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/lit/'s thoughts on House of Leaves? (saw somebody mention it in another post)
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>>8166290

/lit/ hates it because it's popular,
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>>8166372
Understandable
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A great novel. A phenomenal debut. Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent — it renders most other fiction meaningless. One can imagine Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace bowing at Danielewski’s feet, choking with astonishment, surprise, laughter, awe.
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I liked it

it manages to be sincerely spooky.
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>>8166381
It's really a shame that Danielewski’s other novels really didn't live up, isn't it?
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>>8166381
Nice bait
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>>8166290
Gimmicky as fuck but still readable. Everything else he wrote was insufferable garbage though.
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>>8166453
This
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>>8166434
Lol
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Has anyone read the first volumes of his 27-part novel?
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>>8166616
Please don't namefag unless you have a reason to.
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