House Of Leaves

Spoilers abound. I don't even care.

Mostly I liked it, but of course it demands some thought. The sex bits I thought were unnecessary, but I guess that's how you write "modern"... actually, I see MZD shouting for Stephen King's* attention, and King's guilty of the same thing. Pointless, horribly missplaced sex scenes.

What I still don't get is the fictional/not-fictional aspects of the book. I definitely need to reread it to better understand, but I don't have time for that. Anyway, some questions to help clear my mind:

1) Redwood? Mentioned twice.
2) The house is fictional in Zampano's universe. Is it real in Johnny's? (he never finds the house.) Actually, I don't even get the "universe" bits, except that some things exist in some places and not in others. Somewhere online someone mentioned that there was "proof" of Zampano's interviews that are revealed  by Johnny to have never happened.
2.5) if it's fake in Zampano's, then why did he succumb to madness/die the way he did/have claw marks on his floor? The whole thing screams "MINOTAUR!". But Zampano himself wrote that the house wasn't real. And then he said to avoid it. Um...
3) Johnny's mother addressed Zampano in a letter to Johnny.**
4) The house of leaves was a book that Navidson burned while falling through the house of leaves, saving him from death (or maybe that's what allowed Karen to go in and save him)...
5) The final bits of Exploration 5 mention that, after the rescue, Karen and Navidson were sitting simply outside. Like, transported there. One second in the total dark, next: outside. The house was gone. But a neighbour called an ambulance, whose driver saw the house (albeit with an angry door).
6) The house has mood swings (suddenly violent because of Holloway's suicide?) and weird affection for Navidson (the house calms when he enters it... but it still tries to lead him in further [exploration 5 mentions the floor slopes downward] and kill him).
7) The house is the book, pretty much. Yes, in canon. Zampano's manuscript was supposed to be called "House of Leaves", Johnny goes nuts editing it, and Navidson burns it and is consequently saved. PS, wtf did Johnny even do with it? He mentions being evicted, and later meeting a band who had read the book - but nowhere did Johnny mention parting with the book/notes or any publisher/editor/whatever.
8) The house has reach. Anyone remotely connected is affected, and Johnny is outright attacked in the supply room at work. He hallucinates the dark monster, but has scratches on his neck. Of course, who knows if we can believe anything he says. We can assume the Minotaur/house "moved" and also killed Zampano.

Okay, you know what? MZD's clearly just fucking with us. None of this is SUPPOSED to make sense, and that makes me angry. So many loose ends. So many "it depends on your interpretations!" bullshit. It's interesting, yes, but full of dead ends.

*Found one Stephen King easter egg: "teeth rose .... madder". I'm sure there's more.

** This is where MZD clearly stopped trying to make things make sense, and just wanted to fuck with us. I honestly believe there's no point or meaning to this, just that MZD wanted to freak the reader out and think there was something.

You know what? I've found enough loose ends to feel content saying, this shit's not supposed to make sense so I'm not gonna waste my time.

PS oh also sorry I died. Things happened.