here you go. sorry it's late.

O.M.G. this section was the best part yet! I'll be back later to write some about it. I've read the escape three times. WOWWW.

There was so much in this next section I'm not sure where to start.

I loved Tom's story. How he yelled "Fuck You Mr. Monster." It's classic he called the monster Mr. like out of respect or something. I enjoyed his joking. I think if I were in his situation I'd be more like him than Holloway. "Come and eat my nasty rotting flesh mutha fucka!"

Emptiness is another word for darkness... hmmm

The quater fell 27,273 miles exceeding the earth's circumference by 2,371 miles WTF??

I like the forward to page 332 from last week. I made a note and then when I saw it here's what I discovered.

Quote: "Some habits don't die".
Forward: Holloway suicidal disposition

Brilliant.

Tom v Holloway. Like I said, I'd much prefer to think like Tom. Holloway letting fear eat him alive was so cowardly to me.

Did anyone else pick up on the fact that Zampano is inside Johnny? I re-read that part and was confused. I'm not sure what it meant.

The Escape (or Excavation depending on how you look at it). Amazing. I started making little notes:

a knock on the door
GTFO!!!
run run run
oh shit the bedroom is callapsing
the floor is sinking
knocking turns into pounding
is it Holloway?
holy fuck Daisy, Chad and Tom are missing!!
*hide my face and read through one eye*
silence was more powerful than any sound
dropping
slope
sunk
blackness
jump
jump
jump

The conveyor belt... fucking genius!
Holloway's actions altered the house... what? it thrives on souls? huh? I'm so lost. re-read. "it's impossible to deny that its nature seems to have changed (after Holloway's suicide). hmmm

So I really liked how Tom was drunk and made the comments about the floor being his friend because you can always count on it. Oh and you can lay there without holding on... but not true. The floor was not his best friend and you can't always count on it. poetry.

I also liked the way Navy described the house like a giant mouth opening up and swallowing them. chewing on Tom's hands, his arms. and he called it a fucker which humanized it even more.

This is the first time I considered that the house is not just a void or maze but alive and thinking (breathing and feeding if you will).

I read the escape three times. each time I discovered more. I really liked this part.

Then Karen's short story, eh, boring in comparison. I was SHOCKED that she and Navy weren't married. I had to re-read that part several times to make sure I understood.

I didn't know what to think about her stepfather and the well. makes sense but eeeew, do all fictional women have to be fucked up by rape and molestation?

I didn't care for the house is a vagina comparison.

This section ends with Karen saying she's going to reconcile with Navy. We already know Navy's in Virginia. I expect another trip into the house. I have a feeling this whole story has only just begun to unfold.

hmm i really don't feel like finding my book in this mess of boxes so i'll keep this short. oh and i don't remember the house=vagina thing. care to refresh my memory.

i love tom, although i guess that's kind of conceited because he reminded me a lot of myself because no one else even needs to laugh but i can always crack myself up and i always do it when i'm really angry or scared. i loved his story. actually i took the whole the whole mr. monster thing was defiant disrespect. like making this big monster into a man and an equal. i was so sad when he died but it fit his character..loyal til the end and it had to be daisy instead of him that lived.

the house completely destroying itself like that..i think it was in some movie. can't remember which. it was a cool scene but it kind of disappointed me that the kids were an afterthought. wtf? and the creepy disturbing drawings. i laughed so hard at the teacher who came to the door.

can't remember what else i had to say about this section. i'll clear the boxes off my book soon.

I loved this part too.

Especially the little [] for the missing words/ letters/ sentences. I almost started filling them in, but decided not to because people want to borrow it from me so, I'll make them figure it out.

Aw, I feel so bad for Tom, but something like that makes me wonder where everything goes when the house gets rid of it? And then, like, if Navy's staying, then he'll go back to the house, will it be destroyed, or like nothing ever happened? Humm...

Ah, this is also the part with the wonderful typing. I had to turn my book this way and that, anyone watching from far away would like, think I'm crazy. But I liked it.

I'm also glad we finally find out who Delial is- kind of. Wonder how that'll play out with everything.

Karen's part wasn't as interesting, I do agree. But it was kind of cool to see some familiar names in the interviews, like Stephen King, and Stanley Kubrick (I can't place what I know was his film, I just know it's familiar. Wait, A Clockwork Orange?).

House = vagina, I can't find it. I remember it too, but can't find it to reread it.

I'll add more later.

Lynn - OMG filling in the [] is such a great idea!!! I was thinking of just filling them in like you do when you take a test, you know, fill in the circle thing. ha ha

go to week 4 thread for vagina theory.

i feel so stupid...there were a few [] i couldn't figure out.

so i dug my book out from under almost every pair of jeans i own (apparently when you ask a man to throw something in the dryer he'll bring up the whole damn laundry room and expect you to fold it properly even though you couldn't care less about the crease).

lol i'm looking at my paper with my notes and they sort of make sense but i should have written down what part they belong to.

hmm i think everything i wanted to say in this part was covered. i liked all the different 'expert' points of view.
"your monster, however, is purely american. edgeless for one thing, something a compendium of diverse cultures definitely requires. you can't identify this creature with any one group. it's individuality is imperceptible, and like the dark side of the moon, invisible but not without influence."
i love the efforts to explain it away. that's something i never solved...monster or no monster?

lynn: oh, i never thought about where they went. i just kind of assume it meant they died if the house eats them like that. but i guess that's part of the whole darkness thing. yep, stanley kubrick was ACO.

hmmm i say no monsters. just imagination.

Denise: Yeah, I thought it might make it a bit easier to read in the future. Oh, I'll go over to week 4.

Stephanie: I know, it's usually a [] for one space, and a space between for every letter in between, but some were too long I couldn't get it. Oh, I wonder...And maybe no monster? I guess.