u/hagalaz_drums

They are both incredible technical drummers. But the way Spencer plays and the parts he writes just feel a lot better to me.

Just finished listening to the audio book and this bugged me everytime they were mentioned. For a book so self-aware and explicitly refererencing to other books and horrror movies by name... you really going to name a character dr. Navidson and expect me to believe that is a real person and not a reference to house of leaves, especially when you also mention house of leaves later in the book?

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Merry clearly states she knows "her sister isnt reagan" and knows fiction from reality. So, why name a 'real' character that specific, unusual name when you know the readers are going to recognize it?