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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31096773

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Man that book was good though. I knew a few people who put measuring tape on the walls after reading it.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have it and still haven’t started. I should.

I have a laser measurer!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Be sure to read

The manual

And the footnotes

All the footnotes

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

I’m only 100 pages into Infinite Jest right now, I am horrible familiar with footnotes…

[–] Bonifratz@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Very cool. What's the third panel from? It doesn't ring a bell.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I was expecting one of them to be on a cane and calling the other a liar while popping vicodin

[–] barkingspiders 3 points 10 months ago

I really loved this 😂

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

More like; wanna play backrooms.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Ok but if you like the backrooms idea this was before that and way creeper imo