House of Leaves

My all-time favorite novel, House of Leaves almost never leaves my head. If you hang around me long enough, I'll eventually pull out my copy and talk at length about the text.

I take away something different each time I reread it. On my first read, I wondered about the nature of the monster stalking Johnny; after the second, I questioned its existence as something separate from his own mind. With my latest read, I am confident that the “monster” is nothing more than Johnny's (and Navidson's) self-destructive habits.