Only Revolutions - a novel - by Mark Z. Danielewski

[grady]

A copy of this showed up earlier this week in the post.

I'm in the midst of the new Murakami collection of short stories and essays by William Gass, but I think I might divert some more attention to this novel.

If you go to the two links below you'll find image grabs of the page layouts for the book that give you a sense of what reading it is like.

Hailey

Sam

Not terribly startling to most if you've seen some graphic/design books, but I imagine it will throw some for a loop. Flipping throughout the book I've been reminded more than a few times of Mr. Hyde and Mr. Warwicker's recent tomato project, In the Belly of St. Paul. This comes from the use of type and layout on the page of words and space.

Alas, I've never completed House of [COLOR=Blue]Leaves[/COLOR][COLOR=Blue] [COLOR=Black]but have started it and stopped it many times. After finishing Only Revolutions I'm gonna revisit House and see if I can make it through the maze.

Another note of contention/annoyance for some will be the alternating story. Hailey's story is one side of the book. You flip it over and read Sam's story. They alternate and meet in the middle, sort of.

Should be an interesting read or just annoying gimic.
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