A review by soapyporridge
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

 I am indefinitely biased towards this book as I did my dissertation on it so my rating is more of a consequence of personal opinion and attachment than based upon the craft. That being said I still find the ways this book pushes the boundaries of the media to be important. We view books to be isolated incidents when they are far more capable of stretching past the limits of their pages and binding than we can ever fully grasp.
 I know it has many shortcomings. I know that some of it will always just be out of reach of my understanding and some of it will make me angry and frustrate me but I am ok with that.

I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of sum’thing has always been and always will be you.

I miss you.

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