I have my mom’s copy of house of leaves, she died 2 years ago 💔 she was my favorite person on earth and I miss her so much

and I really want to get past the first 100 pages, but finding it hard to

she was an avid reader of difficult texts and books, and said it was one of her favorite fiction books, so for that reason I have been searching Reddit to get some perspective on how to get into it

I’m finding it difficult to get into , have tried multiple times but I am committed to reading the whole thing as a tribute to my mom

I know that may sound odd to some, but I want that connection 🩵 somehow

any advice on how to approach it ?

  • mind_the_umlaut@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think that the author of HOL is playing a joke on us readers. He starts off sincere, except for the fake footnotes, then diverges into more and more time-wasting trash. HOL contains a hell of a good novella that needed a good editor. I felt patronized and taken advantage of, with the author snickering and thinking “look, they are still trying to see something deeper in this”. Read the mother’s letters when you get to where they are mentioned.