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Book Review of House of Leaves

House of Leaves
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Definitely one of the creepiest, get-under-your-skin books I've ever read (and I've gone through all the classic King/Koontz novels.) A reporter writes a manuscript about an odd story he investigated: a family moves in to a house, but the inside measurements don't quite match the outside ones...perhaps something to do with the extra rooms that keep popping up out of nowhere? the strange (growling) noises the house makes? This story is "enveloped" into another involving the editor of this manuscript and his misadventures...told mainly in footnotes. Very interesting reading, if you are open to alternate forms of storytelling. I loved it!