amarok2005
Ephemeral Spectre
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- Aug 26, 2005
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Well, I started the plunge and began House of Leaves again after several years. I'm up to page 50 with 600+ pages to go, but I was hooked by page 8. Much of the book is dedicated to describing what the protagonists are catching on video tape; certainly there are overtones of Ringu movies and Blair Witch. I'm surprised someone hasn't tried to recreate the tapes, professionally or fannishly.
I find all the comments and references and footnotes fascinating, but I've always tried to draw maps of HPL's Dream-World and write encyclopedias of Andre Norton's and Manly W. Wellman's fiction. I can see how the casual writer would become frustrated with it. (I've been getting tired myself of the narrations wrapped around other narrations, truth to tell.) But I intend to slog on!
I find all the comments and references and footnotes fascinating, but I've always tried to draw maps of HPL's Dream-World and write encyclopedias of Andre Norton's and Manly W. Wellman's fiction. I can see how the casual writer would become frustrated with it. (I've been getting tired myself of the narrations wrapped around other narrations, truth to tell.) But I intend to slog on!