>Zampano's notes>The Navidson household is an existential enigma that haunts generations of scholars, here is a 30 page excerpt from Heidegger on the implications of the spatial geometry of this horror>Johnny Truant's notes>DUDE I got in touch with this chick who like totally knew Zampano and she took me over to her place, we scored a bunch of coke with her roommate and we had an epic threesome broo I totally banged her
>>25207961im sorry, what?
wow. There's like different characters in the book. that's wild.
>>25208033>he doesn't realize t̶h̶e̶ ̶h̶o̶u̶s̶e̶ t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ the minotaur is the main character
This book is trash for retards.
>>25208089oh its fine shut th fuck up
>>25208089rock on, brother
>>25208089It's millennial YA-core like Fight Club, American Psycho, and Blood Meridian. So basically if you weren't between the ages of 17-21 around the turn of the 2010s you wouldn't get it.
>>25208313I was that age exactly around that time frame. Would it be a waste of my time to go back and read?
Zampano's book really went to shit at the end when it turned into the biggest slop with the poorly written house collapse/tom death, pointless exploration 5, and then retarded power of love ending. I guess it makes sense in a meta sense since it's not finished, but Johnny's schizophrenic rambling went from the dogshit part of the book, to the only redeemable portion left. I didn't really care for the whole endless annotation shit, yeah, academic papers are lame and pretentious or whatever, maybe this was more edgy 26 years ago. I just didn't care.The part about not being able to tell fake photos and movies from real ones was kind of interesting, and aged well I guess.
>>25208516It won't hit the same
>>25208792Footnotes are not lame
>>25208089I enjoyed it for the gimmick
>>25208516yes. >>25208313fight club is so incredibly tight with the construction of every chapter and the motifs woven throughout. its filled with internally interesting bits that fit together really well. its a YA masterpiece. house of leaves feels like it appropriates pale fire's structure to something much more shallow and intentful, pads out every section except the mother's letters, and distinguishes itself mainly with fun but cheap gimmicks. it never feels like danieleski knew what he wanted to do beyond "the house is like the book." the parts neither mesh, nor do they not mesh in an interesting way. the horror is unbelievably overrated. there are so many better creepypastas even.
>>25208816It does kind of feel like if an inept author tried to write Pale Fire doesn’t it?
>>25208813I edited my post so it didn't include a crucial piece of information: I never read it when it was popular with some people I knew in undergrad, and since forgot about it.>>25208816Fair enough. I'll check it out briefly anyway. The library exists for a reason.
>>25208816>more shallow and intentfulmuch less intentful i mean
