The depths in which the author goes to make this fictional essay believable are astounding. I'm honestly floored by the quality of this book. I deeply enjoyed my reading and I finished it in three days, but I must say I'm not even sure what to truly think about it story-wise. I guess that's the point, I'm left feeling a bit lost in my appreciation of this labyrinth of a novel. "The journey is more important than the destination", yada yada yada. One thing I regret though is that I never felt the horror of it all because I had so much fun skipping through the pages. Searching for the footnotes made me feel as if I were participating in a scavenger hunt (chapter IX especially) but in turn made me a bit too detached from the narrative.