House of Leaves

[Jeremy DEagle]

Ok... Have just started reading this and from the reviews at Amazon I'm in for a treat. It sounds like it could be amazing but I'm only a few pages in so will see how it goes...

[Jeremy DEagle]

Ok, its a tricky book to read, flitting all over the place as its a story within a story but it is very addictive. My missus found me reading half way day the stairs this morning!

[Hazel]

It was too tricksy for me JD, I gave up halfway through. But this was when it first came out, so I remember very little now.

[Jen]

I loved the idea of this book and the way that the tension built through the first part. As the novel progressed, I totally lost track of what was going on and felt like I was trapped inside the author's dream, one of those that goes round and round and then flits off somewhere else for no reason. It's been several years since I read it, but that's my abiding memory. At least I remember it!

[Jeremy DEagle]

What a frustrating novel... Its almost really good but not quite. Its too smart for its own good (or perhaps mine)...

[Petra]

Have just had this recommended to me by someone at work - so am now on the search for it

[FirelightSpirit]

Its almost really good but not quite. Its too smart for its own goodThat's a good way of putting it, Jeremy. I thought it was quite interesting, but in the end I think it tried to do too much. There were all sorts of tangents going on, and the way the book is laid out, though quirky, is a bit off-putting: I don't want to have to keep going back and forth and turning the book upside down to read it!