Skip It

Johnny Truant writes, "The way I figure it, if there's something you find irksome--go ahead and skip it."

What is Mr. Truant implying about the book: If you only read the parts that you want and skip the parts that you don't care about, how will you get the whole story? Is he asking us to be lazy? Or does he know us better than we do and realize this is just what we were going to do anyway?

On your own blog under the title SKIP IT, write down the parts that you skipped when reading--and be honest. Did you read the first page and then just stop? did you read through the "main story" (whichever you think that is) and then just skip the rest? Did you switch back and forth.

write three-four paragraphs where you write down your experience reading this book. But do not write "I" or any first person. Have distance. Write about your self in the third person. Example: "After the second chapter, John Lennon could not read anymore of Johnny Truant's footnotes. They were so obviously sexist and boring and completely ridiculous. Mr. Lennon wanted to know about the hallways............"

Several sections were skipped. To really define which parts one cannot do at this moment because it was due to not knowing how or when to read it. Just note most of it was kind of absorbed while the rest is still under observation.

Reading this book made Rob a confuzzled panda of sorts. Scrolling through it, trying harder & harder to understand it, but was left too devastated to handle. Reading this conglomerate of confusion made this tattooed individual think of several old television shows & movies. More specifically was the Treehouse of Horror episode of the Simpsons when the family moves into the house & it begins to bleed, change rooms, & inevitably self destruct. Another movie was Thirteen Ghosts. The house begins to morph & twist into different shapes until it, too, self destructs.

When Truant mentions about skipping things that are irksome. Reading it made this junior believe that it wasn't a negative thing to 'skip over' it to forget. It was to skip over right now to reread it again later. It is not like said skipped item is not as important as the rest, but actually something to delve further into by means of reading between the lines or looking closer at to better understand. To skip means you either forget completely about it or go onto an easier section & then return.

House of Leaves was a lot like the first time reading a manga. Typically one reads a graphic novel from left to right. With japanese comics, you have to read it from right to left, not knowing if a panel collides, where to follow from. This was exactly the same feeling. You'd read it then magically a giant blue box is on the page & it's like, "Hrm... So where do we begin?" That same feeling still is felt while reading House of Leaves. Mangas, however, are a much simpler read. Maybe next novel should be one of those. ;-)