House of Leaves is easily the best book I have ever read. The book does an amazing job of making characters feel like they are real people in an unnatural environment. Every character has depth and their personalities are explored and broken down when interacting with the house, showing their strengths and flaws. You get to explore the house with these characters, watching as their entire being is almost pulled apart and strewn for you to see as the house itself breaks them down until you can see who they truly are. Each character has a journey, whether it ends well or not, in this book.

House of Leaves has a very unique writing style, with almost half of the story being in annotations in the bottom parts of pages. An iconic part of the book is the fact that the word “house” is colored blue in every single instance it is used, even when it is in different languages. There are many instances of unique writing in this book, including but not limited to words being written upside down, in weird shapes, or struck out.

The book also contains many different images, letters (with one hiding a secret code if you would believe it), and many different poems. It has a writing style, unlike any other book I have read.

A quote the sticks out for me is when Navidson says, “Personally, I just want to create a cozy little outpost for me and my family.” Navidson is finally settling down with his family in a nice home on their own, and yet instead of describing it as his “home” he describes it as an outpost. This statement here at the beginning of the Navidson Record perfectly describes Navidons personality, he loves his family and wants to stay with them but he cannot escape his yearning for the unknown, unconsciously seeing his home as a temporary outpost instead of a home to live in for the rest of his life. This is but one example of many different moments of great character development in this book.

This book is very popular, inspiring many, many different creations like Myhouse.wad

This Doom mod has an absolutely insane amount of effort put into it, with it being regarded as one of the greatest Doom mods ever created, and I doubt another mod of its quality will be created in the near future. This mod takes heavy inspiration from House of Leaves, even replicating the coloring of the word house to blue in the description and extra material in the mod. The impact of this story is not to be ignored and its influence in many different forms of media is something that cannot be ignored.

House of Leaves is one of the best books ever written and should be read by more people, its quality and the effort put into writing this book is shown throughout the entire book and it is a truly amazing read.