A review by ex_libris_volantes
Synesthesia by Richard E. Cytowic

Did not finish book. Stopped at 78%.

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.