Thinks - David Lodge
This book was entertaining although a little smutty. Our two main players are Ralph Messenger, a philandering cognitive scientist, and Helen Reed a widowed novelist. It's when they meet on the campus of Gloucester University that the sparks begin to fly.
If you can get your head around the fact that this book is technically about sex there's not that many sex scenes in the book so that you feel like putting the book down and thinking that I shouldn't read this. It's a well written, intelligent, funny book. You got the scientist and the novelist bouncing their own views off each other has to how the human mind works, and the story does make you stop and think about what goes off in the old brain.
There's a fantastic sub-story (is this the right phrase?) in the book. A group of scientists took a new born baby and for thirty years kept her locked in a room without colour. The only colours that she ever saw in her life were black, white and all the shades inbetween. Her clothes, her food, her books were all completely devoid of colour. In the meantime they gave her a fantastic education, even teaching her about colour. The experiment was would this 31 year old woman who knew about colour but never seen it except for black, white and grey, would she know that a red rose was indeed red?. It's a great little addition to the story line.
It's a good little book, well worth a read