Momentary Pause in Reading for a Quick Book Review

[scarpe_scrappy]

Only Revolutions, Mark L Danielewski

(I'll preface this review with the fact that I never made it all the way through House of Leaves because I got bored and angry by the overabundance of footnotes and house abuse. Take that as you will

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[dmax]

Dammit ScrappyDoo, you don't read my posts, do you?

Go read the wikipedia entry before you blow a gasket.

[dmax]

http://dmax801.livejournal.com/

Dur.

[deridere]

After reading your review, I'm sorely tempted to return my copy.

[dmax]

There's a lot more to the structure of the the book than the literature of it.

http://www.houseofleaves.com/forum/showthread.php?p=80730#post80730

"Every seventy-two pages (nine revolutions) a major event or turning point in the story takes place.

1 - 72: The Mountain, Traveling to New Orleans
73 - 144: New Orleans
145 - 216: St Louis
217 - 288: Left St Louis, Engagement
289 - 360: Marriage and Death/The Mountain

Over 360 pages we have the revolution of one life, over 720 pages we have the revolution of two lives.

Life is Only Revolutions."

and then there's the list of hidden things - ARG-like:

http://www.houseofleaves.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4324

Including first letters of sentences spelling "messages" to us. At the point where Sam gets oral sex, the first letters spell ABEEJ - etc...