what am i in for?
babbys first overrated Po-Mo bs.
shit that stem dorks jerk themselves over because muh jigsaw puzzle gimmicks
>>25343927>PomoI'm not reading 12 steps of washing your penisHa ha, I shan't! Let me goo. I will not subscribe to Daily Wire ha ha.
>>25343912A book that is 2/3rds goodThe conceit is kinda gimmicky but I can’t deny that when it works, it works. It’s thematically/narratively justified too. That said, I don’t think it’s actually a “hard” book to read, even if it experiments heavily with form and sends you off on all these tangents, I never found it hard to follow the train of thought. The Navidson record is compelling, but some of the Johnny Truant sections feel kind of infantile and retarded by comparison.
I thought it was cool but people blown away by this book tend to have a very surface-level understanding of literature, and thus attain lower standards. This story had more in common with a rubric's cube or a Rube Goldberg machine than a Tolstoy or a Faulkner.
Generally good, sometimes excellent, often stumbles over its own gimmicks. 7/10, well worth reading.
>>25343912I feel it's aged badly and feels left behind in the modern day which has done the concept much better in other mediums
>>25344564>which has done the concept much better in other mediumsAny examples?
>>25343912a bunch of holding the book in different waysI liked it, myself
>>25343912Read the Navidson part, ignore the rest.
>>25343912My issue with it is that it essentially treats experimental/ergodic literature like a rollercoaster. Yes it involves a lot of flipping back and forth or rotating the book or reading in reverse, but everything still very much feels like it’s on-rails, there’s minimal indeterminacy and it fails to give the reader the agency to explore the labyrinthine halls of the house as they please. The conceit would have worked so much better if it was something akin to a choose-your-own-adventure novel whereby disparate parts of the narrative connect together in jarring, unfamiliar or non-linear fashions. Kissed opportunity imo
>>25345640Would it have been better as a wiki instead of a bound volume?
>>25343912a decent pop culture ride on Nabokov's face like a hot lesbian fucking a guy friend for the experience. plus the slight tingle of "cool.... theory"
>>25345643Unironically the best “adaption” is the myhouse.wad Doom mod. I can see the potential in a digital text version that takes full advantage of hyperlinks, but I think that would weaken the immersion by making it too easy to click back and forth between the main text and the footnotes.
>>25343912Looks cool. Going to download a free version tonight
>>25345640Have you considered that you don't have to flip to the appendix 500 times while reading? You can just do it 200 times, or none.
>>25343912A genuinely interesting art piece containing 1 great story & 2 okay ones.Go read Tom's Crossing, it's his best work.
>>25343912>what am i in for?A literal YA novel. It's good tho.
>>25343912This book needs to be put on the midwit/manchild core charts.
>>25346834>midwit/manchild coreYou mean like your diary?
>>25343937i wanna second thisthe Navidson stuff is very fun, the Truant stuff not so muchunlike most "good" novels, it's best the first time you read it
>>25346921i'll stab you and behead your family pets
>>25346963Woah, now you're quoting from MY diary desu, ha ha.
>>25346963NTA but kek I haven't seen this much outright rage on here in a few months
>>25346979>>25346981
>>25343937/thread>the Johnny Truant sections feel kind of infantile and retardedthe worst part of the book is truant's whole "broooo... I'm like, a slum poet bro... wandering through this FUCKED UP world while I myself am FUCKED UP... bro I'm so drunk and drugged out bro" routine. execrable and tedious>>25344368>people blown away by this book tend to have a very surface-level understanding of literatureextremely true. HoL is a redditor's first serious book. this doesn't mean HoL isn't fun, it's tons of fun and I recommend it, but it's most popular among people who don't read for a reason
>>25345709Cool, but doubt you'll read it
>>25343912Honestly a fun read, and not quite as difficult as people make it out to be if you're able to hold a couple different narratives in your head at the same time. There's definitely more to the book if you get really into it, but it can serve perfectly fine as a one read trippy quasi-horror novel.
>>25346963>your family petsYou mean like your mom?
>>25343912original backrooms
