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aangee (Australia) (2008/08/04):
The review of this book is better than the book itself. Utterly horrible, it makes no sense, you begin to really, and I mean REALLY, despise the characters throughout and less than halfway through you stop caring altogether. The ten trees it took to make this book (1.25 kilos is what it weighs, really!) would have been better off planted. Worst.Book.Ever.
Jordan (USA: CA) (2008/11/16):
This book is ridiculously written, it's a bore to read.
Kate (USA: MN) (2009/03/02):
I loved this book. It was a complete mind trip. I recommend it to all of my friends. Unfortunately, I love it too much to let someone mooch it from me, but if you find one on this site, TAKE IT!
Frostek (United Kingdom) (2009/05/03):
A fascinating book. The different levels of stories are expressed perfectly in the mutated and spatially altered texts of the book.I had this sitting around on my shelves for a few years before I finally reached it. I wish I had read it the day I first bought it. Really, really good.
Natalie (USA: NJ) (2009/10/21):
An absolutely fascinating book, written from a truly post-modern perspective. Honestly, I also love it so much that I will never let it go. One word of advice: Don't read it at night, or totally alone. There are moments when I felt as if the various characters were speaking directly to me. Very strange feeling...
Tammy (USA: CA) (2009/10/30):
Have to say, this is one of the creepiest books ever written. However, there are flaws. About 1/3 of the way through, I stopped paying attention to the 2nd narrative altogether, (Johnny Truant's part). I found him juvenile and boring, altogether an unwanted distraction. Everytime he popped up, (courier font) I automatically skipped over it and focused wholly on what was going on inside the Navidson house (Times New Roman). That part was brilliant. Is it a successful venture, seeing as I had to skip about half the book in order to truly get into it? Maybe, maybe not. I will say though, the parts I did read stayed with me a really long time. Pick it up if you see it here. I'm not giving mine away.
Amy (USA: TX) (2009/11/07):
Anyone who hates this book, or thinks it's boring, or too hard to read has absolutely no sense of imagination and is probably a rather boring person(s) themselves. I love this book. I suggest to anyone waiting to mooch it to stop waiting for a copy to be available (I think I saw that it is on 400+ people's wish lists) and just go out and buy it. This is my first Danielewski book and I plan on reading his others pretty soon. The Whalestoe Letters, here I come!
Laura (USA: TX) (2010/11/24):
I'm only a couple hundred pages through a borrowed copy of the book, but I am pretty sure that all the weirdness is there for a reason. This is one heavy mind-trip of a book. Most of the footnotes are better off acknowledged than read (several pages of nothing but names of photographers, another long list of architectural stuff) but the book could not achieve its effect without them. The effect being something like a blueprint for schizophrenia. It is not for linear thinkers. The author is a genius.
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