This sounded like a great idea for a book, but I was disappointed. The writing is not great, in fact it’s downright awkward in many spots. And it was aggravating that they spent so much time in a cosmological history of the entire universe: yeah, sure, if there had been no Big Bang there would be no photons and hence no light and hence no color, but it was absurd to spend so much time on it. Every single book about any subject could justify this as well, a book about Norwegian shoes could also start with the Big Bang. Similarly, way too much ink was used explaining evolution via natural selection.

Despite my gripes, there -was- a lot of interesting stuff about color in the book. Shame to have to wade through so much other stuff to see it, and a shame the writing wasn’t better. (I admit I can’t write, myself, but I think I know good science writing when I see it, and this is substandard. )

Sadly, this book was scheduled to be released with an American Museum of Natural History (NYC) exhibit about color that opened in March - talk about bad timing. ( )

Very light. Doesn't really go into detail on any one subject. Gets briefly interesting when talking about subjective experiences of colour and then suddenly ends always mid-sentence. ( )