Question of the Day!

once, last year, and it feels like the whole thing is still burning bright in my brain. personally, i found it amazing, but i understand why someone wouldn't like it.

should you get the color edition, you'll see that the word house is always printed in blue, not only in english but in any other languages that may show up. but only house. home, if memory serves me right, is always printed as normal. there are also references to the (a?) minotaur, all of which are red and struck out. often, the formatting of the text goes crazy - it turns into a spiral, changes orientation, etc., and there are a LOT of footnotes, some of which are references to real books, some of which are references to texts that don't exist, some of which read like a man losing his mind completely. some footnotes have their own footnotes even!

as for the story? i'd say there's four stories going at once (maybe more), which is one of the reasons why the book is considered impossible to adapt as a series or movie. some people feel like they need to skip the footnotes. me personally, i feel like the ones written by johnny truant (the man losing his mind) are absolutely necessary, even if they are extremely uncomfortable at times and very much "not safe for work", if you catch my drift. but they are one of the many stories in this book, after all. depending on which version you buy (or all? i'm not sure), you'll also get "the whalestoe letters" as an appendix, letters written by truant's mother while she was committed to a mental institution.

i'd also suggest checking out the album "haunted" by poe (danielewski's sister), which is a companion piece to the book.

so yeah, i guess i like this book a little.