Horror is probably my favorite genre of literature. I'd say more than half of the books I read and have read are horror. After seeing a few reviews and recommendations on the House of Leaves I was very intrigued.

House of Leaves is a very challenging read. The story follows the main character Johnny Truant who finds an incomplete manuscript written by a recently deceased man named Zampano. The manuscript is a documentary of a photojourn*list by the name of Will Navidson and his wife Karen who have purchased a house which they soon find is larger on the inside than the outside.

House of Leaves has footnotes. It has footnotes of footnotes and appendixes of footnotes and footnotes with appendixes. It has footnotes from both Zampano and Johnny Truant.

Its writing style is difficult to follow, often makes you turn the book upside down or on its side, and is overall kind of fricking boring. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool book. The concept is incredible and such a unique experience. Unfortunately, so often throughout this book, I found myself wishing it would stay on track and continue the main story of the Navidson Record (the storyline I found most interesting)

More than half of this book is about Johnny Truant slowly losing his mind as he compiles Zampanos manuscript, Truant's heavy drug abuse and s*x addiction, and chapters long mind numbingly boring descriptions of the meaning and origin of words by Zampano.

With that said, would I recommend a new reader altogether skip Johnny Truants storyline? I can't say that I would. It does round out the novel and serve a deeper meaning. Understanding Truants state of mind while he is compiling House of Leaves is essential to understanding the house in itself.

Overall I'd give the book an 8/10. I finished in a week and even with its boring parts I could not put it down. I would recommend anyone who enjoys literature read this book. This book is more of an experience than a story. Its ability to drag you in and immerse you is truly unmatched.

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Albanian hoejabis are lost cause. They will keep inbreeding for other races but albanians no. pic.twitter.com/ejKHvKjHfr

— Albanian_monitor (@Albanoi_monitor) May 4, 2024

!catholics your thoughts?

@DahvieVanityFan how many north albanian women do you have in your harem?

Not only did Columbia make the horrific decision to mobilize NYPD on their own students, but the units called in have some of the most violent reputations on the force.

NYPD had promised the city they wouldn’t deploy SRG to protests.

So why are these counterterror units here? https://t.co/nfDVfueNSz

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 24, 2024

Mission failed, he will get it trough next time

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how things went

i'm really sorry I made a mistake the first time, my man, but can you blame me for not clarifying further? https://t.co/vldCvtLynt pic.twitter.com/DTNfuGpP1u

— KayJae (@KayJae24) May 16, 2024

新しい日本のキノが登場！

すごい新しい日本のキノがドロップしました。この可愛いけど強くて勇敢な少女が困難に立ち向かい、勝利をおさめます。裸足のショットが多く、クリエイターの高度なアニメーション技術を示しています

楽しんでくれると嬉しいです、ドラマターズ！

What's some use you guys have gotten out of the edit logging feature, lately? Have your feelings on it changed?

Aevann says the use case is for drafting effortposts and preventing time-wasting mistakes, but tbh I'm not convinced it's of much help when the text editor is naked and the preview feature doesn't really give you an idea of what your post will look like with half the features- better to work in notepad.

!effortposters this feature carries on in your name so definitely make your voices heard!

To the rest of us !dramatards and !poll_voters, edit logging affects everyone.