House of leaves is a visual experience! While reading you literally risk to get lost inside his labyrinth of word and columns. I mean seriously
„ I can say that the house in The Navidson Record is bigger on the inside than on the outside“
- that‘s free real estate!
I read it a long time ago. The format is interesting, novel certainly. I suppose it’s the selling point, over the prose.
To me it seemed like there were many competing “ways” to read it as well. Like a maze, you can go different paths. Do you read it front to back? Niggle through the citations? Thread back through the holes? It’s not often you get a book that has this much re-read value.
It seems like this reviewer disliked what I absolutely love about it! The format is what got me interested in reading it at first and made it an experience uniquely tied to the medium of books
Total unrelated note, anyone played “My House” the Doom mod. It’s pretty fun
I saw a walk through on YouTube. Very similar vibes.




