Worked in a few bookstores & I would get different recommendations from all sorts of people, house of leaves was only brought up by the dumbest people I knew
@Logo_Daedalus She doesn't see (or care to acknowledge) that we're still stuck in an era that sidesteps the work itself to focus on the individual behind it. Been happening for decades, but social MEdia has (as with everything) accelerated it & distilled it to a base crude stupidity