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readhard:

Dear Read Hard!,
Sorry again for the delay, but as you know, we have wrapped up Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin,” and are moving on to our next book. If you have any other thoughts or reviews you wish to put up, feel free to do so during the next few days. As for the next book, as something of a late reaction to Halloween, we have chosen to read Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves.”
It’s a work notorious for genre-bending, experimental formatting, and exercising effective scare-tactics for those who dare read it, but also pulls them in so that they cannot put it down. A mouthful, yeah, but I think it’s a well-deserved reputation. I think the history behind the novel’s really interesting as well, but I’ll save that for another post.
A summary from the novel’s jacket:

“The story [… focuses] on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all of their dreams.”

Are you intrigued yet?
Read More.
OMG WE ARE READING HOUSE OF LEAVES FOR READHARD. I THINK YOU SHOULD COME AND JOIN US.
Y AM I DOING DIS.

FUCK YEAH YOU ARE GOING TO SHIT BRICKS.

readhard:

Dear Read Hard!,

Sorry again for the delay, but as you know, we have wrapped up Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin,” and are moving on to our next book. If you have any other thoughts or reviews you wish to put up, feel free to do so during the next few days. As for the next book, as something of a late reaction to Halloween, we have chosen to read Mark Z. Danielewski’s “House of Leaves.”

It’s a work notorious for genre-bending, experimental formatting, and exercising effective scare-tactics for those who dare read it, but also pulls them in so that they cannot put it down. A mouthful, yeah, but I think it’s a well-deserved reputation. I think the history behind the novel’s really interesting as well, but I’ll save that for another post.

A summary from the novel’s jacket:

“The story [… focuses] on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all of their dreams.”

Are you intrigued yet?
Read More.

OMG WE ARE READING HOUSE OF LEAVES FOR READHARD. I THINK YOU SHOULD COME AND JOIN US.

Y AM I DOING DIS.

FUCK YEAH YOU ARE GOING TO SHIT BRICKS.

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reblogging for future reference. i need something good after ‘the perks of being a motherfucking wallflower’
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Ohhh my god! I started reading this my last year...graduated. That’s
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at Read Hard! We’re reading...very interesting book
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