The Southern Reach trilogy isn’t given enough credit. Vander Meer does an amazing job explaining the unexplainable and his prose is pretty fucking beautiful, despite its modernity.
House of Leaves, which I’m in the middle of right now, is an all-consuming void and occupies my mind pretty much constantly. Which is cool, given the subject matter.
I’ve been trying to get so many people to read Southern Reach Trilogy. It’s a fantastic slow burn that doesn’t fill in too much and let’s you think on it. I’ve actually gotten a friend to read House of Leaves before she’s been willing to look at Southern Reach though. I have no idea what magic words I’m missing to sell it better.
Oh, also, if you enjoy House of Leaves you should check out Siderius Plug’s Immortality in Ninety-nine Endnotes I’ve heard good and similar things (though obviously much shorter and more hands on being a solo ttrpg). It’s sitting on my stairs (where my books to read lay since wife filled our bookshelf) as my next “read”.
House of leaves was the first time I ever even considered a book could be like that. Kinda like watching Memento for the first time, or a Kubrick film or something. It’s just on another level of crafting a narrative at every level.
I thought for sure it had to be one of a kind, but it makes sense there’s a rabbit hole of a genre to go down and that it leads to solo ttrpg territory lol
The Southern Reach trilogy isn’t given enough credit. Vander Meer does an amazing job explaining the unexplainable and his prose is pretty fucking beautiful, despite its modernity.
House of Leaves, which I’m in the middle of right now, is an all-consuming void and occupies my mind pretty much constantly. Which is cool, given the subject matter.
I’ve been trying to get so many people to read Southern Reach Trilogy. It’s a fantastic slow burn that doesn’t fill in too much and let’s you think on it. I’ve actually gotten a friend to read House of Leaves before she’s been willing to look at Southern Reach though. I have no idea what magic words I’m missing to sell it better.
Oh, also, if you enjoy House of Leaves you should check out Siderius Plug’s Immortality in Ninety-nine Endnotes I’ve heard good and similar things (though obviously much shorter and more hands on being a solo ttrpg). It’s sitting on my stairs (where my books to read lay since wife filled our bookshelf) as my next “read”.
Hmm, this slope is feeling slippery all of a sudden
The genre is ergodic literature. It’s a very slippery slope. I’m just embracing it and sliding down headfirst
House of leaves was the first time I ever even considered a book could be like that. Kinda like watching Memento for the first time, or a Kubrick film or something. It’s just on another level of crafting a narrative at every level.
I thought for sure it had to be one of a kind, but it makes sense there’s a rabbit hole of a genre to go down and that it leads to solo ttrpg territory lol