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dsgn301's review against another edition
3.0
Compared to other books in the MIT Essential Knowledge series, I found this one was a bit more technical and less accessible, it had interesting elements and was informative, but overall it felt more like coursework than reading.
ex_libris_volantes's review against another edition
Interesting but kind of dry and hard to follow. I’m satisfied just knowing a bit of the way certain neurotypes experience the world, but this tried so hard to definitively describe the experience of being synesthete that it was kind of alienating when it would regularly note that it is practically impossible to understand it from the outside. By being very scientific and study-based in nature, that just added to the inaccessibility of the material as someone who doesn’t experience synesthesia. I did DNF at about 80% because I was getting bored and no longer absorbing anything from it.
vereena87's review against another edition
4.0
Nice and concise introduction to the subject. May cause mental pain for a synesthete when the author talks about wrong coloured letters :p
alexander0's review against another edition
4.0
This is a really nice introduction to the subject. As a person who has synesthesia, this is a great reference to know if you want to explain what the phenomena is like. One of the major difficulties as a person who has this is understanding what it's like to NOT have it. This book helps a lot. It also helps separate different kinds of synesthesia in a way that is enlightening.
Being someone who has SSS and "colored hearing" (which apparently is kind of rare since SSS is a category that doesn't seem to cross over to other areas), this helped explain to me so many of my life choices and linguistic claims that might have seemed odd to socially claim otherwise, but made total sense to me.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who thinks maybe they have synesthesia, or want to understand a phenomena that is not immediately material, but is never the less, scientifically sound.
Being someone who has SSS and "colored hearing" (which apparently is kind of rare since SSS is a category that doesn't seem to cross over to other areas), this helped explain to me so many of my life choices and linguistic claims that might have seemed odd to socially claim otherwise, but made total sense to me.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who thinks maybe they have synesthesia, or want to understand a phenomena that is not immediately material, but is never the less, scientifically sound.
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