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House of Leaves Paperback – 1 March 2000

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THE MIND-BENDING CULT CLASSIC ABOUT A HOUSE THAT’S LARGER ON THE INSIDE THAN ON THE OUTSIDE • A masterpiece of horror and an astonishingly immersive, maze-like reading experience that redefines the boundaries of a novel.

''House of Leaves uses poems, screenplay excerpts, playful typography, assorted appendices, and a succession of stories within stories to create a novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Thrillingly alive, sublimely creepy, distressingly scary, breathtakingly intelligent—it renders most other fiction meaningless." —Bret Easton Ellis, bestselling author of American Psycho

“This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore.” —Jonathan Lethem, award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.

Now made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices, the story remains unchanged. Similarly, the cultural fascination with House of Leaves remains as fervent and as imaginative as ever. The novel has gone on to inspire doctorate-level courses and masters theses, cultural phenomena like the online urban legend of “the backrooms,” and incredible works of art in entirely unrealted mediums from music to video games.

Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of the impossibility of their new home, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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"Any hope or fear that the experimental novel was an aberration of the twentieth century is dashed by the appearance of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves, the first major experimental novel of the new millennium. And it's a monster. Dazzling."
--The Washington Post Book World

"An intricate, erudite, and deeply frightening book."
--The Wall Street Journal

"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."
--Bret Easton Ellis

"[Its] chills spark vertigo, its erudition brings on dislocating giddiness . . . House of Leaves is dizzying in every respect."
--Entertainment Weekly

"Stunning . . . What could have been a perfectly entertaining bit of literary
horror is instead an assault on the nature of story."
--Spin

"This demonically brilliant book is impossible to ignore, put down, or persuasively conclude reading. In fact, when you purchase your copy you may reach a certain page and find me there, reduced in size like Vincent Price in The Fly, still trapped in the web of its malicious, beautiful pages."
--Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn

"[A] tour de force first novel. [It] can keep you up at nights and make you never look at a closet in quite the same way again . . . Staggeringly good fun."
--Chicago Sun-Times

"A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious."
--The New York Times

"If you can imagine that Peter Pan's enemy is not Captain Hook but Neverland itself, or that the whale that swallows Jonah is Moby-Dick, you'll begin to appreciate what this book is about. Anticipate it with dread, seize, and understand. A riveting reading experience."
--Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

"Grabs hold and won't let go . . . The reader races through the pages exactly as her mind races to find out what happens next."
--The Village Voice

"Like Melville's Moby-Dick, Joyce's Ulysses, and Nabokov's Pale Fire, Danielewski's House of Leaves is a grandly ambitious multi-layered work that simply knocks your socks off with its vast scope, erudition, formal inventiveness, and sheer storytelling skills." --San Diego Union-Tribune

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Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.
Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.
The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pantheon Books; 2 edition (1 March 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 736 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0375703764
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0375703768
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 17.78 x 2.87 x 23.42 cm

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Mark Z. Danielewski was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles. He is the author of the award-winning and bestselling novel House of Leaves, National Book Award finalist Only Revolutions, and the novella The Fifty Year Sword, which was performed on Halloween three years in a row at REDCAT.

His books have been translated into multiple languages, and his work has been the focus of university classes and literary events. In 2015, Danielewski's THROWN, a reflection on Matthew Barney's CREMASTER 2, was displayed at the Guggenheim Museum during its Storylines exhibition.

Between 2015-2017, Pantheon released five volumes of The Familiar, each an 880-page installment about a 12-year-old girl who finds a kitten and sets off a chain reaction with global consequences. With the release of the series, the New York Times declared Danielewski "America's foremost literary Magus."

His latest release, The Little Blue Kite, will be out on November 5, 2019, accompanied by a US tour.

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Weird book

Reviewed in Australia on 1 January 2024

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This book has a really weird layout and would be very confusing to read. But apparently teens like weird so my son is very happy with it.

Reviewed in Australia on 10 July 2023

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I don't know if you can glean everything from one read, but this book is incredible. The layers of stories is intriguing, the typographic experiments add a lot to the experience. The humour is very funny, especially how it mocks academia. The suspense and shock moments are great. I don't buy many books but this one is worth it.

Reviewed in Australia on 21 June 2023

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Unlike any book I've ever read before. It's very complex and the way it uses the medium is genuinely unique and I don't think it could be explored in any way other than the writen word.

Reviewed in Australia on 22 July 2023

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This book is awesome. it has lots of fun little quirks. It's a good read and a fun adventure (for adults of young adults)

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The rating is to the listing not the book. The author uses colours in the text which are part of the story which you'll miss in a black and white edition which is what I got without knowing.

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Excelente producto

Excelente libro

Reviewed in Mexico on 5 April 2024

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La pasta blanda es una belleza. El libro viene a color (hay partes del texto que deben venir así, según el libro mismo). Es de buen tamaño y la letra también. Excelente producto

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Edição primorosa com história incrível

Reviewed in Brazil on 24 February 2024

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- Em relação a História:
São 3 camadas/histórias acontecendo simultaneamente com diferentes níveis de sanidade. A mais profunda delas é de uma família que, ao se mudar para uma nova casa, encontra nela algumas distorções proporcionais absurdas, como um corredor super longo e escuro (que demora 5/1½ para se percorrer inteiro) em uma parede que, externamente, seria impossível sua existência. Essa família, então, cria uma espécie de documentário que teoricamente nunca foi publicado através de gravações.

A segunda camada é o de um senhor cego que supostamente encontra essas fitas com as gravações, as assite e passa a escrever um documento manuscrito formatado como trabalho acadêmico analisando o suposto documentário.

Por fim, a camada mais superficial é a de um tatuador que encontra o documento do senhor, que recentemente faleceu e passa a cumprir o último desejo do falecido: publicar o manuscrito como livro (que no caso é o livro que o leitor tem em mãos). No meio desse compilado dos manuscritos, esse último personagem passa a escrever, com uma máquina de escrever, comentários e fatos sobre a vida dele, isso contribui para o livro apresentar centenas de notas de rodapé.

Tá, mas o que tem de diferente nisso tudo? As três camadas principais (existem mais) ocorrem SIMULTANEAMENTE na MESMA página e devem serem lidas JUNTAS. Conforme o livro passa, a história vai ficando cada vez mais maluca tanto de enredo, quanto de diagramação (que de normal passa a apresentar elementos gráficos diversos) e o mais interessante nisso é que aquela insanidade do senhor começa a passar para a história em si e também ao próprio leitor. Tem páginas com texto em formato de espiral, textos invertidos que devem serem lidos usando um espelho, cartas de uma mulher no manicômio que ao ser aplicado um "código" de descriptografia mostra uma mensagem super perturbadora de como ela está sendo tratada nesse manicômio e por aí vai. Páginas com apenas uma palavra. Páginas com textos espalhados nas margens e um quadrado preto gigante no meio. Isso é só o começo e o melhor de tudo, faz muito sentido com o que está acontecendo na história.

Foi uma leitura SENSACIONAL e arrepiante com momentos inclusive de romance, mas sobretudo com predomínio do medo do desconhecido de tla forma que sua própria casa, antes um local de conforto e lazer, acaba ela própria se tornando um local dúbio a seus olhos, como leitor.

- Em relação a edição:
Adquiri uma edição denominada como "Encadernação Clássica" que nada mais é que a edição bruchura/paperback encadernada em capa dura/hardback pela empresa "TurtleBack Books" que prepara livros para bibliotecas a fim de que os mesmos durem mais tempo e tornem-se mais resistentes.

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A mirror to the reader that presents the simulacrum of multiple stories, House of Leaves is probably the most subjective book I've ever read. I loved the experience of reading this book. And make no mistake: you must choose how to read it. More questions than answers or perhaps even a narrative, the book presents a multilayered facsimile of a few different kinds of fiction. So my review is as the book intends. Merely my own reading and far more reflective of what I saw of myself while consuming it, than of anything else. This book makes space for a plethora of different kinds of readings. And I studied the text as much as I was able, tabbing and underlining and making marginalia to see if it does support my reading. And it does, I think. I'm going to be brief because I'm doing a video review on my Youtube that will be much more in-depth.

Borgesque in its "main" narrative, The Navidson Tapes presents itself as academic criticism of a cult film that does not exist. In its granularity, this reader found that there was a very meaningful difference between consuming a film and reading the piece about the film that retreads every shot composition and feeling, every visual perception, endowing it with something beyond the film could hope to convey in a viewing. As a visual thinker, the film was even richer and textured and my comprehension of it so augmented, that I think it's a far superior experience. If watching it even were such an option.

We follow the Navidson's, Will and Karen, children: Chad and Daisy, put down "roots" in Virginia. Only their colonization of the property is inverted, and the house colonizers Will, the patriarch and famous war-time photographer that sets aside his exploration to be with his family. Only, after the family is settled, the house changes, given new space--altering its dimensions in a literal sense--growing to accommodate Will's primordial self. His maze. Or labyrinth. The journey is literalized just as he believes he's completed every journey and there is nothing left but to conquer being a father. The family finds a door to a hallway to a great foyer to a spiral staircase to a maze. This causes a rift in the couple Karen, who has claustrophobia and is too afraid to enter it, and Will, who sees the next adventure and finds it irresistible. What follows is the horror of a space reflective of the people traversing it, ostensibly, but I believe more of Will's internal selfhood, and by extension humanity. And from the wreckage of the horror of trying to navigate this maze, a movie is (fictitiously) created.

The movie's critical evaluation is done by a man named Zampano, who dies at an old age after becoming obsessed with the film. Researching every thematic linkage and creating his own reading. Another horror that reflects himself, driving him literally mad, or so it would seem.

Because the actual person who compiled Zampano's work is Johnny Truant. A fake name, fake person, steeped in fiction that obfuscates his own trauma hidden in the footnotes in the critical analysis Zampano had written. Literally interrupting and resisting the spiral of Navidson's narrative into the maze, as well as Zampano's dark and turbulent thoughts that similarly spiraled. Johnny's story is mostly of self-aggrandizement and sexual exploits and chemical debauchery. Generally interceding when we reach points in the Navidson narrative that trigger his trauma, though he is only aware of the metaphor he has created which haunts and dogs him, as he becomes more like Zampano. Reclusive and colonized by the reading of the Navidson story. Rather than process their trauma, see only darkness and are ultimately consumed by it.

Depending on what you believe "actually" happens in the narrative, anyway.

I think the key themes in the book are trauma and colonization. They're hit on the head the most, in every prose craft fashion. Metaphor, allegory, symbolism. Everything seems to me, to point to the idea of patterns colonizing minds doomed to trace the same doomed lines on every layer of the fiction, regardless of whoever and however they consumed them. Everyone needs other people to feed them information outside of their own darkroom to truly see themselves. And without outside intercession, I think we all wander our own internal maze, whether we are aware of it or not. More so for people who carry trauma, who seem to have more darkness and less light to navigate the labyrinth.

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Zackiepie

THE HOUSE IS ALL IN THE HOUSE IS ALL IN THE HOUSE IS ALL IN THE HOUSE IS all in the house of leaves

Reviewed in Germany on 4 March 2024

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im not done with the book... like im at page 70 of 800 or something idk. but its amazing, id love to try and make a movie of this caus i think i'd be mega fun and cool.

reading the book is difficult seeing as the in world author (Zampano) and the in world punlisher (Hoss) are both unreliable narrators. but both have such a mystique, responsibility and charisma in the way they tell the story. this book is a master piece, its about obsession but by reading it you want to know wtf is gonna happen to the Navidson family and there by you get obsessed with the book.... this is layers upon layers of horror and its fully worth the 40chf i paid for it

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