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Off the Shelf
By Hilary Krutt
| Wednesday, October 07, 2015
It is too mild to say that I have never read anything like House of Leaves. In
fact, I’ve never read anything that even lands in its realm. Long before I
finally picked it up myself, I had heard rumblings of its power—it had been
deemed the scariest book some had ever read, and also the sexiest. Friends
told me that it had altered their lives in ways big and small. Johnny Truant,
the novel’s narrator, issues an ominous warning to readers in the
introduction: “This much I’m certain of: it doesn’t happen immediately.
You’ll finish and that will be that, until a moment will come . . . you’ll
suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all.”READ
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