>extremely popular
I can count the number of people aware of even the basics of House of Leaves or the Familiar on my fricking hands with fingers left over. Get fricked.
Familiar is hot garbage.
50 Year Sword is great because it doesn't overstay its welcome. Only Revolutions is a really cool gimmick that is usually underwhelming but has occasional sections of genuinely great verse. House of Leaves is solid.
I heard one of the Silent Hills was based on it, but I only played the first two and they certainly weren't
[...]
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I think that I've read 4/5 of the book until they left the house and I just dropped it.
Don't remember who recommended it to me when I said that I loved note-taking in old CRPGs and LaMulana but I just got what seemed like a Stephen King-like horror novel.
I don't remember any details about the story either, just the crippled black dude and someone dying.
>I think that I've read 4/5 of the book until they left the house and I just dropped it.
Navidson goes back
I think that I've read 4/5 of the book until they left the house and I just dropped it.
Don't remember who recommended it to me when I said that I loved note-taking in old CRPGs and LaMulana but I just got what seemed like a Stephen King-like horror novel.
I don't remember any details about the story either, just the crippled black dude and someone dying.
Danielewski doesn’t get enough credit for what he did with the formatting in that book. It’s seriously fricking smart writing and everyone just assumes it’s weird for the sake of weird.
lets be fair, some of it is weird for the sake of it.
He more or less concludes it’s fake. But, at the end of the book, there’s “contrary evidence” (supplied by either Truant or the editors, I forget which) indicating variously that either the Navidson Record or the House itself existed.
oh right i always forget about the editor footnotes. they were definitely the ones claiming fairly early that they couldnt find any evidence of the navidsons. ill do a quick skim of the end because i dont remember the contrary evidence part.
>some of it is weird for the sake of it
I think he runs a little too far with the whole “everything pertaining to a minotaur is colored red and strikethrough’d” and always putting the worde “House” in blue, but it’s not a huge distraction
>Danielewski doesn’t get enough credit for what he did with the formatting in that book.
Most critics are so far up their own ass they won't try to put in any thought beyond shallow knee-jerk reactions. The book was incredibly well written and I definitely recommend it to anyone who's even slightly interested in a weird book.
It's not a horror or love story to me. It's more psychological.
It's weird fusion of horror and general psychological/existential theming, which continues into Only Revolutions and the Familiar. Danielewski was clearly trying to form a series of connections between each and tie them all into the Familiar, but Season 2 never happened so we didn't get to see what would come of that.
It is only sorta pretentious. It’s doing something unique and interesting; it’s not AS unique and interesting as it seems to think it is, but it’s not like it’s utterly cliche and acting like it’s profound.
I feel like House of Leaves is sorta anti-pretentious though? The writing seems to be taking the piss out of Academia at multiple points and the narrative doesn't draw undue attention to itself or its meta narrative elements in a "haha bet you can't figure this out" kinda way.
>The writing seems to be taking the piss out of Academia at multiple points
I love all the pointless fake footnotes and references that contribute absolutely nothing and say nothing.
Because of two reasons:
1. They think that it is merely unusual, not dangerous.
2. Houses are fairly difficult to just leave at the drop of a hat. You're kind of invested.
It’s a book about alienation and frustration, and how kind-hearted people get shaped by an impersonal society into shiftless cynics and buttholes. It’s telling that most people’s interpretation of Caulfield is as a whiny c**t, when his inner monologue reveals him to be extremely sympathetic and compassionate and it’s meant to stand in contrast to his outwardly tantrum-throwing behavior.
When we read this in high school, we had an assignment to write a continuation after the ending. I wrote about Holden at the end of his life in a nursing home - I don't remember the specifics but I do remember him climbing onto the roof and killing himself. My teacher really liked it.
reminder that everything written from Johnny's perspective is actually written by his insane mother as an imagined life for her son that died in infancy
its been a few years since i read it but im pretty sure this is bullshit. in the context of the story, the navidsons are the only fictional characters.
It’s not even entirely clear that the Navidsons are fictional. It MAY be that the Navidson Record is Zampano’s invention, but Johnny supplies at least some evidence that it was real.
i remember it being very clear that johnny tried to find evidence of the navidsons but couldnt. but because johnny is johnny, it didnt really stop him from wanting to believe it.
He more or less concludes it’s fake. But, at the end of the book, there’s “contrary evidence” (supplied by either Truant or the editors, I forget which) indicating variously that either the Navidson Record or the House itself existed.
>Jack Truant didn't find evidence so the house isn't real >Jack Truant
|| Jack Truant isn't real, the house is, and his schizophrenic mother imagined his life ||
its been a few years since i read it but im pretty sure this is bullshit. in the context of the story, the navidsons are the only fictional characters.
one of Pelafina's letters has a secret message that reads "Dear Zampano, who did you lose?" So either Johnny wrote all those letters or Pelafina constructed the entire thing.
That silent hill wiki that devolves into a foreskin conspiracy.
>Pelafina constructed the entire thing.
This, Johnny died when he was very young (he's the child that flatlines in that one story), after that Pelafina went full schizo and , as she said she would, she wrote Johnny a story, both Zampano and Johnny are different versions of the same character, that's why Johnny fricks all the girls that helped Zampano
The writing is 7/10, you have to enjoy the format to enjoy the book. I personally found it fun to read.
There's enough inconsistency in everything that you could make an argument for anything you wanted.
Johnny's mom and Zampino mention each other, which shouldn't be possible. Johnny's mom also has similarities to Navidson's wife.
See, this is what I’m talkin about. People don’t understand what’s being done with the formatting. It’s fricking brilliant and you’re a goddamn pleb for reading it at a surface level.
The only thing that’s kinda pointless is the use of colors in the font.
>Truant says Johnny isn't real. He never was. Only Zampano is "real". He made up the Navidson records as an allegory for his life. He lost his son, Johnny is the fictional son he never had. Johnny is the Nidhoggr eating away at the roots of the tree of life - Zampano's life.
>awful >defined by genre and medium frickery >despite 2deep4u trappings, inexplicably popular among normie crowds
I'm not sure there is a House of Leaves of video games.
>Ahhhhh is that an empty page?! Help me Black personman I'm going insane!
It's the millennial hipster equivalent of zoomers freaking out over muh liminal spaces.
Lrn2pacing you fricking dunce. Authors work hard to control pacing via descriptive language; a book can be slowed down with long, flowering descriptions of scenery. It can be accelerated with rapid sequences of events. You can’t do that when the subject of your book is a guy walking/running through a smooth, pitch black maze.
What Danielewski is doing with labyrinths of footnotes is slowing the reader down; he’s communicating the eternity of wandering, but he can’t do it by spending ages meditating on scenery and background events, so he starts listing all of the things NOT contained in the halls. When he wants to bring Navidson’s race through the house to an accelerating climax, he reduces it to 5-10 words per page to make the reader feel like he’s flying through it; suddenly, the sense that the adventure must be nowhere near over starts evaporating as huge chunks of the book disappear in seconds.
It’s a way of manipulating the reader’s sense of time in the story by speeding and slowing the rate at which they read the book ITSELF because words can’t be used to pad and unpad the events, since there’s very little to actually say about the events and the format precludes any “internal monologue” of the characters affected.
It tickles me that Bret Easton Ellis likes house of leaves, because Johnny Truant's sections tap into the same kind of hedonistic and depressive, sex and drug fantasies as Ellis's own novels.
lol I haven't even read the book. I was just shit posting. It actually is the message?
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No. Like I said if you're being maximally reductive then it's almost what the message is, but no one would take you seriously if that's what you said the message was. "It is what it is" is a more accurate way of reducing the message to the simplest description possible.
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That probably applies to most books
Anyone wanna talk about Three Body Problem trilogy and how the upcoming Netflix adaptation is gonna be a disaster?
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Those books seem dumb. I looked into them and the aliens never show up. Shit book about humans on a normal earth talking. Gay and shitty like that Contact movie where the alien was her dad.
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low iq response
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Anonymous
>That probably applies to most books
Definitely not in the way that it applies to the stranger.
2 years ago
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Chink propaganda made by the GoT hacks? That's a big cringe from me.
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I mean, those books are not at all a good look for the ccp
they shit canned their own adaptation when it was 90% done
then poisoned the president of the chink film company that sold the rights to netflix
>once ask what the Cruelty Squad of literature is >someone says pic rel
I've read shitposts from /x/ shizos more coherent than this book. still good though
>Game uses concepts and ideas of very specific literary works and even references those works in game lore and dialogue. >People still recommending shit that has absolutely nothing but the most superficial similarities.
>reccomended this book from a guy I watch on youtube >found a lot of my favorites from him. House of leaves and a lot of Mishima >he reccomends Pic related >had to take a break because of what happens half way through
Dammit I love you Better than Food. And I loved this book. But was the scene where he kills his infant son after getting back from Vietnam
Yet it was unironically one of the best books I've ever read. Up there with Blood Meridian and Runaway Horses.
I found it quite hard to get through (particularly given the complete disregard for punctuation and dialogue signifiers) but it's probably the best written thing I've ever read.
it's good
like anything it depends on your diet.. if you don't read literature then probably not
it's definitely mccarthy's best work, altho my favourite is suttree
I really enjoyed Sea of Fertility and Temple of the Golden Pavillion.
He's not for everyone. But if anything his own story and how it sort of blends with everything he's wrote is interesting enough to give some of his other books a shot.
Check out "star" by him. You can read it in a sitting.
I feel like I got fricking robbed reading this shit on as an ebook. I didn't realize it had schizo formatting until years later and I'm sure that added to it a bunch. Still, that fake documentary was unsettling as frick. Something about the house getting slightly larger messed with me.
I can't imagine reading shit on a phone, even a phablet would be too small. My Paperwhite is one of the best purchases I've made in the past few years.
Finished reading this a while back and I think about it a lot. That last page completely re-contextualized how I saw things. The house is navy, thus all the 'house' words are blue. Navy blue har har, but more than that the Yggdrasil connection was strong. Navy lost and eye and hung himself from the tree/house like Odin and gained runes/knowledge from it. Basically he had an introspective moment and found what's truly valuable to him. Another part that was wicked was how Jonny Truant was never real. He's the fictional son of Zampano, the real son died shortly after he was born.
I thought both parts of the story were equally good. the part with him writing about recovering only to reveal he was lying was really neat. and the ending was amazing. really just a great book
>kinda nasty and artificial-tasting but sometimes it's just what you're craving because you're a fricking idiot who wants to ruin themselves
deckbuilder roguelikes
No Man's Sky, unironically. The deep lore has some interesting meta-narrative bits that reminded me of House of Leaves, repeating elements and the like.
Plus there's something to be said about the galaxy constantly changing and regenerating itself when you look away for long enough.
I liked the book and it was a bit 2deep4u with its themes but I'll say Silent Hill 2 gave me the closest feeling to this book. Both even had a labyrinth.
Fossil Fighters Champions
Something extremely popular and normalgay that people have somehow convinced themselves is niche -- Souls garbage fits.
You sure are fricking mad over a book.
Omori fits more
Probably the Middens trilogy.
>extremely popular
I can count the number of people aware of even the basics of House of Leaves or the Familiar on my fricking hands with fingers left over. Get fricked.
>151k ratings on goodreads
It's very, very popular.
It's popular the way Earthbound is popular. Everyone knows it, but how many people have actually experienced it front to back?
It's popular sure, but there are very few who have actually READ it all the way through. They just know the name.
Dune has over a million, Twilight has over 5 million, and Harry Potter has over 8 million. 150k is nothing
Howdy, newbie.
>newbie
I have almost certainly been here longer than you, board tourist.
Familiar is hot garbage.
50 Year Sword is great because it doesn't overstay its welcome. Only Revolutions is a really cool gimmick that is usually underwhelming but has occasional sections of genuinely great verse. House of Leaves is solid.
I heard one of the Silent Hills was based on it, but I only played the first two and they certainly weren't
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>I think that I've read 4/5 of the book until they left the house and I just dropped it.
Navidson goes back
Undertale fits better
>Something extremely popular and normalgay that people have somehow convinced themselves is niche -- Souls garbage fits.
they hated him because he spoke the truth
amen
Also applies to Silent Hill
Umineko
Self-indulgent overstuffed bullshit?
Kojimbo games.
I think that I've read 4/5 of the book until they left the house and I just dropped it.
Don't remember who recommended it to me when I said that I loved note-taking in old CRPGs and LaMulana but I just got what seemed like a Stephen King-like horror novel.
I don't remember any details about the story either, just the crippled black dude and someone dying.
but it's not a horror novel, it's a love story
Frankly everything besides the mystique of the house was completely uninteresting. It really didn't need to follow the sex life of some random schmuck
>4/5 of the book
whyd you quit there? the rest of the pages are blank lmao
Danielewski doesn’t get enough credit for what he did with the formatting in that book. It’s seriously fricking smart writing and everyone just assumes it’s weird for the sake of weird.
lets be fair, some of it is weird for the sake of it.
oh right i always forget about the editor footnotes. they were definitely the ones claiming fairly early that they couldnt find any evidence of the navidsons. ill do a quick skim of the end because i dont remember the contrary evidence part.
>some of it is weird for the sake of it
I think he runs a little too far with the whole “everything pertaining to a minotaur is colored red and strikethrough’d” and always putting the worde “House” in blue, but it’s not a huge distraction
Check out “Appendix III: Contrary Evidence”
youre right. i forgot all about the fullpage pictures because i guess i just spent less time on them. interesting. i probably should re-read it soon.
>Danielewski doesn’t get enough credit for what he did with the formatting in that book.
Most critics are so far up their own ass they won't try to put in any thought beyond shallow knee-jerk reactions. The book was incredibly well written and I definitely recommend it to anyone who's even slightly interested in a weird book.
It's not a horror or love story to me. It's more psychological.
It's weird fusion of horror and general psychological/existential theming, which continues into Only Revolutions and the Familiar. Danielewski was clearly trying to form a series of connections between each and tie them all into the Familiar, but Season 2 never happened so we didn't get to see what would come of that.
The picture that in your dreams part unironically gave me a shot of adrenaline. Only time a book has ever managed to do that.
I picked up this book in an attempt to strike up conversation with a chick I was into
It didn't work
Did you like the book at least?
I made it about halfway through; it was okay
Though i'm not much of a reader so i got bored
Then why are you posting the chad pic?
cause later on i found her on tinder with her hair all shaved off, asking for a poly relationship
in short, bullet dodged
respect the guy for shooting his shot regardless of the outcome
A videogame that uses metafiction to play with the structure of a video game, and is sorta pretentious?
The Beginner’s Guide, maybe?
>the beginner's guide
>only "sorta" pretentious
lol
It is only sorta pretentious. It’s doing something unique and interesting; it’s not AS unique and interesting as it seems to think it is, but it’s not like it’s utterly cliche and acting like it’s profound.
I feel like House of Leaves is sorta anti-pretentious though? The writing seems to be taking the piss out of Academia at multiple points and the narrative doesn't draw undue attention to itself or its meta narrative elements in a "haha bet you can't figure this out" kinda way.
>The writing seems to be taking the piss out of Academia at multiple points
I love all the pointless fake footnotes and references that contribute absolutely nothing and say nothing.
Why didn't they just leave the house after the weird stuff starts happening?
Some tried. Redwood still got them.
It was an expensive house, you know?
The same reason Truant keeps working on the book despite the paranoia. Curiosity.
and mental illness.
Because of two reasons:
1. They think that it is merely unusual, not dangerous.
2. Houses are fairly difficult to just leave at the drop of a hat. You're kind of invested.
>Why didn't they just leave the house after the weird stuff starts happening?
Would you?
Leaving when the house turns out to be an eldritch abomination is generally a pretty wise idea.
That doesn't sound like a 'no' to me
Pussy
The house made them stupid
Marathon Infinity
Does this book have an actual meaning I didn't get or is it just a story about a whiny homosexual being a whiny homosexual?
The later, it's supposed to be a mirror for the reader so he can feel embarrassed if he act like Holden
It’s a book about alienation and frustration, and how kind-hearted people get shaped by an impersonal society into shiftless cynics and buttholes. It’s telling that most people’s interpretation of Caulfield is as a whiny c**t, when his inner monologue reveals him to be extremely sympathetic and compassionate and it’s meant to stand in contrast to his outwardly tantrum-throwing behavior.
It's about how a society that openly doesn't give a frick about anybody in turn makes everyone into self-centered dickheads
Holden raped his sister
When we read this in high school, we had an assignment to write a continuation after the ending. I wrote about Holden at the end of his life in a nursing home - I don't remember the specifics but I do remember him climbing onto the roof and killing himself. My teacher really liked it.
It's about him raping his sister, Phoebe.
It's just says Kill John Lennon for 277 pages.
Cruelty squad
Who is the Evan Dara of vidya?
reminder that everything written from Johnny's perspective is actually written by his insane mother as an imagined life for her son that died in infancy
"ecce puer"
its been a few years since i read it but im pretty sure this is bullshit. in the context of the story, the navidsons are the only fictional characters.
It’s not even entirely clear that the Navidsons are fictional. It MAY be that the Navidson Record is Zampano’s invention, but Johnny supplies at least some evidence that it was real.
i remember it being very clear that johnny tried to find evidence of the navidsons but couldnt. but because johnny is johnny, it didnt really stop him from wanting to believe it.
i cant tell if im misremembering or you are.
He more or less concludes it’s fake. But, at the end of the book, there’s “contrary evidence” (supplied by either Truant or the editors, I forget which) indicating variously that either the Navidson Record or the House itself existed.
Stanley Parable
>Jack Truant didn't find evidence so the house isn't real
>Jack Truant
|| Jack Truant isn't real, the house is, and his schizophrenic mother imagined his life ||
you need to go back
one of Pelafina's letters has a secret message that reads "Dear Zampano, who did you lose?" So either Johnny wrote all those letters or Pelafina constructed the entire thing.
This guy gets it.
It seems more likely that Johnny made up Pelafina’s letters.
>Pelafina constructed the entire thing.
This, Johnny died when he was very young (he's the child that flatlines in that one story), after that Pelafina went full schizo and , as she said she would, she wrote Johnny a story, both Zampano and Johnny are different versions of the same character, that's why Johnny fricks all the girls that helped Zampano
Further complicating things is that Johnny, by his own admission, lies about shit.
The writing is 7/10, you have to enjoy the format to enjoy the book. I personally found it fun to read.
There's enough inconsistency in everything that you could make an argument for anything you wanted.
Johnny's mom and Zampino mention each other, which shouldn't be possible. Johnny's mom also has similarities to Navidson's wife.
Bro...bro...they go down a spiral staircase and the words are printed in a spiral! Craziest shit I've ever seen!
See, this is what I’m talkin about. People don’t understand what’s being done with the formatting. It’s fricking brilliant and you’re a goddamn pleb for reading it at a surface level.
The only thing that’s kinda pointless is the use of colors in the font.
>he didn’t understand the use of colors in the fonts
I would just hang myself tbqhwy
Truant says he’s been coloring font in Zampano’s text just because. That’s basically what it amounts to.
>taking anything Truant says as fact
NGMI
>Truant says
Johnny isn't real. He never was. Only Zampano is "real". He made up the Navidson records as an allegory for his life. He lost his son, Johnny is the fictional son he never had. Johnny is the Nidhoggr eating away at the roots of the tree of life - Zampano's life.
That silent hill wiki that devolves into a foreskin conspiracy.
IMSCARED or Anatomy or any horror game that incorporates meta elements outside the game itself for spooks
>awful
>defined by genre and medium frickery
>despite 2deep4u trappings, inexplicably popular among normie crowds
I'm not sure there is a House of Leaves of video games.
Redwood did literally nothing wrong. The Navidsons deserved it.
brutal legend
>half the game is good
>half the game sucks and you skip it
>Ahhhhh is that an empty page?! Help me Black personman I'm going insane!
It's the millennial hipster equivalent of zoomers freaking out over muh liminal spaces.
those pages aren't empty
Lrn2pacing you fricking dunce. Authors work hard to control pacing via descriptive language; a book can be slowed down with long, flowering descriptions of scenery. It can be accelerated with rapid sequences of events. You can’t do that when the subject of your book is a guy walking/running through a smooth, pitch black maze.
What Danielewski is doing with labyrinths of footnotes is slowing the reader down; he’s communicating the eternity of wandering, but he can’t do it by spending ages meditating on scenery and background events, so he starts listing all of the things NOT contained in the halls. When he wants to bring Navidson’s race through the house to an accelerating climax, he reduces it to 5-10 words per page to make the reader feel like he’s flying through it; suddenly, the sense that the adventure must be nowhere near over starts evaporating as huge chunks of the book disappear in seconds.
It’s a way of manipulating the reader’s sense of time in the story by speeding and slowing the rate at which they read the book ITSELF because words can’t be used to pad and unpad the events, since there’s very little to actually say about the events and the format precludes any “internal monologue” of the characters affected.
That's fricking gay as frick because it's being protrayed through a medium that is not literature.
At best, it's something like a comic book.
What do you think literature is, moron?
>That's fricking gay as frick
Low IQ response
The average Gankertard probably hasn't read a book in the last 5 years that a teacher didn't assign them. I appreciate your post though
I read books because I played Black Souls and was like cool books.
very Ganker of you
great post
>'creativity and change upset me, popularity challenges me'
sad little man
Who are the best characters in all of Danielewski's expanded meta-cosmos and why are they the NarCons.
It tickles me that Bret Easton Ellis likes house of leaves, because Johnny Truant's sections tap into the same kind of hedonistic and depressive, sex and drug fantasies as Ellis's own novels.
what is the Dragonlance Chronicles of vidya?
Neverwinter
The navidson family part is the only good part of the book and more than half of it is spent on some drug-addicted homosexual.
I can't think of any vidya made by israelites and formatted like the Talmud.
Probably because you can't think at all.
>game protagonist is literally you
>you have to love your mother because...WELL YOU JUST HAVE TO OK!
Camus is a momma's boy homosexual.
t. Kafka Gang
not the message of the book at all btw
The message is be yourself.
In some extremely reductive sense I guess that's partly accurate.
lol I haven't even read the book. I was just shit posting. It actually is the message?
No. Like I said if you're being maximally reductive then it's almost what the message is, but no one would take you seriously if that's what you said the message was. "It is what it is" is a more accurate way of reducing the message to the simplest description possible.
That probably applies to most books
Anyone wanna talk about Three Body Problem trilogy and how the upcoming Netflix adaptation is gonna be a disaster?
Those books seem dumb. I looked into them and the aliens never show up. Shit book about humans on a normal earth talking. Gay and shitty like that Contact movie where the alien was her dad.
low iq response
>That probably applies to most books
Definitely not in the way that it applies to the stranger.
Chink propaganda made by the GoT hacks? That's a big cringe from me.
I mean, those books are not at all a good look for the ccp
they shit canned their own adaptation when it was 90% done
then poisoned the president of the chink film company that sold the rights to netflix
>once ask what the Cruelty Squad of literature is
>someone says pic rel
I've read shitposts from /x/ shizos more coherent than this book. still good though
>Game uses concepts and ideas of very specific literary works and even references those works in game lore and dialogue.
>People still recommending shit that has absolutely nothing but the most superficial similarities.
Read Bataille.
>mfw reading his other books
>mfw finding out its literally a shared universe with francis e dec
>mfw watching this
In terms of quality: Disco Elysium. Not even memeing.
In terms of gameplay: Probably some shitty "liminal spaces" game.
what's the savage detectives of vidya?
Chespirito wrote books?
different spic
Are the memes that the book is impossible to read in ebook form true and it has to be paperback or can I just grab the ebook?
More like House of Snooze
ooooohh so a house is sort of like an open book upside down and the leaves are the pages, smart!
Probably the Stanley Parable or Inscryption. Both are nontraditional storytelling through their respective mediums and deal with mental illness
Stanley Parable
>reccomended this book from a guy I watch on youtube
>found a lot of my favorites from him. House of leaves and a lot of Mishima
>he reccomends Pic related
>had to take a break because of what happens half way through
Dammit I love you Better than Food. And I loved this book. But was the scene where he kills his infant son after getting back from Vietnam
Yet it was unironically one of the best books I've ever read. Up there with Blood Meridian and Runaway Horses.
>Better than Food
Based. Only book channel worth a shit.
>Blood Meridian
Is that actually good or is it just a Ganker meme?
its good
It's unironically probably the best written book of the last 40 years.
It's not exactly a commitment and will have you thinking about it months after finishing it.
Read The Road or Child of God before though. Or just watch No Country for Old Men. It ruined every other McCarthy novel.
>Read The Road or Child of God before though
Why?
It ruins every other book by him. It's so good nothing else compares.
I found it quite hard to get through (particularly given the complete disregard for punctuation and dialogue signifiers) but it's probably the best written thing I've ever read.
it's good
like anything it depends on your diet.. if you don't read literature then probably not
it's definitely mccarthy's best work, altho my favourite is suttree
>Mishima
I hated Confessions of a Mask. Are any of his other books any good and not gay erotica?
I really enjoyed Sea of Fertility and Temple of the Golden Pavillion.
He's not for everyone. But if anything his own story and how it sort of blends with everything he's wrote is interesting enough to give some of his other books a shot.
Check out "star" by him. You can read it in a sitting.
They're all gay erotica in a sense
What's the video game equivalent of this? (as in, what is the greatest game of all time)
I feel like I got fricking robbed reading this shit on as an ebook. I didn't realize it had schizo formatting until years later and I'm sure that added to it a bunch. Still, that fake documentary was unsettling as frick. Something about the house getting slightly larger messed with me.
Frick buying a book. I'm going to read it on my phone and hate it.
I can't imagine reading shit on a phone, even a phablet would be too small. My Paperwhite is one of the best purchases I've made in the past few years.
Finished reading this a while back and I think about it a lot. That last page completely re-contextualized how I saw things.
The house is navy, thus all the 'house' words are blue. Navy blue har har, but more than that the Yggdrasil connection was strong. Navy lost and eye and hung himself from the tree/house like Odin and gained runes/knowledge from it. Basically he had an introspective moment and found what's truly valuable to him.
Another part that was wicked was how Jonny Truant was never real. He's the fictional son of Zampano, the real son died shortly after he was born.
I immediately think of Snowing when I hear of this book.
It's pretty much just a boring creepypasta in book form so I guess Slender or that SCP game or some other similar trash.
Nobody's gonna say Superliminal?
Yume Nikki
The Navidson House stuff was good, but the Johnny Truant parts were garbage.
I thought both parts of the story were equally good. the part with him writing about recovering only to reveal he was lying was really neat. and the ending was amazing. really just a great book
What is the Galliker's Blue Raspberry Drink of video games?
ratz instagib
>kinda nasty and artificial-tasting but sometimes it's just what you're craving because you're a fricking idiot who wants to ruin themselves
deckbuilder roguelikes
Shadow of Memories
The only real choice
No Man's Sky, unironically. The deep lore has some interesting meta-narrative bits that reminded me of House of Leaves, repeating elements and the like.
Plus there's something to be said about the galaxy constantly changing and regenerating itself when you look away for long enough.
>didn't actually eat his liver
I was very disappointed. Any books you would recommend if I liked this one?
I liked the book and it was a bit 2deep4u with its themes but I'll say Silent Hill 2 gave me the closest feeling to this book. Both even had a labyrinth.
The book was fun. It’s not perfect, but at least tries and mostly succeeds at bei by different. Better than other schizocore like what Joyce shat out
whats the john dies at the end of video games?
YIIK is directly inspired by House of Leaves and between the unreliable narrator and the ONISM cipher, it definitely shows it.
>Ganker is better at discussing books than it is at video games
I mean, low bar to clear, but still