PDF Download House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
Ended with your spare time and also have no suggestion how you can do? Get the House Of Leaves, By Mark Z. Danielewski and also take it as your reading book. Why should read? Some individuals will think that this is a really careless as well as boring task to do. Additionally, several with spare time usually assume that they are free. That's not the time for knowing. Well, reads only for your when finding out or examining something? Absolutely that's not.
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
PDF Download House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski
New updated! The House Of Leaves, By Mark Z. Danielewski from the most effective author and also author is currently readily available below. This is the book House Of Leaves, By Mark Z. Danielewski that will make your day reviewing ends up being finished. When you are looking for the printed book House Of Leaves, By Mark Z. Danielewski of this title in guide shop, you might not find it. The troubles can be the limited editions House Of Leaves, By Mark Z. Danielewski that are given up the book shop.
Reading comes to be on part of the life that ought to be done by everyone. Reviewing ought to be believed from earlier to be routine and leisure activity. Also there are many individuals with variant hobbies; it doesn't imply that you could not appreciate reviewing as various other activity. Reading House Of Leaves, By Mark Z. Danielewski is one of the means for you to improve your high quality of the life. It is such assumed in the many sources.
In this life, in some cases you require something that will delight you even it additionally gives the good values. Not all the important things need to be so stationary and complex to obtain advantages. Constantly remember this House Of Leaves, By Mark Z. Danielewski as one of the resources that you can check out. This is just what you could draw from guide that we advertise below. It is additionally easy to obtain and find guide.
Need some home entertainment? Really, this publication does not only pay for the expertise factors. You can establish it as the added enjoyable analysis material. Locate the reason of why you enjoy this book for fun, as well. It will be much higher to be part of the fantastic visitors in the world that checked out House Of Leaves, By Mark Z. Danielewski as there referred publication. Now, just what do you think about guide that we supply here?
Amazon.com Review
Had The Blair Witch Project been a book instead of a film, and had it been written by, say, Nabokov at his most playful, revised by Stephen King at his most cerebral, and typeset by the futurist editors of Blast at their most avant-garde, the result might have been something like House of Leaves. Mark Z. Danielewski's first novel has a lot going on: notably the discovery of a pseudoacademic monograph called The Navidson Record, written by a blind man named Zampanò, about a nonexistent documentary film--which itself is about a photojournalist who finds a house that has supernatural, surreal qualities. (The inner dimensions, for example, are measurably larger than the outer ones.) In addition to this Russian-doll layering of narrators, Danielewski packs in poems, scientific lists, collages, Polaroids, appendices of fake correspondence and "various quotes," single lines of prose placed any which way on the page, crossed-out passages, and so on. Now that we've reached the post-postmodern era, presumably there's nobody left who needs liberating from the strictures of conventional fiction. So apart from its narrative high jinks, what does House of Leaves have to offer? According to Johnny Truant, the tattoo-shop apprentice who discovers Zampanò's work, once you read The Navidson Record, For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how. We'll have to take his word for it, however. As it's presented here, the description of the spooky film isn't continuous enough to have much scare power. Instead, we're pulled back into Johnny Truant's world through his footnotes, which he uses to discharge everything in his head, including the discovery of the manuscript, his encounters with people who knew Zampanò, and his own battles with drugs, sex, ennui, and a vague evil force. If The Navidson Record is a mad professor lecturing on the supernatural with rational-seeming conviction, Truant's footnotes are the manic student in the back of the auditorium, wigged out and furiously scribbling whoa-dude notes about life. Despite his flaws, Truant is an appealingly earnest amateur editor--finding translators, tracking down sources, pointing out incongruities. Danielewski takes an academic's--or ex-academic's--glee in footnotes (the similarity to David Foster Wallace is almost too obvious to mention), as well as other bogus ivory-tower trappings such as interviews with celebrity scholars like Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom. And he stuffs highbrow and pop-culture references (and parodies) into the novel with the enthusiasm of an anarchist filling a pipe bomb with bits of junk metal. House of Leaves may not be the prettiest or most coherent collection, but if you're trying to blow stuff up, who cares? --John Ponyicsanyi
Read more
From Publishers Weekly
Danielewski's eccentric and sometimes brilliant debut novel is really two novels, hooked together by the Nabokovian trick of running one narrative in footnotes to the other. One-the horror story-is a tour-de-force. Zampano, a blind Angelino recluse, dies, leaving behind the notes to a manuscript that's an account of a film called The Navidson Report. In the Report, Pulitzer Prize-winning news photographer Will Navidson and his girlfriend move with their two children to a house in an unnamed Virginia town in an attempt to save their relationship. One day, Will discovers that the interior of the house measures more than its exterior. More ominously, a closet appears, then a hallway. Out of this intellectual paradox, Danielewski constructs a viscerally frightening experience. Will contacts a number of people, including explorer Holloway Roberts, who mounts an expedition with his two-man crew. They discover a vast stairway and countless halls. The whole structure occasionally groans, and the space reconfigures, driving Holloway into a murderous frenzy. The story of the house is stitched together from disparate accounts, until the experience becomes somewhat like stumbling into Borges's Library of Babel. This potentially cumbersome device actually enhances the horror of the tale, rather than distracting from it. Less successful, however, is the second story unfolding in footnotes, that of the manuscript's editor, (and the novel's narrator), Johnny Truant. Johnny, who discovered Zampano's body and took his papers, works in a tattoo parlor. He tracks down and beds most of the women who assisted Zampano in preparing his manuscript. But soon Johnny is crippled by panic attacks, bringing him close to psychosis. In the Truant sections, Danielewski attempts an Infinite Jest-like feat of ventriloquism, but where Wallace is a master of voices, Danielewski is not. His strength is parodying a certain academic tone and harnessing that to pop culture tropes. Nevertheless, the novel is a surreal palimpsest of terror and erudition, surely destined for cult status. (Mar.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Read more
See all Editorial Reviews
Product details
Series: House of Leaves (Book 1)
Paperback: 709 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; 2nd edition (March 7, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375703764
ISBN-13: 978-0375703768
Product Dimensions:
7 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
1,355 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book came into my possession in 2003. I was stationed in Iraq, hanging out with a battle buddy. He and I were hanging out in the recreation tent at Baghdad International Airport (BIAP, aka Camp Sather) watching DVDs and perusing books. Sam, my battle buddy, hands me a battered copy of this book, and says, "I tried reading this-- but I think it's more your speed."We parted ways in November. I was headed home, he went to another location. I was on a layover at an airbase in Al Udeid when I started reading this book.And by "reading this book", I meant devouring it, like Bastian did as he holed himself in the attic of his primary school, surrounded by food, covered in a rough blanket, sequestered from the rest of the world, pouring through a mighty tome about a story without an end.I didn't put the book down save to sleep and trek out to the latrine to do what needed to be done every few hours or so. I usually burn through a book in a few hours, but this one demanded time and attention, lest I run over vital. I was taken by the unreliable narrator of Johnny Truant, and I was enthralled by the journey Navidson endured in reclaiming his life from the horrifying macguffin that was the house his family lived in (and people died horribly in).Navy and Johnny were two sides of the same coin, bound together by the mysterious scratches of a dead, Milton-esque man. Their stories were so disparate and yet so interconnected. The fabric between them was everywhere from rough and roughly hewn to diaphanous and metaphysical. The footnotes of footnotes were layers upon layers -- toying with the reality in which the contents of the book existed. Rules were set up and broken, and yet, everything was cohesive as long as the reader had the endurance to follow along.I've seen a LOT of the One-Star reviews complain that they weren't snagged within the first 100 pages. Pity-- Not everything is a slamming action-fast-paced piece of NASCAR fiction that grabs one by the genitals and rips them off in the first two pages. If you aren't in for the slow burn, then the first five words of the book ring true:This is not for you.House of Leaves became a seminal event in my life when I finished reading it. The darkness in my life, punctuated with walking away from a war with my life and body in tact, became that much clearer from the light-- and I somehow began finding awe and inspiration with greater ease. Some have said that it's a story about people coming to grips with loneliness and/or depression. Some have said it's a love story.No one is wrong in their discovery. The only wrong that may be done is to criticize a book unread.To that end, I've ended up buying different copies of this book, like a madman collecting any copy of JD Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" they could get their hands on, or a person who absolutely could not would not leave the house without a pair of gloves to shield their hands from the world. Whenever I mentioned the book to a friend, they usually ended up being the recipient of the copy I bought.The original copy I received, the one Sam gave me, is in a fireproof safe. Well-worn with a hand-written note scribbled on the front page, I refuse to part with it. But at this point, I'm considering buying a new copy so that I can read it again.
House of Leaves was recommended to me by a friend and I have to say, this book is incredible. If you like suspense, horror, and having nightmares about books (I'm serious), then this one is for you. The story will affect you on multiple levels. Buy this book. MAKE SURE you get the one that's FULL COLOR. Read everything. Don't skip ahead or flip through the book before you begin reading. If you get vertigo halfway through, that just means you're fully appreciating Danielewski's work. Hands down, the most entertaining book I've ever read. It was a joy to read.Trust me, I'm already mad at you for not having this book in your shopping cart.
This is the single greatest work of fiction that I have ever read. It was been several years since I have but I have purchased two copies since then and gifted them to my Anne Rice addict aunt and my Navy bound brother who is a fan of Stephen King. I was first introduced by my best friend and ever since I got a hold of it, I havr been looking for something else like it. I keep saying that it needs to be a movie. I imagine Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for A Dream, Black Swan) would direct it, if I had my wish. This book is work but it is worth it. It draws you in like the maze in the house that is bigger on the inside. Amazing!
It's been a few days since I finished this book and my best one word description is "heavy". It's a big sucker at just over 700 pages, so literally heavy and it's not at all what anyone would describe as light reading! Don't let the 700+ pages keep you away though! This is quite an unusual book! Some of the pages only have one word on them. Some are just lists of names!When I first started reading House of Leaves, I really didn't think I was going to like it. It's a kind of tedious book at times. There are a LOT of footnotes! The page flipping and re-reading and foreign language translation and, let's just face it, some English translation! Mark Z. Danielewski knows a lot of words! Really! Tons of them!As I continued, I became more and more intrigued and felt as if I was "experiencing" the book, not just reading it!The strange pages made me want to know what was on them! And they are pretty strange. There are no rules! I can see how it has become an obsession for some! I will omit my spoilers here! The end came and I was just not satisfied!!! Not at all!So, rough start, rough ending, loved the middle... I'd say that's a clear 3 stars! But... you have to give this guy credit for an amazingly original book! I'm not sure what kind of crazy smart or crazy twisted mind Danielewski has but he must be one heck of a guy to have a conversation with! So, I give it 4 stars, 3 for content, 5 for creativity and originality!
I love good, well written literature. I also enjoy a well written mystery, preferrably with supernatural under-tones. The reviews for this novel made me believe that is what I was in for : a house bigger on the inside than the outside. I thought I was in for an excellent tale akin to Peter Straub’s best works. I was sadly disappointed. The novel’s layout is pretentious just like the socalled artistic cinematography of the Blair Witch movie, which gave me a headache. The writing is so-so. It becomes a tedious read to get to the the key story points and once there, one experiences the same disappointment that one has after reading Lovecraft (another pretentious author, with a tedious writing style). I was taken in by the many 5 star positive reviews and should have read the 3, 2, and 1 star ones. I am sorry I wasted my money on this doorstop weight of a book (it is huge yet many pages have one phrase or two on them), and not to mention what I paid for shipping as it was not eligible for Prime. The book quickly becomes unreadable unless you are very invested in this style of “creepy pasta†story telling. I like creepy paste tales but not this one. Do not waste your money, there are better written and more entertaining novels available than this one.
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski PDF
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski EPub
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski Doc
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski iBooks
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski rtf
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski Mobipocket
House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski Kindle
