r/houseofleaves

Hey, so I’m new to this. I haven’t gotten a physical copy and I’m waiting on it but I’m looking into the series and I noticed a strange pattern most of Johnny’s horrible situations revolve around Lude he is the entire reason this book started and he’s haunting the narrative for Johnny and Johnny seems to go in it because not only does he have nothing left, but he is extremely dependent on Lude for literally everything in his sex life. It makes me wonder how they met and how Johnny got this attached. Johnny doesn’t seem like the type of guy to have many friends makes me wonder how they met and for this technically unhealthy bond. I know that he has admiration for the man, but how did that admiration start? These questions might be answered so don’t shame me again. This is just my opinion. I don’t know if I’m the only one that noticed this.

I've read a lot of the standard recommendations, I want weirder. I've read shark texts and vellium. While I enjoyed them, what seems to be copied of the house of leaves style it only copied the idea of there being reference material for you to refer to. I just finished "The Gone World" and "There is no Antimemetics Division" and both of them really seemed way more similar to the confusing and anxiety inducing narrative of house of leaves. I'll also say I read toms crossing and it wasn't for me.

I guess what I want are more books that cause anxiety in the way house of leaves, the gone world, and there is no antimemetics division caused me to feel that out of dread in my stomach. Can anyone recommend me any more books? My next read that was recommended to me is "The Troop" and we will see.

I get it now I cracked it the house is book and they can’t leaf it get it get it like pages are leaves and they leave but not really like holy shit feet the foot I understand it now listen Johnny is like the book trying to be a better book than the original book if you know what I mean and we’re the superior book because we’re reading the books the leaves it’s all the fucking house and even more fucking leaves and it’s blue because he likes the color no fucking way hahahahha oh what a coincidence I also like blue but like how did he know hehehe oh man

It’s best put in the Yggdrasil Poem.

“It stands ten thousand feet high, but doesn’t touch the ground.”

It is incomprehensibly large. It is everything. And yet, it doesn’t connect. All the pieces of the puzzle fit together, but they make a meaningless photo with too much nuance and detail to ever truly understand that will never feel like a solution no matter how many times you take it apart and put it back together again or tear it apart or gut it or bite it or hurt it no matter what you do it will never fit in a meaningful way because the infinite amounts to a total of nothing due to the fact that infinite information will only repeat eternally until it all cancels out to zero

Anyways, what do you think?

I really enjoyed this book, I got a little high from the part where he was also reading the book and burning the pages. I realized I was reading it like it was a normal thing to be reading and I had to accept that I live in danielewskis world now.