New Mark Danielewski book out

[Jasper Fidget]

I've always been surprised by the number of people with decent literary
taste who heap praise upon it.  I enjoyed the gimmickry but found the
prose too poorly, awkwardly, clumsily written, especially the
first-person pov sections.  It feels much like the first novel it is.
Unless the first ~150 pages are not characteristic of the rest (that's
about all I could tolerate).

Jasper

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 13:48 -0500, David Morris wrote:
> I haven't read House of Leaves, so I just did a quick google on it.
> The gist of waht I've read on it is that it's ambitious, multi-layered
> and narrated, maybe a little too long, and relies overly much on
> typographical games (and the new double-sided book seems maybe of the
> same sort of cuteness type-wise).  That said (and maybe wrong) how
> would any others of you rate HOL?
> 
> David