A supposedly great thing that I'll never watch again- Great media that left you cold

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I don't know if anyone even remembers it now, but House of Leaves. It was billed as the most terrifying and disturbing thing you could possibly read....and to me, it was 5% effective psychological horror and 5% mild creepiness vs hundreds of pages of the writer tediously waffling on about how clever and postmodern he was and using "clever" word layouts that meant a lot of the pages were half empty space.

Absolutely. House of Leaves is much more of a status signifier than a book. I wish I had spent that time reading more Borges, who is a better writer and has much more interesting ideas.