The Fifty Year Sword

As an OG who read HOL years ago and still have not received my t shirt that says “I survived House of Leaves”, I picked up the Fifty Year Sword with zero intention of reading it. I was drawn to the holes in the cover. Flipping through, I saw how short it was and thought: how bad could it be?
Other reviewers have done a great job of listing what is different about this story, so I wont get into it. Personally, I thought the book jacket copy was way cooler than the story itself. A sword that kills ideas! Awesome! Too bad it's not really in the book.
And how did it go from being Moze's Halloween party to whatsherface's birthday party? Nevermind, I don't care.
I can kiss a half an hour of my life away and I like the idea behind this book. Can I recommend it? No. But my hat is off to Danielewski for trying to do something different.
I do see a correlation between one star reviews from people who bought it, and two star reviews from people (like me) who borrowed it.
If you want to give it a try, I highly recommend borrowing it.