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John Harrison
Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing
Category: Science | Published: 2001 | Review Added: 27-04-2014
A book about synaesthesia, the neurological condition in which input for one sense gets "picked up" by others, resulting in subjects "seeing" sounds, and so on.
Sounds fascinating, but after a few pages this book started to strike me as superficial and carelessly organised. Worst of all was the appalling prose, riddled with grammatical errors and incorrect usages, that made me wonder if the Oxford University Press still employs editors.
After a couple of dozen pages, I gave up on it.