Man Who Tasted Shapes

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 152
EAN: 9780874777383
ISBN: 0874777380
Label: Tarcher
Manufacturer: Tarcher
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 249
Publication Date: 1993-07-21
Publisher: Tarcher
Studio: Tarcher

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The world's scientific expert on cross-sensory perception gives a layman's account of an incredible neurological situation--hearing colors, tasting shapes, and seeing sounds. Welcome to the world of synesthesia.

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Summary: I Tasted a Hint of Soap Box...
Comment: I eagerly snatched this book off the shelf when I learned of it -- synesthesia is a fascinating subject with too few works devoted to it -- but Dr. Cytowic's tendency to climb onto his soap box took much of the potential pleasure out of "The Man Who Tasted Shapes". We are given details about only two people with the condition, and one of those only glancingly. The rest of the book is either written in coy dialogue form (taking scores of pages to relate an incident easily expressed in a paragraph -- padding, anyone?) or else denouncing other scientists' viewpoints. This is no "Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" [by Oliver Sacks], as the title seems to imply. I was left hungering to know more about the actual subject: synesthesia. I did not necessarily disagree with Dr. Cytowic's views, but they seemed to have pre-empted another book already in progress.

Janet Coleman Sides

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