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I don't talk about books enough. I love books, and if you don't, you're going to burn in the devil's underpants.
I am currently enjoying:
Saramago's book The Blindness is fantastic (haven't seen the movie). This is about a guy who sees someone who looks JUST like him in an old film. The guy becomes obsessed with finding out who the guy is, where he is, etc. I'm halfway into it and it's good so far. With Saramago, he writes in basically one huge paragraph with no quotation marks, but once you get used to it, it's good.
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I can not recommend this book enough. I mean, it's no Clive Barker novel, but it is bloody GOOD. Second time reading this. Just as creepy as I remember. I don't know why, but something about a house expanding/contracting, rooms where they shouldn't be, dark spaces, growls, scares the SHIT out of me. I'd call it experimental fiction, since it has another story told through footnotes, various appendices, etc.
Plot summary from wiki should intrigue you:
Upon returning from a trip to Seattle, the Navidson family discovers a change in their home. A closet-like space shut behind an undecorated door appears inexplicably where previously there was only a blank wall. A second door appears at the end of the closet, leading to the children's room. As Navidson investigates this phenomenon, he finds that the internal measurements of the house are somehow larger than external measurements. Initially there is less than an inch of difference, but as time passes the interior of the house is found to be seemingly expanding, while maintaining the same exterior proportions. A third change asserts itself: a dark, cold hallway in their living room wall that, physically, should extend out into their yard, but doesn't. Navidson films this strange place, looping around the house to show where the space should be and clearly is not. The filming of this anomaly comes to be referred to as "The Five and a Half Minute Hallway". This hallway leads to a maze-like complex, starting with a large room (the "Anteroom"), which in turn leads to a truly enormous space (the "Great Hall"), a room primarily distinguished by an enormous spiral staircase which appears, when viewed from the landing, to spiral down without end. There is also a multitude of corridors and rooms leading off from each passage. All of these rooms and hallways are completely unlit and featureless, consisting of smooth ash-grey walls, floors, and ceilings. The only sound disturbing the perfect silence of the hallways is a periodic low growl.
Interesting side-note: The singer Poe's excellent album Haunted is about this book, written by her brother.
I am currently enjoying:
Saramago's book The Blindness is fantastic (haven't seen the movie). This is about a guy who sees someone who looks JUST like him in an old film. The guy becomes obsessed with finding out who the guy is, where he is, etc. I'm halfway into it and it's good so far. With Saramago, he writes in basically one huge paragraph with no quotation marks, but once you get used to it, it's good.
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I can not recommend this book enough. I mean, it's no Clive Barker novel, but it is bloody GOOD. Second time reading this. Just as creepy as I remember. I don't know why, but something about a house expanding/contracting, rooms where they shouldn't be, dark spaces, growls, scares the SHIT out of me. I'd call it experimental fiction, since it has another story told through footnotes, various appendices, etc.
Plot summary from wiki should intrigue you:
Upon returning from a trip to Seattle, the Navidson family discovers a change in their home. A closet-like space shut behind an undecorated door appears inexplicably where previously there was only a blank wall. A second door appears at the end of the closet, leading to the children's room. As Navidson investigates this phenomenon, he finds that the internal measurements of the house are somehow larger than external measurements. Initially there is less than an inch of difference, but as time passes the interior of the house is found to be seemingly expanding, while maintaining the same exterior proportions. A third change asserts itself: a dark, cold hallway in their living room wall that, physically, should extend out into their yard, but doesn't. Navidson films this strange place, looping around the house to show where the space should be and clearly is not. The filming of this anomaly comes to be referred to as "The Five and a Half Minute Hallway". This hallway leads to a maze-like complex, starting with a large room (the "Anteroom"), which in turn leads to a truly enormous space (the "Great Hall"), a room primarily distinguished by an enormous spiral staircase which appears, when viewed from the landing, to spiral down without end. There is also a multitude of corridors and rooms leading off from each passage. All of these rooms and hallways are completely unlit and featureless, consisting of smooth ash-grey walls, floors, and ceilings. The only sound disturbing the perfect silence of the hallways is a periodic low growl.
Interesting side-note: The singer Poe's excellent album Haunted is about this book, written by her brother.