A review by markfeltskog
Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett

As I blithely leave a three-star review for this book, it occurs to me that I ought to explain my reasons for doing so. Over the years, I inferred that this is a book for the common reader; when it comes to the broad and frequently abstruse topic the book explores, I am most certainly a common reader. Unfortunately, this book appears to be addressed to people who have some background in its topic. It is not necessarily a book for specialists, but I could see how this would be an appropriate text for a survey course in a number of undergraduate courses on the science of the human mind. I confess that I didn't understand much of the book, but stuck with it anyway. which leads to my highly subjective, arguably erroneous assessment of it. If nothing else, Mr. Dennett is an engaging stylist with a gift for rendering complex ideas in relatively basic similes without trivializing them. What I endeavor to say, I guess, is that I am not really qualified to comment on this apparently well-regarded book.