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Title: Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens: How Synesthetes Color Their Worlds by Patricia Lynne Duffy ISBN: 0-8050-7187-3 Publisher: Owl Books (NY) Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Interesting Book...
Comment: I first happed upon this book by first hearing about it through a slew of synastesia web sites I had come across in my search to understand what was going on in my own head.
I as a synasthete really loved reading her personal stories and reflections and some of the research that she's found along the way. And especially loved listening to people talk about their colored letters and how they differed from mine and the shapes people saw and how they were a brigher reflection of the shapes I dimly see listening to music.
The reason that this book got only four stars is because of the fact that she acts like there isn't really that much information on synesthesia so she starts repeating the things she's said before.
If you're willing to step into the world of synesthesia and seeing for yourself the things that we see then this is a good book to start from.
Rating: 5
Summary: Informative and fun!
Comment: I first learned about the phenomenon of synesthesia in a review of Blue Cats in the journal Cerebrum, where Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, a world authority on synesthesia says, "This book is a delight. As far as I know, this is the first time a synesthete has written about what it is like to live with this neurological condition - one in which the senses are intermingled, so that the spoken word, "cat", for example, may consistently be experienced as blue." The review prompted me to get the book, which opened my eyes to the very different ways that people can perceive the world. I recommend 'Blue Cats'
Rating: 2
Summary: Tedium... yawn
Comment: I find synethesia fascinating and have read a few excellent articles on theories of the neurological basis.
This book wasn't just boring, it was tedious. I only skimmed certain pages in the second half of the book. I grew tired of reading the colors of different synethetes' letters, for example. To know that one person sees a green 'A' and another sees a blue 'A' is not compelling. A good half of the book was comprised on such droning descriptions in run-on sentences.
There were mentions of researchers in the field but little information about the research. Some famous historical figures were mentioned as well, which was interesting, but only ~10 pages worth of the book.
I would recommend this book to no one. If you got it free, I would be hesitant to recommend you spend your time reading it. Such prose may be interesting to people with a high synesthetic response, I'll leave that open as an unknown. As someone with only mild such perception but with high curiosity about neurological functioning, I found reading this book a compulsive chore.
This gets two stars instead of one since there were no gross spelling errors, the font was readable, and other trivial details.
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Title: The Man Who Tasted Shapes by Richard E. Cytowic ISBN: 0262531526 Publisher: Bradford Book Pub. Date: 10 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently by Allen D. Bradgon, David Gamon Ph.D. ISBN: 0916410676 Publisher: Brainwaves Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass ISBN: 0316523887 Publisher: Little, Brown Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Man Who Tasted Shapes : A Bizarre Med. Mystery Offers Rev. Insight Into Emotions & by Richard E., M.D. Cytowic ISBN: 0446670685 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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Title: Synaesthesia: Classic and Contemporary Readings by John E. Harrison, Simon Baron-Cohen ISBN: 0631197648 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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