Wow, what a book. 
 The introduction on this book starts with describing Zampino's appartment and his writing and how he was found. It continues talking about the Navidson record, which is a movie Zampino talked about in his notes. The footnotes are Johnny Truant's work, adding about his life as he is putting together Zampino's notes on the Navidson record. It seems a little confusing as you first start reading, but makes sense as you go along. The Navidson record is pretty creepy in places too. 
 It is about a guy called Navison and a few other peoples trips inside the never ending hallway within the house. It's kind of creepy, being lost inside a house, all the psychological torment it causes to the people who enter it. The way it is written as you are reading about the house is kind of odd, but in a good way. The words themselves, are not creepy, it's the way it's put onto the page, it makes your heart race. It may look confusing at first, as you flick through the page, but isn't too bad and sometimes, when it is confusing, the confusion adds to the book in a good way. Makes you feel how they feel as they are in the house. I think the pages with sometimes as little as one letter on a page actually were some of the best parts of the novel itself. It was those that helped build up the suspense and it was done with such great skill that it left me needing to stop and catch my breath at the end, my heart was in my mouth at these times in particular. 
 The first point I really started getting into the book was on page 26, they way Mark z. Danielewski writes it is amazing. It really made my skin crawl, my eyes water, my hair to stand on end and my breath to quicken. I felt at that moment that I was there, that it was happening to me. It was a that point I really started to want to read more, and from then on I struggled to put it down and when I wasn't reading, I couldn't stop thinking about it. 
 I can totally appreciate the amount of work it must have taken to write a book like this, but in my opinion, it totally paid off. I did find some parts a little boring and wondered a few time where he was going with it, but it does make sense later on in the book why those parts were included. Without them, I don't think it would have been as good to read. 
 The book caused so many different emotions when I was reading and it actually scared me and caused me to get emotional in places too, not many books instill those emotions within me, but this one did. 
 I am totally glad that I bought this book, it was a long read, but well worth the time and effort as well as the money. It is definitely worth reading this book.