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Midway thoughts on book

I'm a little over a seventh of the way into House of Leaves and thought I'd share my current opinion(without any major spoilers)---largely just so I can look back on it.

So far Zampano's book and The Navidson Record are incredibly interesting, and while at times it may seem he rambles, I've found it pays off. I look forward to seeing what further developments revolve around the closet, and whether or not they will eventually move on from it and have the house shift to reveal some new, impossible oddity. At the same time I'm not sure as so far it feels---though who knows if it'll stay like this---like things are about to go terribly wrong at the closet (in part they've already started to).

Truant also provides some interesting background information and he at his best he too can be rather interesting. But every now and then he throws a run on sentence spanning across the page(one even seemed to be two in length, but I might have missed so periods in all that mess of words). Then there's the bigger thing I find annoying about his perspective.

Sex

For the love of whoever has the authority to silence you, shut up about sex. And strippers, and breasts, and legs, and how all the girls look, and their privates, and cum, and doing drugs while thinking about sex, and again, sex. It provides nothing to the story but I keep having to read it anyways to make sure I don't miss out in anything important.

I like me thrilling and surreal meta-mystery without crappy adult smut, personally

But that aside the story is going well, still a lot to uncover and fail at understanding as it's 709 pages long, will update later.

Reading fanfic these days is so difficult because it’s almost all smut, you don’t have to really be that creative to get popular you just need to write some gross kinky shit and boom you’re top of the tag.

Not dissing people who like to read/write this stuff it’s just frustrating to try and get a story with a fun plot these days