Elliott Eno, Bookseller
My name is Elliott Eno and I'm a senior art student at UMF. Alongside being an avid reader, I'm also a film fanatic (so don't be afraid to ask for a film recommendation).
House of Leaves isn't your regular Sunday afternoon read. Like the main character searching obsessively through notes of a documentary film (one in which there is no evidence of its existence) you will also become obsessed. At times there is only a couple of words on a single page, and before you know it you are hundred pages deeper into the book, just like the main character searching through notes, and even more so like Navidson, the character in the notes themselves who finds himself in the impossible depths of his own house. The notes become their own narrative.These two narratives occur simultaneously.
The book covers many topics from literary criticism and interpretation to what it means to exist in the space of a house, for a family to function as a unit, and the ways that it often doesn't. The book lends itself to interpretation with infinite possibilities. It truly deserves the time that it requires.