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Hooplah posted:Yeah I mean it’s extremely pretentious with all the metafiction and postmodernist “medium is the message” bs but the actual text/narrative is pretty straightforward So listen to the audiobook version?
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Biplane posted:If my home grew larger on the inside I would simply start subletting immediately. Sigma grindset baby justin long in barbarian measuring the hidden sex dungeon to see how much value it adds to the house
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Dreams In The Witch House, the Musical: "gently caress yooouuu, The House of Leaves, I already did it, you're ripping me off"
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kalel posted:justin long in barbarian measuring the hidden sex dungeon to see how much value it adds to the house
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Cocaine Bear posted:So listen to the audiobook version? That would be great if it actually existed. It's a decent story trying to be the great american novel so they threw in wacky typesetting and an alphabetical listing of every woman the author self insert ever hosed but deep down inside he just wants a surrogate mommy.
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bawk posted:House of Leaves was a real good read, enjoyed it a lot. If you want incomprehensible, check out Only Revolutions by the same author. Still have no clue what the gently caress that book is about The only book I own that I just can't finish I did get 2 song titles out of it, for a harsh noise project, though, so not a total waste...
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I think you could make a decent mockumentary of the Navidson Record itself, and scrub away all the metatextual stuff.
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I'm glad I read it It was cute to find a mirror to read parts of it I got a guitar out and played the music The house and framing device was effectively spooky I choose not to analyse it deeper than surface level and believe that is the right choice
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hazardousmouse posted:1/3 of it is real good. the 2/3 in the "present" are boring as poo poo I kinda enjoyed the "present" stuff. I think the trick is to not read it too closely and just rely on it for vibes. The contrast between the main narrative being this clean prose recounting a series of events that happened to this family and the "present" narrative being this one increasingly deranged lunatic digging through notes in boxes was pretty funny. It worked for setting the tone and maintaining tension. Like having a weird darkness clawing at the fringes of the story, which was the point I suppose
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The only thing i retained from house of leaves is the joke about the monks which is one of the 3 jokes i can remember at a given point in time
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Post the joke
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Milo and POTUS posted:Post the joke 
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projecthalaxy posted:is this some sort of redditor book 100%
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hazardousmouse posted:1/3 of it is real good. the 2/3 in the "present" are boring as poo poo  hosed up house? Descent into madness? Awesome. Some douchebag on a motorbike? Borrrrrrrrrrrrrring edit: I honestly can't remember if he was on a motorbike but that's how I remember that character. Gravitas Shortfall has a new favorite as of 10:05 on May 25, 2023 |
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He talks a lot about how he wants to gently caress a stripper.
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Holy poo poo https://twitter.com/UltimaShadowX/status/1661632018021511169 https://i.imgur.com/K0cZjo3.mp4
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Luke 23:15 - "monks must remain celebrate"
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Yoinked to the byob super powers with upsetting side effects thread.
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poo poo it me in fact the last grocery run resulted in a can of that and a bottle of L&P
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does it taste like Josta? if so I'm on board.
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finally some myhouse.wad memes
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LifeSunDeath posted:does it taste like Josta? if so I'm on board. All together now: What's Josta?
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it's josta few inches
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zoux posted:All together now: What's Josta? Nothing much What's Josta with you?
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zoux posted:All together now: What's Josta? Josta deez nuts
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zoux posted:All together now: What's Josta? Josta innocent men
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House of Leaves is worth reading, Only Revolutions is not, The 50 Year Sword is good. I have not read anything else by the author.
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Is the prose MEANT to be written so...idk, sloppily? Like, the grammar, word pattern, flow, whatever you want to call it feels like it's a 13 year old's essay.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Is the prose MEANT to be written so...idk, sloppily? Like, the grammar, word pattern, flow, whatever you want to call it feels like it's a 13 year old's essay. Yes, that page is all intended to be in the voice of a person who is not of high intellect
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Also how my posting is intended
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Chintu you son of a bitch
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DrBouvenstein posted:Is the prose MEANT to be written so...idk, sloppily? Like, the grammar, word pattern, flow, whatever you want to call it feels like it's a 13 year old's essay. From what I remember on the book, it bounces between 3 or so characters. So it goes back and forth in tone constantly.
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kdrudy posted:Chintu you son of a bitch This is my new favorite description of the book as a whole ty
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thalweg posted:The only thing i retained from house of leaves is the joke about the monks which is one of the 3 jokes i can remember at a given point in time That's a terrible joke though - if you want a joke to fill a brain-slot why not one from the great, sadly departed, Barry Cryer quote:Three guys are walking through the woods when they find a lamp. One of them picks it up, rubs it, and out pops a Genie. It booms "You have finally freed me after all these years, so I grant each one of you 3 wishes." The first guy immediately blurts out "I want a billion dollars." POOF, he's holding a printout that shows his account balance is now in fact $1,000,000,003.50. The second man thinks for a bit, then says "I want to be the richest man alive." POOF, he's holding papers showing his net worth is now well over 100 billion. The third guy thinks even longer about his wish, then says "l want my left arm to rotate clockwise for the rest of my life." POOF, his arm starts rotating.
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