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canopicfemme's review against another edition
2.25
the part’s about the navidson record we’re interesting at times, tho usually it was dull. Johnny’s segments were even worse. at best they were rambles that while connected to the navidson record stuff, were too long and branched off into random stories from his past. at worst the johnny segments were long, barely coherent ramblings that were not connected to anything.
this book does not need to be this long, there is so much unnecessary shit that should’ve been cut out. most of johnny’s ramblings, whatever the hell those pelican poems were, the random quotes at the end of the book (+ more) were unnecessary. the r slur is thrown in for some reason as well as ableist and racist remarks.
THE FUCKING MISOGYNY IN THIS BOOK. pretty much all the women are sexy, naive but intelligent, have basically the same personality, and johnny want’s to sleep with pretty much all of them and so the reader is subjected to multiple paragraphs of johnny just fantasising of sleeping with all these women and it’s like ????? what the fuck??? not a single well rounded woman in this book, ever single one of the women revolve entirely around their relationship to a man.
there’s also the use of rape as just a tragic backstory mentioned in a one off line for about 1/4 of the women in this book, not to mention the part where johnny fantasies about raping a woman.
there’s also the descriptions of unnecessarily gruesome animal death.
how this book has such a cult following is beyond me.
Graphic: Animal death, Rape, Violence, Death, Mental illness, and Sexual content
Moderate: Child abuse and Drug abuse
Minor: Ableism, Racism, and Cancer
laneport's review
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Sexual violence, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Addiction, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape
Moderate: Physical abuse
Minor: Cancer, Car accident, and Medical content
addyruth17's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Animal death, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Alcohol
Minor: Car accident, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Infidelity
cosmicsapphic's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Vomit, Gore, Grief, Drug abuse, and Death
Minor: Rape
ggcd1981's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Abandonment, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, Confinement, Death, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Car accident, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Ableism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Rape and Excrement
woweewhoa's review against another edition
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Body horror, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Blood
Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Ableism, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Suicide, Vomit, Physical abuse, Rape, Car accident, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Excrement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content
Minor: Homophobia and Cancer
octopus_farmer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Confinement, and Death
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Sexual assault
random19379's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Grief, Rape, Mental illness, Gore, Death, Death of parent, Torture, Addiction, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts
sonnygrey's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Suicide, Animal death, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Violence, Death, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Sexism, Child abuse, Addiction, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Death of parent, and Grief
Minor: Infidelity, Rape, War, and Child death
danielle2121's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This was the most insane experience of reading a book, ever. Truly I’ve never read anything like House of Leaves in my life.
The more I keep thinking about it the more I keep slotting things into this giant puzzle of a story and the more real it feels even though I know it’s fictional. (I think…)
I’ve heard so many people say they felt a weird confusion between fiction and reality whilst reading this book and I kept thinking, surely not… there’s no way a book can do that! But it did! It delivered!
I was baffled, confused and disoriented within this mind f*** of a book, but not once did I find myself unable to follow the plot and I think that’s what I loved about this the most, I really do respect this book for what it did and how easily readable it was even when reading it… wasn’t physically easy at all.
If you’re going to read House of Leaves, go into it knowing almost nothing, I think that’s the best way. Just take every page at a time and try not to rush, bask in its strange glory and allow yourself to forget what’s rational or real.
Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Death of parent, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism