House of Leaves

The HOUSE however, seems mythic. Unknowable distances, repeating maze-like labyrinths, dark, repetitive, and using proper nouns like The Staircase. I want to know if Susanna Clarke had read this before she wrote Piranesi. Or if the creators of The Backrooms media know about this?

Noted on August 9, 2024

This is definitely a Borgian horror here. And like, horror-like-horrormovie. It's interesting! But not my genre. I've read a few horror books because they had some conceptual or formal innovation, and I guess that's the same thing happening here. But I'm very torn about this. I don't like the genre, but I am interested in what's happening, and I'm mostly enjoying the lexicographic mess that the page layouts are doing. But.. on the other hand, I'm 350 pages into this horror book and only halfway through???

Noted on August 9, 2024

I don’t remember why this made it on my to-read list, but it’s a twisty nested structural… horror book? Not sure yet. But the general conceit so far is: this is a booklength review of a Blair-witch style found footage documentary, with discursive footnotes, which is then FURTHER footnoted with personal stories from the punk kid who found all this (along with the original foot-noter’s body). That’s just 75 pages in, I suspect it’s going to get more complicated.

Noted on July 24, 2024