For those of you unfamiliar with the text, here's the specifics.
It's a book by Mark Z. Danielewski, 709 pages long, and is a love story steeped in a horror story that becomes a satire of the way humans try to rationalize the world through statistics and research.

The premise is that a a tattoo parlor employee named Johnny Truant comes to own the apartment of a recently deceased blind and elderly man by the name of Zampano.Sifting through Zampano's belongings (Which came with the apartment as the old man had no will to divide his inheritance), Johnnny stumbles upon an extensive manuscript of Zampano's which is an academic study on a documentary called The Navidson Record, which had been released in 1997.

This documentary covers the lives of the four members of the Navidson Family; Will Navidson, photo journalist, Karen Navidson, his former fashion model, and their two children Chad and Daisy, all of whom have just moved into a new home in Virginia. The documentary begins simply enough, but slowly descends into chilling terror as their return from an out of state vacation reveals the appearance of a new room in their home. Will's investigation into this change reveals that the house slowly appears to be expanding from within, while it maintains its exterior dimensions.

I won't go on about the plot, but I will say that it is downright terrifying at points. The feelings evoked by the book are further heightened through the format in which the book is written. It is chaotic and downright insane at times, with footnotes within footnotes addressing books that are not in the national library's records, and the book's text defying the boundaries and lines of pages and taking on labyrinthine elements as it slowly spirals out of control.

I strongly recommend that anyone interested in the architecture of writing, and innovative steps taken to further the form of written narrative, consider finding a copy of this book and committing some significant time to it. You won't be disappointed, but at times you may feel completely overwhelmed.

IF any of you have read this book, please share your thoughts on it (SPOILER FREE, of course :] ) and your feelings on Danielewski's writing style, what he does right and what you feel could have been done differently.