ILB is too slow so let's have a thread about Mark Z. Danielewski's "House of Leaves"

I don't know who wrote it, but I noticed that he had a new one out last week. Is it any good?

I'm quite convinced it was Pelafina who wrote it. It would explain the coded message in her letter dated April 5, 1986 ("My dear Zampano, who did you lose?") as well as the reference to her practicing her smile in the mirror as a young girl, as Karen did. Either that, or Zampano was Johnny's dad.

The Poe song that uses part of the book is pretty funny.

(I have a sporadic series of blog posts called "Books I Haven't Read", about books I gave up on half way through)

Has anyone read Only Revolutions yet? I'm finding that one a real trial of my patience.

yeah, and so it is if too verbose and a trying a little hard to be clever.

i always got the feeling that he was secretly hoping a little cult would spring up around this book - did that ever happen, or did everyone just read it, think "ah, neat idea" and forget about it?

I'm not sure how that fits in to the discussion of the world-destroying terribleness of House of Leaves but here's a book that achieves everything Poe's brother was going for with style and concision:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/sleator/www/billy/pig-low.jpg

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http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/house_of_pancakes.png

lol

should I read this or is it a pile of wank? i have a first edition (actually second edition). I think I should just sell it and enjoy the $50 instead.

i have had this book on my shelf for srsly 8 years i think! i forgot about it!

oh holy shit, intersteller pig! I read that when I was like, 12. It was really good. In fact I think about it a lot! I should get that again.

MZD's script for the pilot for a streaming version that never happened...

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w8ju058vnudefwz/HouseOfLeavesPilot_ByMarkZDanielewski.pdf?dl=0

His prior intro as to why it didn't come to be...

"Welcome! A short story to start us off: in late 2017, I was approached by a Big Streaming Company about developing a multiple-season version of HOUSE OF LEAVES. And, get this — yes, you heard it here first — I considered it.
Thanks to some good-hearted and very intelligent people — we're talking top-ten picks — negotiations actually moved forward. You can guess the basics: yours truly as a showrunner, money to keep the cats fed, and the promise of some real back-breaking work. And we got close. Real close. But then as December holidays approached, said Big Streaming Company made it clear that they wanted to own everything, in perpetuity, including sequels, prequels, character spin-offs, etc. Well, you can bet this: not gonna happen. Big Streaming Company bet and lost. But in walking away, I lost too.

Nonetheless, while muddling through all those lawyerly pet tricks, I decided to take a couple of weeks and write the pilot on my own. The result is really a sketch but limns out well enough a concept I've been mulling over for years about how such a televised experience might unfold."