Book by Mark Z Danielewski where:
A young LA tattoo artist named Johnny finds an unfinished academic paper (the incomplete life’s work of his friend’s murdered neighbor) that analyzes a cult documentary film, in which a family moves into a strange house, one that changes shape and size and hides an endless labyrinth in its walls. Johnny tries to edit and annotate the text, while journaling about his own life, as he starts to lose his mind.
It’s a story within a story within a story — about obsession, and hell, and grief and finding yourself lost (and I think a lot more), all written in the form of diary entries, transcripts, essays, poems, letters and footnotes. It reads like a choose your own adventure book, and is itself a monster and a maze. Pretty dark and really beautiful.
As a person obsessed with space, this was one of the books that spurred my obsession with it alongside The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
It’s a puzzle like book so definitely not a normal everyday book to reach out for, but intriguing nevertheless if you enjoy postmodern haunted houses or anything of the sort!
By elspeth barker Imma b real with you almost nothing ~happens~ in the novel but it’s about the beauty of the word type of thing. Super gothic and each sentence is insane ! Opening pages alone are worth a read
Or vinyl, i love the friction of having to flip sides halfway through the album, but walkmans also have portability and mixtapes (still the greatest way to share music with friends in my opinion)
