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I also re-read House of Leaves<\/a>. This time I read only<\/i> the bits directly concerned with the Navidson house on Ash Tree Lane and skipped the rest of it. Much better. Taken as a standalone it’s actually more<\/i> thought-provoking and satisfying. I should observe, for those of you out there who thought nothing like this had been done before, that Alfred Bester had already used unconventional formatting to represent and reinforce narrative structure (as opposed to unconventional formatting put in to annoy the pants off the reader).<\/p>\n

Returning to Once<\/i>, briefly. Mr Herbert (or, indeed, Stewie and Quagmire). If you are going to incorporate current celebrities into your novels, it should serve some purpose. Presumably your intended purpose was an attempt to give the reader some cultural reference point and make him feel more connected to the story’s environment, as if your use of real places were not enough.<\/p>\n

Sadly, how it actually read was: “OMFG I think Bj\u00c3\u00b6rk is so cool and crazy she must be like a fairy or something LOLOLOLOLOLZ!!!”<\/p>\n

Not good. Not good at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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