House of Leaves

House of Leaves

                 is                                a                                                    book

by                                       



                                  Mark                



                                                         Z.               



                                                                                      Danielewski,



and though it has been published in year 2000







it came to my attention



recently.





It is a great book on several levels -





                                                                          first



                                                                                     it



                                                                                          is



                                                                                                closed



                                                                                                             into



                                                                                                                     itself







(Navidson is reading a book called "House of Leaves" in his final return to the



house,

                     so there                                                                            is a closure of the

                                                     labyrinth universe

right                                                                                                                              there),



                                              and

                                  horror         love

                       great                              story*

                    a

               is

             it

second



*for true love invokes true horrors



and last                                                                                                  but not least there are all kinds of puzzles,                                                                                                              codes and hidden





passages





throughout                 the book. 

It is                                       i

                                            n

                                            t

                                            e

                                            l

                                            l

                                            e

                                            c

                                            t

                                            u

                                            a

                                            l

                                            l

                                            y



challenging and difficult                  to navigate a verbal

                                   and

 

 r p i a
g a h c l

                                   m

                                   a   z

         e.

 

And there are a lot of questions, questions within questions, subtly layed out for the reader, and for his/hers place in the whole story

{This is not for you. }

I am closing the last line and when I do cross it, I will write something more (though as I've heard there is a whole forum dedicated to that book).
In any case - definitely a must read.