chrisonsputnik: House Of Leaves

SeaAnemone 12.20.09	House of Leaves >>>>>>>>>>>> Fall of Troy
chrisonsputnik 12.20.09	If anyones read it let me know what you thought. cheeers, ALSO can I please get stuff that sounds like The Fall Of Troy, everything that Ive found already doesnt quite seem to fulfill what I want :(
SeaAnemone 12.20.09	favorite book ever (by no means the best book I' ve ever read but still), incredibly involving and interesting. fastest 1,000 or so pages I've ever read.
Athom 12.20.09	great book, also, i find it funny to see it tied into FoT on the list given that some of the songs on Doppelganger were inspired by it.
PayneTiger777 12.20.09	I really want to read that as well. Have you heard of Poe?
joshuatree 12.20.09	"fastest 1,000 or so pages I've ever read" so is this total typo or have you not actually read the book
SeaAnemone 12.20.09	haha I was worried someone would catch that... books not with me atm and I haven't picked it up for a year... what's it really? like 700?
Athom 12.20.09	i didnt find it a quick read at all.
chrisonsputnik 12.20.09	its 709 pages to be exact ;) but yeah its incredible, I love Truants insane ramblings/daydreams. redskyformiles: yeah I got turned onto the book by those Fall Of Troy songs hence maybe why they are on this.
Homewrecker 12.20.09	I liked it, but it's really not as deep or insane as it's made out to be. It's interesting and a good read, but it's the pop music of experimental prose.
chrisonsputnik 12.20.09	fromtheinside: READ IT!! Its so worth it.
SeaAnemone 12.20.09	I read it too fast the first time, didn't catch 50% of the stuff, went back and read it again and still didn't feel like I got a lot of it haha
joshuatree 12.20.09	homewrecker's kind of right i mean it's nowhere near bad, but it's only totally experimental and different if you, like, had only read a bunch of stephen king novels before you read house of leaves. it's interesting, but there's a lot deeper and ultimately more intriguing stuff you can get when it comes to experimental prose.
chrisonsputnik 12.20.09	thats true but its still an interesting book :)
Athom 12.20.09	i just remembered, Cam, about a year ago you told me to read Journey to the End of the Night. great fucking book.
SeaAnemone 12.20.09	not to get too off topic... but I'm one of those ppl who only read King/Vonnegut/Crighton/Palahniuk shit... and experimental prose sounds interesting, especially with so much free time on break, mind giving me a few essential recommendations?
Homewrecker 12.20.09	Gravity's Rainbow and Naked Lunch
joshuatree 12.20.09	"i just remembered, Cam, about a year ago you told me to read Journey to the End of the Night. great fucking book." fuck yeah, man. bardamu's such a great protagonist, and it's such a misanthropic book, love it. haven't read that in years. "mind giving me a few essential recommendations?" the term "experimental prose" is kind of broad, but i'll just rec some weird stuff i first read after getting out of the same phase you're in Naked Lunch Thomas Pynchon's early stuff, especially The Crying of Lot 49, great book to start with him David Foster Wallace; start with Brief Interviews With Hideous Men than work up to Infinite Jest, which is my favorite book evereverever Gerald's Party some T.S. Elliot poems, especially The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock everything Joyce ever wrote the rest of the Beats not really experimental but Bukowski and Miller that should last you till college
Athom 12.20.09	i cant remember the name of the author but i read if on a winter's night a traveler a while back and that was playful and rather inventive with it's style.
EyesWideShut 12.20.09	Homewrecker knows where its at with Naked Lunch. The Wasp Factory and American Phycho is also good. Im reading Johnny Got His Gun right now.
FattyKnee 12.20.09	i read it awhile awhile back and it was incredible. The way he put placed the text on the page was sweet. It mirrored what was happening in the story. The side story was kind of annoying at times
Niceinvader 12.20.09	It's so sad that david foster wallace committed suicide last year. I'm excited to read the last thing he was working on which was supposedly a multi-tiered drama of sorts. By the way Infinite Jest is a much better mindfuck then house of leaves, just try it out and you will no doubt get lost again and again.
Niceinvader 12.20.09	Try reading naked lunch all the way through with a fever of 102 with occasional lapses of consciousness.