Kevin's Watch

So I read this book around 3 Am (not a good idea) but its about this man who discovers an x-dimension in his house. Which is a space larger on the inside than on the outside. Eventually the place is so large that he enters on an expedition to record it. But everything goes terribly wrong.

It's very freaky on an animal and base level, and I highly recomend it.

Even though I botched the explanation, try it out anyways.

I am now intrigued and will read it as soon as possible.

Thanks, Balon.

No probs.

AHH! Forgot to mention.

The book is written in to styles mixed in.

One is the main character the dude exploring his house. But the other is a guy reading House of Leaves and going insane.

MAN SORRY!

Thats what makes it so freaky, because you're wondering (at least in 3am I was) if you're going insane too?

Yeah, I just read the Amazon page for it. It sounds at once both creepy and confusing. I'll get it this week, hopefully.

Do! Its really good. But try it at the scariest time you can, while still staying functional. It makes all the differnce

I may have to check it out as well.

Edit - Balon, is it by Mark Z. Danielewski?

This should help

search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/is ... 3768&itm=1


What amazon link?

Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia....

Please return to your telescreen.....

That's the page I found, but it wasn't instantly obvious what the hell the book was about. I find Amazon very user-unfriendly.

Thanks man.

Thought Police!

Don't make me come over there Michael.

variol son wrote:Don't make me come over there Michael.

Do you have your License?

Why yes. Yes I do.

Great book. Enjoyed the way the structure of each chapter corresponds to the subject--two columns in the chapter about twins, complicated back and forth footnotes in the chapter about Labyrinth, etc. Brilliantly done. Lots of hidden messages as well.
An academic paper by a blind man about a documentary film that doesn't exist, which may be a fabrication by a brilliant fraud, who might be just the deluded fantasy of a woman in an insane asylum.

I found a copy of this at the local Borders (hmmm, Borders), but it's $70.00 (approx. $45.00 US or £23.00) or the price of three normal novels. Gods damnit!

Heh. A copy is usually £20 over here. Same for Only Revolutions, which was a fairly regular sized hardback, but still a few pounds more expensive that usual. I think the extra cost is to cover printing costs for having the pages set in such unusual ways.

shall i weigh in?

book began on the net i understand. thus the formatting.
oh so postmodern.

i liked the story all the way up to the expedition...

when he got lost, so did i.

the guy in the house wigged me out, the one going loony.

sheesh.

i was really creeped out for a while on the first part of that book.

I found it when I was in B&N the other day. Wow, like 700 pages of really small words! It'll have to wait for a bit.

But at least it's only about $20 here.

I can't tell you how many times I've picked up this book and considered buying it, only to put it down because I thought the chapter structure was simply a cheap selling ploy. Don't get me wrong, I love experimental fiction and nonconventional writing styles, but writing in circles? Along the borders? I had to wonder if the story was as intriguing as the layout. I know it's probably stylistically groundbreaking and unique, but it was just enough to keep me from purchasing it.

But since I've read some great praise for it from Murrin and others on the Watch, I'm confident that it's worth reading.

Im a cheap bastard, I ussually just get them from the library, and If i find something I really like, I'll break down and buy it used.

I think I've only bought whole price from Borders or BandN mabye a dozen times ever.

WOO! CHEAPNESS!

Huh. Books are hell of an expensive here. 100% import duty, which really sucks. It's very rare that I buy new books. Just can't afford it. The vast majority of my many books were bought second hand.

--A