What surprises me most about House of Leaves is how people shy away from it. I may just be looking in the wrong places, but I haven't been able to find any kind of critical analysis of the book itself. No one seems willing to discuss it with me either, despite all that it is. I hear "It's freaky as hell" or "It's amazeing" {sic} and that's it. Pardon the pun.
Another interesting note: when I attempt to analyze the book in any way, shape, or form, I always end up analyzing the house and the Navidson family as opposed to the piece as a whole.
An I out on a limb here? I feel like a book with this much substance and self-analysis has to have some kind of layering going on . . .