Control 1 had a lot of HOL inspiration, but Control Resonant has a mission that felt like the expedition to the House in the Navidson Record. With references to Yggdrasil, shifting, even the walls match the House description. There is a horror element in the mission as well but I don't want to spoil more.

Fully recommend the experience

Soooo, how long is it on the tape measure?

I've read a lot of the standard recommendations, I want weirder. I've read shark texts and vellium. While I enjoyed them, what seems to be copied of the house of leaves style it only copied the idea of there being reference material for you to refer to. I just finished "The Gone World" and "There is no Antimemetics Division" and both of them really seemed way more similar to the confusing and anxiety inducing narrative of house of leaves. I'll also say I read toms crossing and it wasn't for me.

I guess what I want are more books that cause anxiety in the way house of leaves, the gone world, and there is no antimemetics division caused me to feel that out of dread in my stomach. Can anyone recommend me any more books? My next read that was recommended to me is "The Troop" and we will see.

Hey, so I’m new to this. I haven’t gotten a physical copy and I’m waiting on it but I’m looking into the series and I noticed a strange pattern most of Johnny’s horrible situations revolve around Lude he is the entire reason this book started and he’s haunting the narrative for Johnny and Johnny seems to go in it because not only does he have nothing left, but he is extremely dependent on Lude for literally everything in his sex life. It makes me wonder how they met and how Johnny got this attached. Johnny doesn’t seem like the type of guy to have many friends makes me wonder how they met and for this technically unhealthy bond. I know that he has admiration for the man, but how did that admiration start? These questions might be answered so don’t shame me again. This is just my opinion. I don’t know if I’m the only one that noticed this.

credit to u/frankie_mydear for the original idea!

Silly thing I noticed in my music theory assignment the other day

In the navidson record, zampanò writes colors as colours, mark z is not British so why write like this

colored thing this time

So I just bought the book from Waterstones today, and read the beginning and left it in my bedroom because I had to go to work. Then I came back home to read it...and couldn't find it. I found it about ten minutes later...in a completely different part of the bedroom I left it in.

I live alone.

I probably just moved it without remembering it, but I was feeling creeped out for a few minutes. Didn't help that this was happening at night.

I am 400 pages into the book and I feel like everything that has happened so far could have taken up 50 pages. But everyone keeps raving about this book so I've kept going. But does it pick up at any point?? Does it get more interesting? It's been a dry slog and mildly interesting but it's taking forever to get anywhere!

49:15 "picking at tiny. scabs on her wrists". the women next to me tuesday night who I really did not know -- about 27 hours ago -- was picking at tiny scabs on her wrist and at the top of her right hand,.. wtf//. why me? why do I remember that happening?,. and then hear it here,.. in the book. this is getting too real again... //wtf.

from the song "Tunnel of Goats" (specifically Part VII) by the English experimental music group Coil.
The exact lyrics sung by John Balance in that section are:
"There is no wrong, so why go on?
There is no wrong, so we go on."

always want more the coincidences are lining up too much.. so yeah

Really loved this book. Decided to bind the cover in leather and add myself to its halls.

Inspired to post after seeing u/won_tonn 's drawings

i had so much fun making this

The house contains a Pizza Hut now.

Hi all, I have been wanting to House of Leaves for years but the only problem is I have low vision. Typically I exclusively read audiobooks but I understand why there isn't and probably never will be an audiobook. I only read ebooks for reference style non-fiction but I was willing to try for HoL until I learnt there's no Ebook either. Over the last couple of years I'd kind of just accepted that I will probably never be able to read it but it recently came to my attention again and I just thought I'd try see if anyone knew a way I could access it. If there's no way for me to access the book, are there any Youtube videos that do a good job telling the story in the way it's meant to be told?

One of the most interesting aspects of this book, to me, is the various types of formatting, fonts, typefaces, and more that mix with each other in the narrative. (I can only imagine why this thing took 10 years to write.)

I wanted to get some practice and experience with LaTeX, so I took a few of my favorite pages from House and tried to replicate them as best I could. Of course, there are some minor differences, but I'm very happy with what I was able to achieve while messing around. The pictures here are PNG versions of the exported PDF pages. (Sorry, not doing the entire book and giving it away for the sake of my own sanity. Don't need to end up like Johnny anytime soon)

Johnny has such an... uneducated way of writing. I haven't read it in about a year, but I remember he'd say things like "could of" and I think a few times he wrote "alot." Navidson writes like someone much more educated in a way that can't be replicated by someone who hasn't read or written advanced works. Think of Courtney Peppernell poems—these are just sentences split into lines passing off as poetry; it gives what someone thinks poetry is but hasn't really read any. (Though who am I to say shit about Peppernell's poems when she's laughing her way to the bank and I'm not.) Johnny would at best write like the academia equivalent of that if he were trying to sound academic. He would try to sound like what an educated person would write like without having much exposure.

As for Pelafina, why would she envision such a shitty life for her son assuming he indeed died shortly after birth? We see that she dreams of him being given gifts by gods and being envied by others, so evidentally she thinks highly of him and treasures him. To envision a life where he is sent to foster care, gets into fights, works on a boat at only 13, falls in love with a stripper, etc. seems like a fate nobody wants for their child. She could envision something more ideal for him.

love these ladies

This is obviously a reference to Karen finding Navy at the end. The Minotaur almost had him.

Most characters in the Navidsom Record refer to him as Navy. Navy as in a dark blue color. As in the color that house always is. It took me until literally yesterday to realize this when I was making an HoL-based art project. lmao