I was debating whether or not I should recommend this book but then decided it was just too original, and strange not to. That book is “The House of Leaves” by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Simply put, it is a book, about a book, about a documentary, that doesn’t really exist. Did you follow that? Anyway, Johnny Truant notices an elderly man from his apartment complex has not been seen in a while and when he goes to investigate, Johnny finds the man dead in his apartment with deep animal-like claw marks in the floor next to him. All the window’s and vents in the apartment were sealed shut. His name was Zampano, and in his apartment, Johnny discovers manuscripts Zampano had written about a documentary called “The Navidson Record”. This documentary was meant to depict a family’s journey from the city to the suburbs only there was something wrong with their house. It was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside.
“The House of Leaves” is basically “The Navidson Record” with the addition of lengthily footnotes from Johnny Truant about his reaction to the book and the strange things that start occurring to him. There are many appendices which include various correspondences, poems, pictures, etc.
Parts of the book are pure genius; other parts pure horror. Some parts, however, are just plain tedious to get through.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037...Fencoding=UTF8
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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