House of Leaves - more than just a gimmick?

[jd]

I think House of Leaves was well done as an experiment.  I feel that
he worked it less as a gimmick and more as he intended it to be -
whereas I feel DFW sort of said to himself, hey, I've got a story,
let's put some footnotes in there and make it experimental, I feel
Danielewski thought something along the lines of, so I have this idea
for a crazy experimental story, now where do I begin?  ...if you get
what I'm saying.  As in, the experimental element of DFW is sort of
forced upon it whereas for HOL it was always inherent to it.  Just my
take.

On 9/13/06, pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >With regard to
> > the 'innovative' typographhy and layout, and the
> > footnotes and mock academic
> > references, I found a little goes a long way, and a
> > lot becomes unbearable.
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> I'd have to agree re just about any novel with
> experimental type after Tristram Shandy.  I don't
> think the "modernized" versions with ordinary type and
> contemporary English spelling are worth reading.
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