Finally got it after reading the LWS thread. I hope it doesn't suck.
Finally got it after reading the LWS thread. I hope it doesn't suck.
it helps if you jot in it as well
If you aren't reading from a mirror at one point then you fucking fail.
Half the fun of the book is doing all the quirky things it expects you to.
Good lord that book was trippy. A fantastic read but your in for quite a ride.
On chapter VI now. Still not sure what to make of it. I think the tattoo guy is just as interesting as the house. It's a little hard for me to get through though. I have to admit I'm not a big book reader so this is the most unusual book I've read.
Push on is my opinion. It does get a little slow in some parts but it gets better. It has tons of between-the-lines plots as well. Such as why does Zampanň', a blind guy, become obsessed with a movie that has hardly any audio? Sorry, that was one of my favorite tangients in the book.
Only Revolutions is good too.
So far I can see how a guy like Zampanň' could write a book like that. For one he's blind so maybe he discovered a door that wasn't there before. Or a hallway that's really outside. Dark because it's always dark. Always changing.
But there was no film. At least that's what I gathered from the beginning. No movie. References to books that don't exist. Interviews with people who had never heard of Zampanó. The whole thing fake and made up by the blind guy.
EDIT: On page 332 now. The backwards stuff was a real let down. Especially the ones written on the "windows."
Last edited by Atomic; 10-13-2008 at 09:30 AM.
Oh, there is indeed a film.
Do tell.
BTW done.
Not much to say other than, there is indeed a film.
Have you measured your house yet?
No nothing like that. Just dreams heh. But then again I spent the past two days doing nothing but reading.
I still have to do a few things in the book. Like figure out some of the P letters. And translate the Old English. One of which I scoured the Internet to do and then later was disappointed when it was in a footnote later.
Last edited by Atomic; 10-14-2008 at 06:37 AM.
I couldn't get through the god damn thing, and I'm an avid reader. I tried. I really did. I had 3 main issues with it that prevented me from finishing it:
1. Truant is easily THE least credible narrator I've seen yet in a book. For someone from his walk of life, he writes far too well. It's possible to be intelligent and just living below one's potential. He writes like a fucking English professor.
2. I got halfway through and nothing. Happened. "Lost in the house" and "people flipping out" only holds my attention for so long.
3. I'm all about a book being quirky and breaking the rules, but you don't expect me to read through 4 pages of lists of names, do you? Seriously? I liked some of the "tricks" the book wanted me to do, but it got really old after a while.
Just not my cup of tea I guess. Other people I know really liked it.
Yeah some of the footnotes I just blah blah blah. Johnny comes from two intelligent parents one a pilot (dad)and the other writes like him(mom). (But then so did zamp(But then johnny might have added in a bit(But all of it written by the same author))) Mom is certifiable and so is Johnny. Two kinds of crazy in this world diagnosed and undiagnosed. His moms in the nut house and her son should be. At least on some meds. Maybe some yellow sunshine. Mom probably just needs meds too but I'm not certain. When she's on them she seems intelligent with a bit of mom crazy that all of them have.
I liked it. Took me some time to get through it but I'm not an avid reader so I'm not quite certain if my speed through it was fast or slow. I do know I didn't put it down much Sunday and even less often Monday. I'm going to let my sister borrow it who reads tons of books. She seemed interested when I started describing the house.
I finished reading this about a month ago....
I loved it to death but the constant switching from perspectives fucked me up a bit.
Lols at raping kyrie
Also:
Footnotes that were strictly lists I skipped, as did I do with most of the lists of names and non-essentials(also the backwards "windows" are just repeats ergo I skipped after the first)
and there was that thing where the author spelled his name out as the first letter in a series of footnotes, but i don't remember the sequence - it's been a while since I've read it.
togs I thought you were talking about the names in a list, and rearranging the letters made an anagram of indeterminate value. Using just the first letter from a series of footnotes isn't strictly speaking an anagram.
As I said in the reading thread, I'm currently finishing that book for the 14th time and I'm still not disappointed by it at all. It's been a big source of inspiration for me as a musician and a lyricist. As has been mentioned before, the sub-plots and in between the lines stories were absolutely fascinating if you pay attention to them. I'll admit, the first time I read it I couldn't sleep for a couple weeks because of the part in which Johnny was in the hallway and thought that there was something behind him. His description was absolutely incredible, and haunting enough to keep me awake for quite a while.
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