anything.

The only reason that I didn't give this a five star review was because of the level of pornographic literary imagery in some of the sex scenes. I found some of it distasteful and quite vulgar. I guess it adds to the shock value but I found it mostly unnecessary. Some people love this stuff but I didn't. Just a personal opinion.

Bottom-line: If there is any justice in the world, this novel will go down in history as a ground-breaker. It's masterfully crafted and its architect deserves a huge pat on the back.

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Why God Invented the Internet

This was a brilliant web site/piece of internet art/whatever, back at the dawn of cyberspace history. Somebody at Pantheon said, "Hey, let's see if it works as a Novel. If it does, maybe the Internet won't drive us out of business." Well, it sort of works as a book.

Besides putting certain "keywords" in blue, underlined type, like a paper facsimile of a hyperlink, there really isn't any reason to kill trees printing this out as a book. (It weighs, like, twenty or thirty pounds.) However, since the web site is apparently gone, a book is the only way to enjoy this very, very excellent piece of intellectual brain candy.

And yes, I do mean intellectual. If you don't have at least an honorary Master's Degree in Literature, you won't get it. At all. I had to take a class just for this book. But it was worth it.

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