Thoughts on House of Leaves?

So I would bet some of the board veterans have seen a thread much like this more than once before, though to be honest I could not find one, so I figured I would ask for a new set of opinions toward the book titled "house of leaves."

I have heard rave reviews; We're talking, over the top declarations of genius put toward this book, and at the same time, criticism that it is nothing more than an interesting plot executed poorly and set into a very challenging book format that in the end serves no real purpose, except to be odd.

Anywho I have the book before me and while I've just begun to embark upon it, I wonder if I will gain anything from this read or not. So far, personally it does not seem like the insightful and ambitious tome I have heard it to be.

Anyway I would love for some opinions from people who read many things, old and new, experimental and commonplace- about whether they consider this worthy of any cult following in their eyes.

Thank you all

any opinions on house of leaves?

You really want to prejudice your opinion before you've read it? Maybe you're right. I could have done with someone to warn me off it myself really.

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I have heard rave reviews; We're talking, over the top declarations of genius put toward this book, and at the same time, criticism that it is nothing more than an interesting plot executed poorly and set into a very challenging book format that in the end serves no real purpose, except to be odd.

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I take the latter view, personally. Really can't see that it adds up to much at all. I'm not a reader who necessarily prefers conventional plots and have read lots of books that don't fit the standard linear narrative mold: Naked Lunch, Ulysses, Blood and Guts in Highschool, Malone Dies, The Unnameable, To the Lighthouse etc. etc. But this book is attention-getting in a way those books aren't and weird without purpose. The author's only real achievements are to have set up an intriguing premise and devised a slightly unusual way to lay out his text. He finds nothing of interest to do with these things at all that I can see. In fact, it really looks to me as if he may have concentrated on sensational novelty at the expense of substance.