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Friday, November 5, 2021

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

 

There's a lot of trippy stuff going on here and it's really hard to come up with a summary that gets everything but as simply as possible: 

A man named Zampano dies and the new tenant of his apartment, Johnny Truant, finds a chest containing thousands of documents about a documentary called The Navidson Record. Johnny starts compiling all of Zampano's notes and writing together to create House of Leaves. 

In the second storyline of The Navidson Record, we get the story of the Navidson family who move into a new home to find that it's starts becoming bigger on the inside than the outside, random closets show up out of nowhere, and a hallway suddenly appears that leads to a seemingly different dimension where walls move and staircases appear and disappear. 

This book both fascinated and infuriated me. I didn't find it at all scary like it was said to be, but it was equally interesting and weird, which kept me going to the end. 

Pages: 709