Comments on: and we shall build a House of Leaves. . . http://www.justindb.com/life/2009/11/and-we-shall-build-a-house-of-leaves/ adventures of justin Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:26:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: julien http://www.justindb.com/life/2009/11/and-we-shall-build-a-house-of-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-136 julien Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:24:41 +0000 http://www.justindb.com/life/?p=307#comment-136 i had really mixed feelings about this book. as you mentioned there are several layers of the book, relating to the two major and completely different stories. the story relating to johnny truant - the whalestoe letters, the e.d.'s, etc. - i kinda hated. i didn't find the story, that this guy was going crazy and doing drugs and having soooo much sex all the time, interesting, original, or even well-written. on the other hand, everything relating to the navidson story - from zampano to the 'in film' interviews, the the navidson-produced shorts - made up one of the best stories i've ever read. besides the fact i've never read a story told through film criticism, the story itself was really compelling. so my mixed feelings about are not because it is as a whole mediocre, but half of it is incredible and half of it sucks. julien i had really mixed feelings about this book. as you mentioned there are several layers of the book, relating to the two major and completely different stories. the story relating to johnny truant – the whalestoe letters, the e.d.’s, etc. – i kinda hated. i didn’t find the story, that this guy was going crazy and doing drugs and having soooo much sex all the time, interesting, original, or even well-written.

on the other hand, everything relating to the navidson story – from zampano to the ‘in film’ interviews, the the navidson-produced shorts – made up one of the best stories i’ve ever read. besides the fact i’ve never read a story told through film criticism, the story itself was really compelling.

so my mixed feelings about are not because it is as a whole mediocre, but half of it is incredible and half of it sucks.

julien

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