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oh god... two days?

what the hell man!

you have to slow that down and enjoy it more!

take yr time

i don't know why people do stuff like that

or blast through 3 seasons of a show in like a week

mind boggling to me!


gah!

before i even begin to talk about the actual book (and oh yes... there WILL be foot notes!) ... i must also say that his follow up book (Only Revolutions) is quite the mind-bender too... but incredibly hard to get through (i'm [proud] i did!]... i've heard so many that read House that didn't bother with Only Rev or gave up after awhile!

and then there's his next book... a series of volumes about a girl who lost her cat or something... it was like a year ago that he said he sent in the first set of volumes and i don't know what's going on with it...

and i saw him do a book reading and met / talked with him afterwards in 2006 and he was really groovy / nice!

I believe tabelz has read it...

Yeah I did! It was awesome. Tons of of layers. I've always liked that MZD refers to it as a love story (Zampano refers to it as a female too :0) I don't like that people say it's a satire of film critical analysis I think that's the frame to tell the story in multiple layers

I was reading this for like a month up through a really bad breakup -- it was rough, rough as guts the whole way through -- and finished the book on the last day i saw her. it was...how can i put it?

it's the only book that ever gave me bad dreams. i finished it and felt like you feel when you're done being sick, and the fever's broken but you feel worn out, ridden hard and weak and you know the worst is over but you're still tired and pale.

I love it, I think the typography stuff is kind of funny (albeit annoying at times). It might be a more PoMo version of The Magus by Fowles

I thought Whalestoe Letters is the followup and Only Revolutions is not related to the House of Leaves stuff.

I finally have this one on hold (library book, of course) as well as a few others recommended and some neat stuff on the nature of consciousness and so I am set for foul weather with my reading mattttterrrrrr

Steve? Did Steve tell you that?

Steve Buscemi? I will write you an expository essay on the book, which should be arriving in the next library courier and no I won't read it all at once.

once you realize that it is the same story told from 2 different perspectives

where "time" goes forward (at least in lingo / phrases / sayings ... culture and ways of life)

it's a bit easier to get yr head around

but yeah

not so much a book where stuff HAPPENS

but rather a play on researching different time eras and WORDS and poetry / phrasings...

i honestly can say i found it to be the hardest book i ever read (way harder than Infinite Jest! and i'm sure way harder than Ulysses / Finn Again's Gwaker! hehe!) and i didn't even really enjoy it too much cept for certain small elements and the idear i got through it

if i could go back and do it again

i wouldn't have bothered with all the dates / words on the sides

it really doesn't add too much and slows things down a LOT / breaks it up in a bad way

i never went past the hobbit / LOTR

which felt like a prequel and MEGA LONG BOOK in 3 parts!

having read them in a row after seeing all the movies!

i hope the hobbit is a fun movie

split into 2 parts is kind of weird

but apparently they'll try to draw from other things and connect it up more with LOTR and that whole world!

Middle Earth!

MID HELL BIRTH!

i have this weird feeling that i should not read it again!

i don't want to destroy the magik!

i read it in 2004!

so the wait for the follow-up wasn't too long at all! (just 2.5 years!)

i thought THE FAMILIAR (his next one... a series of 27 volumes) was coming about this year

it won't be until 2014.... and will take YEARS to come out.... like one volume every 3 or 4 months or something?

that REALLY pisses me off!

i must say!

but later this year a novella he did called the 50 year sword from 2005 will FINALLY get wider release!

i've been waiting nearly 7 years for that!

THIS {house of leaves}

THAT {only revolutions}

and THE OTHER {the familiar]

oh god!