House of Leaves

This is really the most amazing book I have ever read. It uses the written word in ways that subjects the reader to the psychological affects of the current narrator. I wish I could write a story like this. It starts off very slow but by page 144 the tension is already at a level unimaginable.




Anyone know of any similar holy-shit kinda books?

“Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name.

And then the nightmares will begin.”


- House of Leaves