House of Leaves

There are many layers to this book, and way too many pages. Only the first and last 100 pages (the appendix) worked for me, and most of the things it tries to do bored me.

House of Leaves is a great satire of “academic” writing. It's also a horror story that isn't scary or unsettling, and a bunch of experimental storytelling that should have ended after 100 pages. The novelty and the meta-cleverness of it all wears off eventually, and at that point I felt like I was actually forcing myself to read some anthropological nonsense.