Zef The Owl
Senior Member
House of Leaves... I-I guess you could say it has plot twists? The book is hard to follow at times and feels more like an insane puzzle then it does an actual book at times. There's a coherent story in there, but the narrarator is unreliable and is a self-admitted liar.
Short summary, the main character is a tatoo artist who gets a bunch of transcripts from his dead elderly neighbor, where the neighbor appearently tried to do an editorial documentary on a book called "House of Leaves", only House of Leaves doesn't actually exist, the book. It never existed, and the elderly man's editorial pieces involve interviewing and quoting actors opinions about the book, who when looked into have never been approached about the book.
The book itself, House of Leaves, this book, within a transcript, within an editorial, within a book, is about a family moving in to a house which is too big on the inside, bigger then it is on the outside. You can go down a hallway that should go through the yard, but it doesn't. This creates this, insane labyrinth that causes madness, death and endless problems for the family.
So you're trying to follow this narrative:
First, you're reading House of Leaves, the book itself.
Then there's the dead neighbors editorial footnotes that you read ontop of that that give another perspective.
Then the Main Character's editorial footnotes ONTOP OF THAT, often referencing the old man's footnotes and devolving into insanity.
There's points in the book where you have multiple pages of nothing but footnotes, rambling about things that have nothing to do with House of Leaves.
Oh, and did I mention the Main Character starts losing their mind? And the pages start looking like this:
But it all makes sense when you put it together.
, Im used to the rpers that are like "ugh a new rper? 
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