This novel is simply breath taking. It is not the best piece of writing ever published, but it is an extremely inventive and entertaining book which will make you think about the reality in which you live in and how you experience it as it happens. The narration of Zampano's manuscript by Johnny Truant is at times very lengthy and lacking in redeming value but, like Patrick Bateman's lengthy discourses on apparel in American Psycho, they lend themselves to character development as well as theme and texture. By far the best aspect of this book is the fact that is the description of visual and spatial qualities of a unviewable film, written by a man who himself is totally blind. This, combined with the narrative format creates a sort of wonderful un-film, a story which could never be put onto a reel but at the same time is only truly fulfilled when the reader transforms the words into the fictional film of which the narrator is speaking.