I'd recommend Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney for people who are fans of HoL and want something that's just a tad more "challenging".

I'd recommend Dhalgren by Samuel Delaney for people who are fans of HoL and want something that's just a tad more "challenging".

How many people caught that Poe appears as a character in House of Leaves?

How many people caught that Poe appears as a character in House of Leaves?

A film version of HoL could work but it'd have to be fucked up and weird the same way the book was, and use the conventions of film the same way the book played ridiculous games with typography and footnotes and such — it would have to look like a film that someone cut together out of bits and pieces of bootlegged…

A film version of HoL could work but it'd have to be fucked up and weird the same way the book was, and use the conventions of film the same way the book played ridiculous games with typography and footnotes and such — it would have to look like a film that someone cut together out of bits and pieces of bootlegged…

No, Borges is the Kraft Easy Mac version of Borges.

No, Borges is the Kraft Easy Mac version of Borges.

That'd make the inbreeding problem worse, not better.

That'd make the inbreeding problem worse, not better.

Oh, that's not a big deal to me. The men having their sexual desires suppressed doesn't mean their bodies stop making sperm that can be extracted one way or another.

Oh, that's not a big deal to me. The men having their sexual desires suppressed doesn't mean their bodies stop making sperm that can be extracted one way or another.

I just looked it up, and it outright states that there's always fifty in every year's group unless some of them have been "released" (euthanized for bad behavior) or "lost" (died by accident).

I just looked it up, and it outright states that there's always fifty in every year's group unless some of them have been "released" (euthanized for bad behavior) or "lost" (died by accident).

The "voluntary extinction" theory is an appealing one from a literary standpoint, but from my obnoxious nitpicking geek standpoint it's really just as unlikely as any of the other theories — it would mean that each generation is quite a bit smaller than the one before it, which would mean that the community should…

The "voluntary extinction" theory is an appealing one from a literary standpoint, but from my obnoxious nitpicking geek standpoint it's really just as unlikely as any of the other theories — it would mean that each generation is quite a bit smaller than the one before it, which would mean that the community should…

Except they never mention immigration, and a society that survives largely on immigration rather than natural increase would seem to run counter to the ideal of absolute and total social control that the community is all about.

Except they never mention immigration, and a society that survives largely on immigration rather than natural increase would seem to run counter to the ideal of absolute and total social control that the community is all about.

Yes, but like I said, the math means that even the number of Birthmothers varies year by year, *on average* it must work out to be 1/3 of the entire population being Birthmothers or they can't have enough babies to keep their society alive.

Yes, but like I said, the math means that even the number of Birthmothers varies year by year, *on average* it must work out to be 1/3 of the entire population being Birthmothers or they can't have enough babies to keep their society alive.