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Title: House of Leaves is an ultra-promising debut
Review: In all the crazy fuss surrounding this novel--much of which it deserves--something has been lost: a sense of history. This book fits comfortably into a past defined by the work of Pynchon, Alasdair Gray, Nabokov, and others. Very few of the devices used by the author are unique, although he does use them well, for the most part. His use of footnotes, however, is often out of control, to the point that he begins to annihilate his own central narrative--a narrative that, despite the horror aspects, is really a love story. This is the strength of the novel: the central relationship between the photographer and his wife.I'm a writer and, to be honest, I could not tell whether my irritations with the narrative were because I wished I had actually written the book or because the book does have some flaws. Regardless, this is great stuff and I can't wait to read his next novel.
