Chet Reads & Writes

Category: Literature

What Happened to Her?

I’ve recently finished Tim O’Brien’s In The Lake of the Woods, one of his few that I had not read before. If you’re at all familiar with O’Brien you know that his novels always relate back to his experiences in Vietnam as an infantryman in the 1960s. His writing isn’t for everyone, but I love [...]

Finality from within the House – Navidson

This post may contain information that people who haven’t finished the book don’t want to know. Last time I set out to write about House of Leaves I had intended to finish off everything I had to say. Then I had banged out almost 500 words about Johnny Truant and decided that if I expected [...]

Finality from within the House – Johnny Truant

This post may contain information that people who haven’t finished the book don’t want to know. This is part one of the end of my House of Leaves series. I did some reading and some thinking. A lot of people have spent a long time discussing the many, many nuances from this book. I will [...]