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House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

I bought this book after reading a review in the Independent on Sunday and how glad I am that I did. I think this is one of the strangest books I have read for a long long time - but one that I found I couldn't put down. Even the basic plot is difficult to explain ... but here goes. Johnny Truant (who narrates the book) comes across the papers and writings of a blind loner called Zampano, who has recently died. These papers and writing are about a documentary film 'The Navidson Record' shot by a famous photo journalist about his new home in the country. The house is not all it seems with strange doors appearing leading to endless corridoors and bottomless stairways. ...

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

I bought this book after reading a review in the Independent on Sunday and how glad I am that I did. I think this is one of the strangest books I have read for a long long time - but one that I found I couldn't put down. Even the basic plot is difficult to explain ... but here goes. Johnny Truant (who narrates the book) comes across the papers and writings of a blind loner called Zampano, who has recently died. These papers and writing are about a documentary film 'The Navidson Record' shot by a famous photo journalist about his new home in the country. The house is not all it seems with strange doors appearing leading to endless corridoors and bottomless stairways. ...

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

of 'American Psycho') says he may never recover from reading such a scary book, you know you have to try it for yourself. In his review of Mark Z. Danielewski's debut novel, Ellis goes further and states that it is "...Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless...I feel privileged to be among its first readers. Will I ever recover?" This book has been hyped up in America as the text equvallent of the smash-hit film 'The Blair Witch Project'. The publishers have even gone so far as to replicate the spooky/weird website to promote it (go to ...

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

of 'American Psycho') says he may never recover from reading such a scary book, you know you have to try it for yourself. In his review of Mark Z. Danielewski's debut novel, Ellis goes further and states that it is "...Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent - it renders most other fiction meaningless...I feel privileged to be among its first readers. Will I ever recover?" This book has been hyped up in America as the text equvallent of the smash-hit film 'The Blair Witch Project'. The publishers have even gone so far as to replicate the spooky/weird website to promote it (go to ...