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rtpodzemny's review
3.0
Less of an in-depth microhistory and more a collection of unrelated facts, but there were enough interesting tidbits to keep me engaged.
crisr8's review
4.0
This book reads better as a reference rather than a straight up nonfiction work. It is full of fascinating facts about color and the history of the meanings of various colors. It would probably drive linear thinkers nuts, though, because the info is cross referenced back and forth throughout the book. I think it is great.
khchristensen's review
2.0
I thought this would be really good but I remember literally nothing I read in this book. It's kind of pretty, though...
cmbwell's review
3.0
A fun book with snippets of facts about color. I enjoyed seeing a quote from a former professor of mine.
bjr2022's review
I didn't really read this book, so I'm not going to rate it. The mnemonic ROYGBIV popped into my head and I went down the rabbit hole of googling and ran into this title; my library has it so I took out the book.
This is a terrific resource for anybody doing research about any color or anything about color. I wish I'd had it when I needed it for an article about research on the color red: Red State Advantage? many years ago.
It's fun to page through and I hope I remember it if I need to research color again.
This is a terrific resource for anybody doing research about any color or anything about color. I wish I'd had it when I needed it for an article about research on the color red: Red State Advantage? many years ago.
It's fun to page through and I hope I remember it if I need to research color again.
emmerged's review
3.0
A very interesting book. I feel like I learned a lot of trivia, but I have two issues. One, it needed to be at least twice as long. While I was reading, I kept picking up my iPhone to consult Wikipedia and find out more about the shorter blurbs. I suppose you could view this as a good thing, as the book definitely inspired me to seek out more knowledge, but i would've appreciated more depth of information. Secondly, I found the page references on the side of each page to be very repetitive and I think they would be much more helpful if they were actual footnotes that added little tidbits of info relating to the subject matter on the page. Otherwise, Roy G Biv is a very intelligently written, exceedingly fascinating read.
skylarprimm's review
2.0
My mother loaned me this book after her book club read it, and it took me a few months to force myself to finish it. There is interesting information sprinkled throughout the book, but it reads to me like nothing so much as a collection of brief, unfinished Wikipedia articles. Any time I started to think a factoid was interesting, the author moved on to something else.
As a reference book or starting point for research into a color, this book has value. As something to read straight through, not so much.
As a reference book or starting point for research into a color, this book has value. As something to read straight through, not so much.
dreamcaravan's review
Hugely disappointing. The introduction alone is so full of errors and misinformation that this text should never have made it to print.
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