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Calvin's House of Leaves (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by MattW03@lemmy.ca to c/books@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/31096773

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24800.House_of_Leaves

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man that book was good though. I knew a few people who put measuring tape on the walls after reading it.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have it and still haven’t started. I should.

I have a laser measurer!

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Be sure to read

The manual

And the footnotes

All the footnotes

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I’m only 100 pages into Infinite Jest right now, I am horrible familiar with footnotes…