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Odd that it comes from a book, but chapter 3 (i think?) of House Of Leaves has a great set up to a scare at the end that takes the house from odd curiosity to a very real looming threat for the first time.
When Navidson and his family come back from a trip, they find this odd new walk in closet addition connecting the kid's room and the master bedroom that was not there before. He starts pouring over the blueprints of the house and taking measurements and finds that the house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside by 1/4's of an inch. No mater what he does, he cannot get his measurements to agree with each other. His partner Karen wants to just leave it be, but Navidson grows adamant to figure out what is going on, going as far as to call in a favor to borrow the most accurate tool possible from a local university.
While Navidson and his brother are picking that up, Karen and her friend take the opportunity to build a bookshelf in the master bedroom, using the two opposing walls as bookends, describing a domino effect stopping at the wall when a book is removed. Later Navidson and his brother run the machine to measure the room and to everyone's relief, there is no more 1/4 inch discrepancy. They run it one more time just for shits and giggles at which point Navidson's brother grabs a book off the shelf to prop a door open. This causes the remaining books to fall over onto the ground, revealing a full foot gap between the wall and the end of the bookshelf which is lost upon everyone but Karen. It wasn't faulty tools or bad math. The house can change, and it can change whenever the hell it wants.
I'll also take this opportunity to tell you to read House of Leaves it's really fucking good.
I’ve been on an audiobook kick as of late, since I enjoy horror podcasts so much I figured I’d really enjoy books as well and so far they’ve been a lot of fun to check out. Especially with Audible’s Plus catalogue with a ton of free books to listen to. I also have enjoyed found footage horror films, which kind of blends documentaries and movies, two things I’ve been enjoying. So that’s why Lake Mungo was a great recent watch for me, it has such a huge payoff at the end of the film, I really enjoyed it. Also, as far as books go, have you checked out House of Leaves? I’ve heard really good things about it, but also that you need to read the physical copy of the book because of the way it’s written, some pages are written in different colors, or upside down, or things like that and you really need to check it out in person because of that touch on it. I can’t wait to check it out at some point, it sounds so good.
Ugh. so many unanswered questions. Also, i LOVED the movie when I saw it, but the book bore almost no resemblance. I understand why they did the movie the way they did. I basically have to tell myself that the movie is one of the other expeditions and that Area X rendered differently for that group.
If you've never read House of Leaves, you really should. Tons of resemblance between this and the Area X series. And the book itself is a work of art.
Ah, the Goosebumps series was amazing. The choose your own books were the best. For some reason, that blew my mind; being able to creep through pages and jump around the book and have multiple stories was fascinating to me. One book I read that had the same reading game adventure was House of Leaves . I actually was able to find it at my local library a few years ago, so I say try there if you want to give it a read. Altgough, when I went to check it out again a few months ago, they didn't have it in (wasn't even in the system anymore).
Dude this is some house of leaves shit! If you’re going to read that book, definitely get it in print not on Kindle.
Dude this is some house of leaves shit! If you’re going to read that book, definitely get it in print not on Kindle.
https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764
It’s a fantastic read, I’m personally thinking of reading it again after I finish Salem’s Lot. Sorry you couldn’t find it digitally but I can assure you the physical copy is worth it.
This is a book you want a physical copy of. However, you can find a pirated digital copy if you so wish to, but you can get it on Amazon for $15 and it’s well worth the purchase. Here’s a link:
My favorite book is House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. It's a cerebral, disorienting psychological thriller of a novel about a house that becomes larger on the inside than it is on the outside. It's definitely not a book for everyone--Danielewski likes to play with formatting and the very structure of a novel, so you'll have entire footnotes that are stories in themselves, words zig-zagging across pages, or parts of the story printed backwards so you'll need to use a mirror to read them. But where in plenty of other books this might be gimmicky, in House of Leaves it's incredibly well-executed and ties in smartly to the narration. If you're looking for something bizarre to read that'll keep you up at night thinking about it, I wholeheartedly recommend it.
Try reading House of Leaves. Lots of jumping around.^1 Lots of format screw: sidways or upside-down text, text in geometric shapes, one word per page, etc. Lots of hidden clues and easter eggs. Plus it's a pretty bizarre, surreal, suspenseful story in itself. It made for a much more dynamic reading experience.
^1 Half the story is told in footnotes.^2
^2 And there are footnotes to footnotes to footnotes.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
This is brought up every single time a horror book thread is mentioned anywhere on Reddit, I've been dying to read it for years, simply can't find it in stores though (I prefer brick and mortar to online). I think I'll have to get it now, people have said it bothers them years later which is hard for me to believe, still an amazing review though. I know almost nothing about this book other than its scary, I'm doing my best to keep it that way before I indulge in it (which is difficult, because I always dive head first into spoilers when I can).
https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764 (In case anyone else wants to read it)
Edit: It just came in the mail, Wooo.
Have you tried House of Leaves?
Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves.
If you ever get a definitive answer, you should PM me it. :P
And if you really love stories like this one, where you can get lost in trying to make a dozen theories, can I recommend House of Leaves? That story messed me up something fierce for a few weeks.
Good ending! I like to see a writer go for something powerful.
Anyway, a few more observation:
Watch your tense! Settle on a tense, either past or present, and stick with it all the way through to the end of the story. I noticed a little flip-flopping going on and it was a bit distracting.
Try to avoid phrases like "this squirrel" or "our friend." Just refer to him as "the squirrel" or "he" and it will read much more smoothly.
I have to say, I do like the repetition of theme! The first conflict, bidding him against another male, threatening his purpose to procreate but eventually impregnating the female, coupled with the second, overcoming the danger of fire and death and the planting of the seed, works very well. You have a good eye for repetitive underlying themes, try to always do this in your work!
I'm glad you posted this second half! Originally I said that I felt like this work felt like the beginning of a story and this was definitely a good conclusion.
One last thing.
When the story calls for it, ignore all of the advice I just gave you. Writing is a creative process. Standard, universal rule do help build the foundation, but after that, the choice of what you wish to create is up to you. (Grab a copy of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski to truly see what it means to laugh in the face of standard writing rules.)
If I had an eReader I would definitely be purchasing two of each book... But it is worth it, because I prefer physical books, but some can get so heavy. There is one book I'm reading currently, House of Leaves, and I don't think it would do so well on an eReader due to how it is written. Some pages are upside down, or have a single word on them, or things scribbled out, etc. I'm sure there are others like this out there!
sigh uh, yeah, there's a lot more about this particular, very real phenomenon. op, are you a FAN of accounts of these maze/place/phenomenon things? because this guy Danielewski collected data on another one about fifteen years ago. idk why amazon has his data filed under FICTION, but you should probably check it out:
House of Leaves is a "horror" book in only the strictest sense - it has an overall impending sense of doom, but the horror elements are only really emphasized in a few segments of the book.
What makes the book so damn good is that it takes the concept of a traditional narrative and turns it completely on its head. It's certainly not the first book to do this, but it's done in such a convincing and seamless manner that it's really a sight to behold.
(To put it in perspective, the book is a letter to the reader, from a narrator, who is telling his story about his life after finding a manuscript, which is another portion of the book, and the manuscript is based upon a film that may or may not exist, so at times the manuscript is effectively narrating the action from the film. Even the fonts used and orientation on the pages become part of the storytelling.)
I recommend House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
It encompasses everything you're looking for and in a book including a junkie, a couple of people going crazy, a house plagued by seemingly supernatural occurrences, and is overall a creepy book. Frankly it surprises me that I'm the first one to mention it. This is Reddit, right!?
Here are a few things that might not appeal to you in regards to House of Leaves. It's 709 pages long. The entirety of one character's story is told in the footnotes that are on nearly every page. The layout of the text in some chapters is literally all over the place and can be tricky to read, it mimics what some of the characters go through while exploring said house.
Overall I enjoyed this book thoroughly and recommend it at every opportunity.
I'm not going to lie...I was about to downvote then comment about how I used to say the exact. same. thing. and that you should give the Kindle a shot...
...but I followed the link first and discovered something funny-ish. I'm just bummed that my favourite book isn't available on Kindle.
Surprised nobody has mentioned House of Leaves which seems to be exactly what you're looking for. It's often been called the literary equivalent of the Blair Witch Project a comparison some may consider less than flattering but I personally think is pretty apt.
Indeed. Interesting note: The book House of Leaves has a character who took this photo - He was haunted by it.
Good question. I think playing with form and layout can be used for effect (See House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski) - Sort of a way of interacting with the reader that is exterior to the narrative, perhaps.
The hardest thing for you to accept is just how harmful a parent's love can be. I know from experience.
House of Leaves
Tells the story better than I could, but maybe you'll find resolution inside those dark hallways.
Sounds a bit like House of Leaves. Talk about a weird, non-linear book with footnotes galore.
Amazon has the "Look Inside" for HoL, which lets you do a text search: https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764/
Could it be "House of Leaves," by Mark Danielewski?
https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764
The book that changed my life was House of Leaves because it was such a mindfuck reading the entire thing through, I had to put it on pause multiple times. I couldn't sleep, it got to me. It just changed the entire reading experience with me and showed me all the possibilities that a book could be. There are sections of this book I found so surprising and affecting that I had to put it down and give myself a minute to take in what I'd read and go over it in my mind. The book is....a labyrinth to say the least. I can't explain it, this book just has a way of crawling beneath your skin and taking root. I know you said you're looking to buy a kindle, but this is definitely a book a recommend of physical copy of.
Try House of Leaves. Easily the most challenging book I've ever read.
I would second the idea of reading the Silmarillion in sections. It's too much for one sitting.
Found this gem Re-Designation , by the talented justanotherStonyfan a year or so ago
One has to download it as a pdf, because the way they formatted the fic just doesn't work on ao3, and honestly, props to that.
Allow me to gush for a second:
It is a Bucky Barnes (as the Winter Soldier) fic, in which Hydra had been medically testing several types of diseases on him, in the form of a lab report.
The author made up documents, foto copies, data, included charts, wrote letters with stamps and signatures, blacked out names, added the logbook and it just baffles my mind how on earth they pulled such a masterpiece off. The format breaks completely off as the character starts to hallucinate, there are barely readable, fading words all over the page and it is just amazing. It gives off slight House of Leaves vibes and honestly, I just consider it a work of pure art in terms of story telling.
Read the house of leaves.. it will make sense then...
There IS a story set in the House.
The following is just my own headcanon regarding Tzeentch but it's how I always felt a force of trickery, hidden knowledge, and altered reality would operate.
Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh....all in your face, jump-scares, gore and torture porn. Yes, its shocking and you're afraid of the imminent threat but it's purely physical the same way you'd be scared of a tiger, shark, zombie or ebola outbreak. While they can corrupt you, primarily, they represent a threat to life and limb.
Tzeentch represents a threat to your mind, sense of self and very understanding of reality.
He's that feeling when you're alone in your home late at night, that there might be something just over your shoulder watching you, waiting for you to turn around. That outside your window something might be getting steadily closer and closer until it stands there, just waiting for you to open the curtains. That brief moment of potential life-altering shock that exists between knowing and not knowing. In horror movies he is the building sense of ominous dread, the growing knowledge that something is just plain 'wrong' and that things are going to go very, very badly for someone (i.e. you).
Rather than ferocious killing machines, his tools are the things you desperately don't want to exist, let alone encounter - not because they are dangerous and scary, but because they simply shouldn't be and even the knowledge of them is unwanted. Consider, the scattered, seemingly random snippets of video footage in 'Ring' and Sadako climbing out of the well as examples. They are the things you don't want to see or be seen by, the spectre that makes children hide under their bedcovers and dread the sound of a creaking floorboard, praying that they will not learn what is hidden in the shadows.
However, killing you isn't his primary threat. He can take everything you feel certain about, everything you care about and make you doubt it. That loving wife? A cultist whose relationship with you has been an act. Those beautiful children you adore? They never actually existed and you7re losing your mind. Your role as a loyal servant of the Imperium? Sorry, everything you've done has been manipulated to serve a different cause and your actions have undermined everything you claimed to stand for. Books like 'House of Leaves' (non-40k) give a sense of the sense of unreality (whether losing touch with reality, or, beginning to realise what true reality is) that might come from crossing Tzeentch's path.
Unfortunately, while the other three are easy to represent in books (as it takes only a paragraph to show how they kill numerous victims in horrible ways), properly explaining how Tzeentch's years long manipulation of an Imperial guard squad caused them to turn on one another or commit mass suicide at just the precise, right time (and laying out the despair each of the victims felt as their crumbling life finally reached its crisis point), would take dozens of pages. Little wonder that his complexity is rarely dealt with and instead he is reduced to the 'patron of chaos magic' archetype. It would be nice to see him, and his minions, given a little more attention even if this takes them in wildly different directions than the above.
It's kind of a meta book. The whole thing is a series of annotations and nested quotes about a set of 'found' letters and information. It's a story and none of this is real, but it's meant to be the descent into madness of the author analyzing these documents and videos.
> House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.
it appears you can read the entire book on amazon "look inside" preview
https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764
Here’s a link on Amazon.
Good on you. I don't need it, but here are some recs:
- <em>Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse),</em> John Cage
- <em>Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls,</em> Allen Strange
- <em>Ornament and Crime,</em> Adolf Loos
- <em>House of Leaves,</em> Mark Z. Danielewski
Mods, if any of the links aren't cool let me know and I'll pull them. Thanks!
Hola! Personalmente suelo usar Book Depository como primera opción para comprar libros, ya que están de los más baratos y no cobran envío (se demoran entre 1 mes y mes y medio en llegar), aunque Antártica, cadena de librerías de acá, suele ser mi segunda opción en caso de que el libro que busque quizás esté en el sitio, pero estos sí cobran envío de unos $4000 si mal no recuerdo (se demoran hasta unos 5 días en llegar). Por último, Buscalibre suele ser una buena opción, pero a veces los precios de los libros los inflan mucho y además te cobran envío (pero se demoran más o menos lo mismo en entregar que BD).
Ahora comparemos precios para el libro "House of Leaves" de Mark Z. Danielewski, asumiendo que este es el que buscas. En Buscalibre la edición de tapa blanda más barata está a $19.000 (en oferta), con la tapa dura a $37.000, mientras que en Book Depository la más barata de tapa blada está a $30.000, con la más cara de tapa dura a $45.000. Ahora, en otros sitios como Amazon te puede salir más barato, la edición de tapa blanda más barata está a $15.000, pero solo el envío por este sitio te puede salir más caro que el libro, así que no es tan recomendable. Sorprendentemente y por esta vez en Buscalibre está más barato que en Book Depository, así que yo aprovecharía esa oferta de 19 lucas, solo recordar que hay un costo de envío de unos $2000. Ah, y todas estas son las versiones en inglés, como dijiste.
TL;DR: Book Depository y Buscalibre son los mejores sitios para comprar libros en inglés en estos momentos. Específicamente para el libro que buscas ahora la opción más económica es en Buscalibre, tanto para formatos de tapa blanda y tapa dura.
If you’re using Amazon, it’s this one and if you’re not using Amazon, that’s your own quest. It’s very hard to find usually
It’s only 15 bucks on Amazon Prime, not too bad: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0375703764/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_g8UGEbZXCJQDH
Did you bother looking it up on Amazon? First result of a google search.
https://www.amazon.com/House-Leaves-Mark-Z-Danielewski/dp/0375703764
It’s a book, like House of Leaves, that you really need to get a physical copy. A download won’t do it justice.
Getting a sudden House of Leaves vibe from this prompt :)
Title: <span style="color: #0000ED">House<\/span> of Pancakes
Title-text: Fuck it. I'm just going to Waffle House.
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If you're into weird/gimmicky/out-there writing styles, Mark Z. Danielewski (author of House of Leaves) is writing a 27 volume series called The Familiar. He'll be releasing a novel every 6 months for the next 13.5 years. I'm most of the way through One Rainy Day In May, and while it's definitely got his writing style, it's actually really enjoyable to read. So give those a shot if you're interested in a very long series, lol. They even have their own subreddit for those curious to learn more!
Wow this really reminds me of house of leaves, which if you haven't already read, I would highly recommend if you're into this stuff
Cute. :)
House of Leaves is a novel. I haven't read it yet, but apparently it's really good.
Everyone should read more! I'm slowly making my way through a few books. I'm on the second book of the A Song of Fire and Ice and I'm currently focused on reading The House of Leaves. Haruki Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is another book that is on my reading list. :)
I have a bunch of books on my wishlist, and I can't really choose one! Plus some are a bit more expensive, whereas some are "cheap". So, you can choose for me!
It won't have House of Leaves in it.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall, and probably The Familiar by Mark Z. Danielewski as well. You could probably consider parts of 2666 by Roberto Bolaño to fit as well.
You might like the book House of Leaves, which is a bizarre horror story about a house that is infinitely larger on the inside than it is on the outside. There is a door that opens into a labyrinth of darkness (which doesn't take up any physical space) and some people set out to explore the mysteries of the house. The book is told in an interesting style as well, including pages like this or this or this. It's SUPER interesting.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
I recommend everyone here go get it.
Title: <span style="color: #0000ED">House</span> of Pancakes
Title-text: Fuck it. I'm just going to Waffle House.
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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves
The Shining
Here you go, great price if you ask me.
That was my first thought as well, thanks to House of Leaves of course
I got it for $11 on amazon. So far it has been more than worth the time and money
tl;dr: fuck it, if you're just looking for something that's a trip to read while high and not necessarily for the content itself,
Mind blowing book: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. I found out about it on reddit. It's scary, trippy, funny, suspenseful. Just buy it now.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
For those wondering... House of Leaves is by Mark Z. Danielewski. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375703764
Bigger on the inside than on the outside? Haver you read House Of Leaves? It is like the evil twin version of your house
House of Leaves is always my first suggestion, but it's not for everyone. I suggest pushing through the classics (The Picture of Dorian Gray! Heart of Darkness! Etc!) before you read anything else. Most of the good books published nowadays have references or callbacks to classic lit.
Fiction:
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. - One of the most engaging and entertaining reads of my life. Wallace was such a remarkable genius, and there isn't a wasted word in all 900+ pages. An absolute must-read.
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - A real mindfuck of a book. Hugely interesting. I couldn't put it down. It's one of those books that gives you a different perspective on what literature can be and do.
- The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker - Really delightful novella about an escalator ride. Hilarious. Baker examines the excruciating minutae of life in vivid and wonderful detail. I get a laugh almost every day, remembering something said in this book.
- The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen - Sort of the quintessential novel of contemporary American life. The story of a deeply dysfunctional midwestern family, each fighting their own personal self-absorbed struggle. It is satirical, and clever, and funny, and really well worth a read.
Non-Fiction
- Dry by Augusten Burroughs - Actually, pretty much any of his stuff is worth reading. He's clever, and funny, and has a way of writing really fucked-up stuff in a way that makes his audience really get where he's coming from. Dry is, I think, my favorite of his memoirs. (Note: It's a little bit of a stretch to put it in non-fiction, as it is certainly creative non-fiction, but it is well worth a read.)
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn - History from the perspective of the losers, rather than the winners. Well worth reading.
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglass Hofstaedter - This book will make you look at math, art, music, computers, and life in a different way.
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes - This book chronicles the Manhattan Project in vivid detail, from early discussions of the power of atoms, clear through to the deployment of the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is one of those truly excellent history books that everybody should read at least once.
Hope somebody finds some of these enjoyable.
House of Leaves. I'm not that too far into it, but so far it's really good. Fascinating writing style.
FYI, that part of the game is loosely based on the book House of Leaves.
Hands down: House of Leaves
I have never worked so hard to read a book before, but it is completely worth it.
House of leaves is a book that is all about a book.
>House of Leaves.
Nice one, and oh yeah. It feels like a cross between Palahniuk and Lovecraft, and it's amazing. You really have to study it as you read it in a way, there's nothing else quite like it. It probably isn't for everyone, though.
I am going to have to go with A House of Leaves. It also happens to be one of my favorite books. It is not poorly written at all just the page layout get progressively more bizarre in reflection of the narration. Also has three different stories going on at once, sometimes all on the same page.
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