Members rileykill Posted October 17, 2011 Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coach Posted October 17, 2011 Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 How was it? HoL is one book that has sat on my bookshelf for 7+ years unread beyond the first 10 pages because it's such a time investment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rileykill Posted October 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 Really, I didn't find it that difficult. After the first couple of chapters I got used to the "format". It's pretty amazing. Much easier to read than, say, Gravity's Rainbow or Infinite Jest. I finished it in three days. Of course, I could spend a LOT more time looking up references in the footnotes and decoding this or that. But the story is definitely there without the staggering time investment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cassette Posted October 17, 2011 Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 spoiler about the ending the house isn't actually made of leaves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BHz_econo Posted October 17, 2011 Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 I stopped reading it. I got tired of the constant bouncing around of the story. I really liked them as separate stories but hated all the side-tracking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members live-I-evil Posted October 17, 2011 Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 Great, well I'm not reading that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rileykill Posted October 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 Haha! But ..... a book is made of leaves ......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coach Posted October 17, 2011 Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 This book would probably be best read on an e-reader where you could just click a link to the references, footnotes, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rileykill Posted October 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 This book would probably be best read on an e-reader where you could just click a link to the references, footnotes, etc. I dunno ..... an e-reader might be too small. There are some real formatting challenges later on. And, a good amount of the references are fake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Coach Posted October 17, 2011 Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 I dunno ..... an e-reader might be too small. There are some real formatting challenges later on. And, a good amount of the references are fake. Post-modernism...always causing problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zooLemon Posted October 17, 2011 Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 I guess you could turn House of Leaves into an e-book, but it would be much less satisfying that way. As with all things of this nature, the real pleasure is in the reread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rileykill Posted October 17, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 17, 2011 Yes. I think the first time you can basically just enjoy the story. Then with subsequent readings start to figure out more and more of the cool little details. I have no problem reading a really good book four or five times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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