[leaves] I like how the first thing fraying at people's sanity is a small, simple, unresolvable anomaly

no matter how many times they measure the width of the house, no matter how many tools and possible explanations they go through

it's five sixteenths of an inch wider on the inside than the outside

those are some very thin walls...

after accounting for wall thickness

the thickness of the walls, plus the measurement of the space inside it, exceeds the external width by 5/16"

I really like the idea of the layered narrative and the meta elements in HoL, but in terms of pure readability, I think I would like it a lot better if it was just contained to the Navidson story

just a simple horror novel about a door that shouldn't exist, but does

i mean you can read it that way by just skipping johnny's footnotes, but also i love johnny so i would never

but yeah the escalation of the House's impossible space is really good, it starts off so small

and then "measuring it correctly" becomes a huge undertaking of a task

karen's bookshelf is my favorite element of that portion of the plot, though i will not say more about that in case you haven't gotten there yet

I have not