So reading through House of Leaves, the word house is left in blue through the text and even in the title, but for what reason? What is so significant about the word House? Yea theres a house in the story, and it's weird expanding anterior leaves the reader in suspense because of this, but why blue? Why not red or green. In my opinion the title should be House of trees, and trees should be green, representing the vital waste of paper for each printed copy.
Reading, and skipping around you can find separate definitions to this word house. Danielewski even states in the beginning of the novel that you may jump around at your pleasure. I don't see what he's doing here, I feel that was a bad move. This isn't the bible we're talking about. However, reading the book in chronological order by page doesn't really help in this case either.
I'm starting to believe the word house holds more power as I move forward. The characters refer to the house as less primitive as time goes on, and they sense a change taking place. I'm honestly not sure what the word means yet, however I want to say that it will eventually come out towards the end of the story.
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