House of Leaves

House of Leaves

Paperback
3.816

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Johnny Truant, a wild and troubled sometime employee in a LA tattoo parlour, finds a notebook kept by Zampano, a reclusive old man found dead in a cluttered apartment. Herein is the heavily annotated story of the Navidson Report. Will Navidson, a photojournalist, and his family move into a new house. What happens next is recorded on videotapes and in interviews. Now the Navidsons are household names. Zampano, writing on loose sheets, stained napkins, crammed notebooks, has compiled what must be the definitive work on the events on Ash Tree Lane. But Johnny Truant has never heard of the Navidson Record. Nor has anyone else he knows. And the more he reads about Will Navidson's house, the more frightened he becomes. Paranoia besets him. The worst part is that he can't just dismiss the notebook as the ramblings of a crazy old man. He's starting to notice things changing around him...Immensely imaginative, impossible to put down and impossible to forget, "House of Leaves" is thrilling, terrifying and unlike anything you have ever read before.
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House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

3.5

Carefully constructed piece of art, hard but rewarding

I really have no idea how to rate this book. It is a lot of things: Scary, touching, confusing, absorbing (just like the house itself?!) I loved it but I was also frustrated by a lot of the...well, the space in between the different interwoven stories and the many, many unanswered questions. Then again: This is not an easy book. It does not hand you answers easily. It does not give certainties. That is seriously so cool. You'll need to have this book as a physical copy to really enjoy it. There will be footnotes. You will stumble over layout choices and it will be an awesome experience. You'll probably turn pages left and right quite a bit, (the book does not like to spill its secrets easily), and you will need to bring your utmost focus. But, and I enjoyed that very much, it will not by like anything you've read before. The atmosphere sucks you right in.

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

3.5

Actually, I'm not sure if I understood the story. It's just so confusing!

The book is a story within a story within a story and therefore makes it complex to understand everything at the first read. There are many hints to decode. The style of writing is on an acedemical level with a whole bunch of footnotes. Within the house, the writing style depicts the situation the characters have to go through, especially because of the visualisation and order of the text. It was interesting to read but - as I said - it is difficult to stay through and with an open ending

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

3.5

It's more a piece of art than a book. Very confusing as well but somehow I still was drawn to it.

House of Leaves

House of Leaves

von Mark Z. Danielewski

4

Verstörend. Etwas mühsam zu lesen aber cooles Konzept. Die Side Story mit Johnny find ich etwas zach größtenteils. Aufwühlend. Mein Herz rast. Musste immer Mal wieder Lesepausen machen. Man hat das Gefühl man verliert wir Johnny langsam den Verstand. Bin froh dass es ausgelesen ist ^^ Aber gutes Ende.

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

3

Ein Stück Kunst zum Lesen

Ich weiß ehrlich nicht wie ich es bewerten soll. Das Buch selber ist wirklich schwer zu lesen, grade die erste Hälfte. Ich fand es furchtbar und hab mich sehr durch quälen müssen. Die Story in der Story in der Story beizubehalten als Autor finde ich jedoch eine top Leistung. Die Story vom 💙 Haus fand ich richtig spannend und super gut gemacht, mit dem Atmosphärischen Lesen durchs geschickte Platzieren der Wörter, ich musste mich jedoch erst dran gewöhnen um es genießen zu können. Die Story von Johnny fand ich sehr manisch und anstrengend, konfus, langweilig und verrückt, aber auch das passte super von der Atmosphäre zu seinem Drogenrausch. Ich bin mit anderen Erwartungen an dieses Buch gegangen. Ich habe eher mit einem Rätsel gerechnet, wie ein Krimi, den man selber löst. Ein Rätsel war es auch jedoch auf einer ganz anderen Ebene wie ein Bild von Jackson Pollock. Es lädt zum fühlen ein, zum analysieren und lässt einen verwirrt zurück. Ein Stück Kunst zum Lesen.

Ein Stück Kunst zum Lesen
House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

5

Hab jede einzelne Seite geliebt

House of Leaves

House of Leaves

von Mark Z Danielewski

5

Super spannendes Buch. Das Format und die Art es zu lesen war mal was Neues.

House of Leaves

House of Leaves

von Mark Z. Danielewski

1

Als Kunstwerk zu betrachten, zum Lesen aber zu ungeeignet (zumindest für mich)

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

5

Das war intensiv. Das Buch lässt sich wirklich schwer beschreiben. Eine Geschichte in einer Geschichte, grafisch dargestellt. Man wird richtig reingezogen. Teilweise ist es anstrengend. Sehr spannend. Für mich ein Meisterwerk aber ich kann auch jeden verstehen, dem das ganze zu komplex ist. Bin auf jeden Fall froh es, nachdem das Buch seit ungefähr 7 Jahren in meinem Regal stand, gelesen zu haben und werde es noch eine Weile verdauen müssen.

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

3

Multiple exclamations of, "ThIs EfFiNg BoOk!!!" were witnessed by my husband and our dogs. LOL! It was weird. I'll give it that. I almost felt like it was trying too hard to be weird though. I liked the core story-line about the house. JT's story-line was ehhhhhh, a little wild and manic which I'm interpreting as the point. I'm confused as to why this is classified as horror though. I wouldn't classify it in that genre, but I don't think there's a genre for weird. :)

House of Leaves: The Remastered, Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered, Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

4

Absolutely LOVED all the formatting and layers of meta. I even like some really unpopular parts like the Echo chapter. But I just don't care at all about any of the stories. They never captivated me fully. Both endings were also really not up my alley for very different reasons. Overall a book were I don't care about its actual content but just how cool it was structured.

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition

von Mark Z. Danielewski

5

Man

House of Leaves

House of Leaves

von Mark Z. Danielewski

2

At first exiting, I liked the story, I liked how the book looks like. Then it starts to drag and drag until I started to skip sentences out of utter bordom.

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