re: A Book that made you ask "What did I just Read?"

The first three-fourths of the echoes chapter almost gave me an aneurysm.

Jaw on the floor type stuff throughout. That book left me thinking about it for weeks after I read it. Probably will read it again this year I enjoyed it so much. Glad you enjoyed it.

I am a cat

The best character, the cat, gets overshadowed by im guessing weirdly translated dialogue by bland characters. It was also really fricking long. Enjoyed the parts where the cat was featured.

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My copy is on the way. I’m becoming much more comfortable with the style of House of Leaves. The Ed. note near the end of one chapter that calls Truant’s writing “impenetrable” is pretty accurate. Things are picking up, though

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Just got through reading this. The book definitely tries to break the reader from trying to understand the writing completely, with the back and forth of every literary device, format. Really pushes the boundaries of variation. It’s a Roulette of novels; you’ll go crazy trying to master it, use only for entertainment.

I have two:
1. A Clockwork Orange - a wild, violent ride with a language created by the author, Burgess. Constantly checking the glossary to look up the meaning of a wrod used.
2. City of Joy - a deeply emotional, almost religious experience, about the ability of people to overcome some of the worst conditions on earth.
A very moving book that make you realize how easy we have it in the west.

The footnotes (close to 500 at this point), though completely necessary to the story as the author chose to tell it, are pretty exhausting. That being said, the read has become exhilarating.

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr

Still not sure what I read but I think I enjoyed it ha

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I couldn't make it thru Naked Lunch

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I wanted to get in a time machine and beat the shite out of Bukowski. He’s a good writer, and I like the genre. But shite.

The Magus by FowleS was a much less disgusting WTF?

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I have started to make it a point to read one typical "assigned in highschool" book a year. I was dumb and would avoid reading them because I was told to read it, but I try to fit in a classic every year

This year is Frankenstein. Never read it. Only reference is the movies.

Not a single movie is like the book and that has me saying wtf

Because I was expecting Igor, a moaning monster, and a mad scientist. But no Igor, it's an articulate monster that is self aware, and an obsessive scientist that was immediately freaked out by what he did and didn't see it for two years

No manic screaming "it's alive!"

But that is on me in the end

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it's so fricking good though. Frankenstein and Dracula are both great reads

When the local craze was all about "Confederacy of Dunces", being a N.O. native, I read it. Waste of time.