House of Leaves is a pile of shit that was probably a lot cooler to read in it's original form of disjointed chapters and handwritten notes and sketches that the writer would spread around the internet. It got way more praise than it deserved, probably because all of the hidden details and lengthy footnotes appeal to the complexity-lust shared by the kind of people that play games like Myst or follow Homestuck.
I like complexity and cleverness when it's done right, and when the driving narrative isn't stupid as fuck. Not quite the case here.
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