It'd be interesting to see what this book would look like if someone were to take the Navidson parts and put them together in the fashion of a regular narrative. I think it would hold up well, if not be even better than the disjointed, experimental, Pale Fire-meets-DFW style of the novel. While there are portions of the book that are totally engaging (like some of Truant's stories or when the explorers first enter the mystery room/corridor), the structure of the book (by which I mean the way the story is actually printed on the page) breaks up the story to a point where the novel gets really annoying, especially the pages only partially printed or printed at strange angles.