“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars.” Jorge Luis Borges – The Garden of Forking Paths
House of Leaves is a postmodernistic satire on the subject of epistemology.
The novel tells about strenuous efforts to explore and comprehend the enigmatic phenomenon of the mysterious house…

Again that faint growl returns, rolling through the darkness like thunder.
Navidson quickly does an about face and returns to the doorway. Only now he discovers that the penny he left behind, which should have been at least a hundred feet further, lies directly before him. Even stranger, the doorway is no longer the doorway but the arch he had been looking for all along.
Unfortunately as he steps through it, he immediately sees how drastically everything has changed. The corridor is now much narrower and ends very quickly in a T. He has no idea which way to go, and when a third growl ripples through that place, this time significantly louder, Navidson panics and starts to run.

House of Leaves consists of mystifications within mystifications… There are four levels of hoax:
1. Will Navidson – a career photojournalist of dubious repute – shoots the film about the mysteries of his house.
2. Zampanò – a very old blind man – describes, annotates and analyzes this film and then dies.
3. Johnny Truant – a young pathological liar – finds the notes, edits and arranges them, supplies them with his irrelevant and vulgar but colourful commentaries and publishes the text.
4. The hypothetical publishing editors provide footnotes that make the publication look smartly scientific and strictly academic.
Magnificent!
As a result, House of Leaves reads as the ultimate book of Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges with an obvious mocking touch of The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe…

Aside from recurrence, revision, and commensurate symbolic reference, echoes also reveal emptiness. Since objects always muffle or impede acoustic reflection, only empty places can create echoes of lasting clarity.

All the accumulated human knowledge is but a distorted echo of the surrounding reality.

Come on, if you haven't seen the videos about it yet, than what are you even doing? Myhouse is supposedly based around this novel here, and I have got to say, I love it. I have been reading this novel for a while now, I have loved every part about it

I'm literally only reading this because of a Youtube video i watched about a Doom map mod that is supposedly inspired by this book and has been doing the rounds getting nothing but praise. so i downloaded the file, had to learn how to even use it, and played it for a good few hours, finding new tuff and rooms each time. I think the mod is mostly based on the Navidson report as I'm not far into the book, so can't say for sure if thats the only part its inspired by. So far its been an interesting read. I'll likely edit this as i get further in. Archive is the best place to read stuff uz they are scans of physical books and not just digital copies of the text, which with the way this books written, the archive way is best. plus i love seeing the paper, and seeing the letters show through from the other sides of the page. i honestly think its how all digital books should be done.