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Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves (Paperback, 2006, Pantheon)

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover …

Do you like puzzles?

The most important thing to know about this book is that it gives you homework. If you actually want to get much out of the book, you have to solve its puzzles, and check the appendices, and cross-reference all the footnotes, then check the appendices again, then get a Ph.D. in House of Leaves and write a dissertation about it (I'm only exaggerating a little).

If that sounds like a good time to you, then this could be your favorite book. As I understand it, it's many people's favorite book.

Otherwise, it's a decent couple of interconnected stories with a few strange twists wrapped inside an incredibly tedious "academic" review of a documentary that may or may not have existed (note: this is not a spoiler, it's literally said in the introduction).