![]() Alongside this, are Truant’s footnotes, which are often rambling and confused, echoing the unravelling of the minds of Zampano, Holloway (an expert explorer who attempts to understand the house from the inside), Johnny’s mother (as hinted at in his footnotes, and confirmed in one of the book’s many appendices), and even the madness inherent in the house. The dimensions outside the house never change, but inside, they do, in an unlikely, impossible,sometimes sudden, and horrific way. Zampano’s manuscript is an academic study of a (fictional) film called ‘The Navidson Record’, which captures the explorations of Will Navidson, and various others, into the ever-changing darkness of Navidson’s home. It tells the story of Johnny Truant, an aspiring tattoo artist who begins to compile the notes of a recently-deceased blind man named Zampano. House of Leaves tells a story within a story (and possibly more within more). However, don’t take this the wrong way – I thought it was insanely clever and it’s strangeness wasn’t a bad strangeness. It was a mind-bender in both story and style, and when I finished, I felt as though my brain was going to explode. ![]() House of Leaves was, quite honestly, the oddest novel I have ever read. ![]()
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