Are there any other books besides House of Leaves where you have to read the physical version to get the full experience?
I'd say Hypersphere requires both a physical reading as well as an ebook reading before you can get it all.
Every book.
Is it not just some red lettering? Can I not just read the pdf`?
>>8045474
The word "house" is always blue, everything related tothe Minotauris in red, and there's one passage in purple (very clever Mark!). There are also some weird uses of footnotes and white space that would be hard to reproduce off the page.
But more to the point,the physical book becomes like a labyrinth for you the reader, forcing you to contort and struggle with it, reflecting what happens to the characters and their own labyrinths.This is really essential to the themes of the book and would be entirely lost with an ereader or pdf, in my opinion.
this has similar layout gimicks
>>8045308
Only Revolutions by Danielewski as well
>>8046514
and all the familiar books
>>8046500
Is it possible for any creative/unorthodox use of syntax to not be labeled "gimmicky"?
>>8046519
Gimmicky is basically "unique but bad"
>>8046526
I would call gimmicky "all style, no substance" in which case it doesn't really apply to House of Leaves. Granted, it is highly stylized AND it seems like that will be the books only lasting legacy, but as I pointed out in >>8046492 all that style works in service of some grander thematic substance. I haven't read The Tunnel so I can't speak for that.
>>8045460
this
