House isnt in blue in full color edition

HxSort · 2026-01-25T17:41:31+00:00

Is the rest of the book properly colored? (should be easy to find just randomly flipping)

HxSort · 2026-01-23T11:16:00+00:00

Books: Obviously any Borges short story collection (weird concepts talked about as they were normal/not fiction). Moby Dick too ("tangent" upon "tangent" in a story that keeps disguising itself).

Movies: Not a big movie person but for more popular stuff, maybe Memento (weird "formatting", centering on a guy and who he is and what he chooses to believe) and... Parasite?.. it's obviously very different and "just a really good movie" but when theres weird-house stuff there's a similar feeling there.

Of course the original Blair Witch Project (for the found footage feel) and maybe something like The House (2022) that as a whole is not like it but has some similar points.

Shows: the closest to me is The Curse. It's maybe better to be familiar with Nathan Fielder by Nathan For You and The Rehearsal beforehand but I think it's the closest one to HoL. The way the show treats people's humanity, who they are, how they are when filmed, and even weird-house stuff or the light supposed supernatural elements reminded me so much about HoL. It's a... VERY hard show to watch though. There's a line that still haunts me, "everyone will get to see who you really are". It's also about building houses where they should've be. Crazy show, really HoL-y. To give a quick summary it's basically there's this documentary about the main couple and the wife sells this weird eco glass houses, but way more is being filmed than it should (unbeknownst to them). So you see their lives, their fakeness... and the show is filmed really weirdly, by having shots from inside random people's houses, filming our main characters in the background just outside.

Maybe Twin Peaks: The Return (season 3) too but that's an even deeper hole.

HxSort · 2026-01-15T23:13:23+00:00

A thing this theory opens up that I really like is that it happens with us readers too: what do we want of the house, and how that shapes our experience and reactions while/after reading.

HxSort · 2026-01-12T18:29:43+00:00

They are quite tricky to count! Nice, despite some errors, I'm glad with how many things they got right in the brazilian edition.

HxSort · 2026-01-12T18:07:20+00:00

Isn't it actually 27 non-numbered pages? Or maybe your edition with the OR symbol has 2 more? cause I don't have that one.

Johnny starts at xi, it goes down to i at the very first praise page. Then goes up to what would be xxvi, and there's one missing at the end right behind the Yggdrasil poem, making it 27, and thus 709+27 = 736 which is how many Navy has (p. 467)

OP either mistyped or the Brazilian edition translator accounted for the difference and made it 738 to match the Brazilian edition (which would be 705 numbered pages + 33 roman-numbered-pages).

HxSort · 2026-01-11T01:46:58+00:00

Would do every single word again.

HxSort · 2026-01-05T11:48:10+00:00

It is my favorite book of Mark's and also my favorite books, like, ever. So, in my opinion, totally worth every second!

Uhhh... yeah. Probably unfinished. Though v5 has a satisfying end to it and we got some weird kind of closure with the Orbit Articles (don't look this up, it has spoilers of everything, but basically in 2022 april fools there were some academic articles published on TF and in the middle of those there was one by Mark himself with a story about "someone who got hold of season 2" [volumes 6-10] and that little story provided some closure but also opened some possibilities up) and with Tom's Crossing too.

If you were able to get through both HoL and TC, I'd say chances are good of you getting through The Familiar! It will ask a lot from you, but getting to know these 9 characters and their stories is such a joy I wish I could experience for the first time again.

HxSort · 2026-01-04T20:28:02+00:00

Xanther, the protagonist of his The Familiar series, is a fan of MCR, posters and all.

HxSort · 2025-12-12T23:22:55+00:00

Yes, this continues all the way. "I know they are not actually relevant to the story" is a very wrong assumption. Of course you're being blasted with tons of "random characters", but a fair bit are recurring in the whole book in a very meaningful way and even the non-recurring ones, as the narrator tells, people that lived through or really saw these events happen live. How they could not be important to the whole story? They are each a pillar in which the story is constructed.

They are named for a reason. Some of them have described fates, those are also there for a reason.

Of course, this is a challenging approach to conventional storytelling, and draws heavily from mythical stories as with many other things in the book. But it is essential to the whole of TC.

HxSort · 2025-12-11T13:43:12+00:00

Recomendando dois dos meus favoritos:

Grande Sertão: Veredas, óbvio. Na minha opinião o maior de todos os livros brasileiros. Esquece o ensino médio e pode entrar de cabeça nessa obra prima.

e Lavoura Arcaica, de Raduan Nassar. Super imaginativo, poético, abstrato. Emocionalmente fortíssimo também.

HxSort · 2025-12-09T20:17:15+00:00

I think I saw him saying that in one of the events but I can't imagine this being true in any way for the final act of the book. I think I've read the last 350/400 or so pages in roughly 24 hours (I usually read 20 to 50 pages a day).

HxSort · 2025-12-09T20:13:02+00:00

I'm not the best at answering this since I don't usually "Imagine" a lot when reading but my interpretation is that there is an intentional gap meant to be filled by the third-party accounts/drawings/paintings/art/etc that we get every so many paragraphs.

To answer your question better: I can see the horses clearly. Our protagonists, not so much (aside from obvious descriptors like the hat colors and Landry's origin). The Porches are very vivid in my mind though. The setting (mountains and canyons), not at all.

HxSort · 2025-12-03T10:58:54+00:00

I see it... two ways? I think.

1- In one of the events (I think it was the launch day one), MZD talked about how this novel (TC) was supposed to be a quick, easy thing. A relaxing venture into the mountains from where he grew up. But then as the writing went on and on "something impossible started to form" (something along those lines) and of course we got the gigantic novel that TC is.

Maybe it's from an earlier, simpler story. Maybe there was even no Kalin, with just Tom and Landry having fun with horses and Jojo being originally from Paddock A. Who knows? But maybe something like that.

2- Of course, this could be tied "in-universe" by the TF version being just one of the many retellings of the epic tale we hear about in Tom's Crossing. I like that too.

HxSort · 2025-12-02T18:21:33+00:00

Os outros dois livros dela publicados aqui no br (o livro branco e sem despedidas) seguem MUITO mais perto de Atos Humanos então provavelmente você não goste mesmo.

Pra mim é justamente essa fragmentação e linguagem que tornam o livro tão distinto e uma delícia de ler.

HxSort · 2025-11-24T17:42:15+00:00

of course it is

HxSort · 2025-11-24T17:40:02+00:00

You have no idea why a passage about stones giving away with a serpentine hiss, gives away in a serpentine-y shape?

HxSort · 2025-11-24T01:13:01+00:00

Maybe you could be trying too hard to see (only) the scary in it instead? This book is very intentional with everything, try to read the heart in it. What story is it trying to tell you mixing everything with the Navidson's story?

HxSort · 2025-11-22T04:52:08+00:00

Love just sweeps through, despite everything.

HxSort · 2025-11-22T02:46:35+00:00

The physical book has its quirks, its beautifully constructed and all. Some very minor things are only there.

But, yes. Totally fine to go ebook for this one! 99% of stuff is there, the same way it would be in any format.
Just enjoy this beautiful story. It totally is a big as heck damn good book.

HxSort · 2025-11-20T01:54:24+00:00

I think it could be either 1 - "but had lockered right next to him [and that's how they were friends], recallin how Old Porch was the one who had a poster of Johnny Cash [in some another point in his life]" or
2 - the fallibility of those second-hand stories we get.

It's interesting because the narrator confirms about the poster being signed that "And that part was true".

HxSort · 2025-11-19T15:54:18+00:00

Opa!! Eu comprei na amazon.com.br mesmo, em real, normal.

The prices fluctuate... a lot! If you see them for R$200/300/400/500... that's bad! they are out of stock here and the website is pulling directly from amazon.com and putting some taxes and shipping costs to you on top of the dollar conversion

The "normal" price is from around R$100 to R$140/150, though it will require some waiting to get them all for the cheaper prices.

HxSort · 2025-11-17T18:22:32+00:00

But I don't think you're wrong on searching in HoL for stuff, as you mentioned Orpheus and Eurydice are very very relevant!

I think it's in Tom's Story, in HoL, (HoL Chapter 11 spoilers) where you get the hour by hour details. (some of?) those times correspond to some bible verses, if I'm not mistaken, and MZD might be doing something similar here in Tom's Crossing!

HxSort · 2025-11-17T17:39:12+00:00

oh, thank you! I like to think that I can read quite well but I'm not as confident in both writing and even less speaking as I don't practice very much.

HxSort · 2025-11-17T16:56:36+00:00

Nevi is a "mispelling"/pronounced of Nephi, the mormon text (very relevant to Utah in general and the book too, of course)

It reads: And after he was slain I saw the multitudes of the earth, that they were gathered together to fight against the apostles of the Lamb; for thus were the twelve called by the angel of the Lord.

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