― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't know who wrote it, but I noticed that he had a new one out last week. Is it any good?
― stet (stet), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 26 October 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
The Poe song that uses part of the book is pretty funny.
― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Friday, 27 October 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 27 October 2006 07:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link
(I have a sporadic series of blog posts called "Books I Haven't Read", about books I gave up on half way through)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Has anyone read Only Revolutions yet? I'm finding that one a real trial of my patience.
― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
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?
― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark Co (Markco), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark Co (Markco), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― adam (adam), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link
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― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 27 October 2006 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stevie D, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/house_of_pancakes.png
― (Rice Dream) (Stevie D), Thursday, 20 May 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Police Cool. (crüt), Thursday, 20 May 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― akm, Saturday, 18 June 2011 06:11 (twelve years ago) link
i have had this book on my shelf for srsly 8 years i think! i forgot about it!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 18 June 2011 06:14 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― akm, Saturday, 18 June 2011 06:15 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― brain (krakow), Monday, 18 June 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link