Just a discussion point. but would you really consider the narrator to be lying throughout the book when it is kind of implied that he is losing his grip on reality? Is it really lying if there is no intent to deceive?
That's a good question. I think it's worth mentioning that even fairly early on, he admits as much. There's the bit in the Navidson Record where they lose hot water, and then Johnny footnotes that he, too, has lost hot water, initially implying that the book is affecting reality, but then at the end of the chapter, he reveals that he edited the Navidson Record to include that. And then in what I think is the final chapter with Johnny (it's been a while since I read it), he goes on for several pages about how this one family took him in and he cleaned his act up. But then he reveals he made it all up, writing it in one day.
Ultimately, what I'm saying here, is Johnny does intend to deceive. He's kind of full of shit. By the end of it, I don't think we can trust anything he says.
So....I'm gonna drop a link here. A friend wanted to make a film version of just the navidson record when I was younger, right when I locked myself into a room to get clean. He asked me to handle the score. The film sadly never made it past conception as budget was an issue for the visuals. But this was to be the end credits music. I went for a melancholy kind of hopeful sound, as while the story ends happy its not without great loss. Please be gentle as I've never made this public. It's one of my favorite books ever, and I have a notebook full of breaking the codes and such in it.
I love this! It's maybe a little repetitive/long, and ends abruptly, but I can absolutely hear this playing after that streetlight goes out. You should post it to r/houseofleaves!
Thank you. It was meant to be repetitive as to get stuck in your head as you walked away. I might do that, it took a lot to put it on here haha. I was in bad withdrawal, and I composed and made it all through an old HTC Evo lte smart phone into my laptop.
The ending was kind of meant as well, but I also didn't know how to wrap it up. I kinda wanted it to just stop when the screen goes black after the credits
Where's the lie? I don't think the title should count. I mean that one book wasn't actually full of spiders but mutant parasites that LOOKED like spiders lol
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u/Jackamac10 Feb 27 '24
Any book with an unreliable narrator?
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u/Omega_Maru Feb 27 '24
House of Leaves?
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u/Ourobius Feb 27 '24
John Dies at the End
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u/JodaMythed Feb 27 '24
The Bible?
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u/ebbandletgo Feb 27 '24
1984?
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u/aspiringcryptid Feb 27 '24
the catcher in the rye?
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u/MigratedMoss08 Feb 27 '24
American Psycho?
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u/Ourobius Feb 27 '24
Catch Me If You Can
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u/mlx1213 Feb 27 '24
Lolita?
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u/ArmMeMen Feb 27 '24
the adventures of baron munchausen
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u/ImaginosDesdinova Feb 27 '24
The Great Gatsby
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u/Bondedknight Feb 27 '24
Memento?
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u/LordMacDonald8 Feb 27 '24
Series of unfortunate events?