This book was fascinating for what it was (and for its index, which is invaluable to me right now), but part of me still finds that the claims he makes hold up only insofar as they apply to literary scholars and, while Armstrong is persuasive in his arguments regarding what it is in our brains that make reading possible and enjoyable for us, his overall pitch to neurologists seems less cogent and grounded than it might be.

But his presentation of the neurological research within a humanities context and in a way that neither trivializes the work nor makes absurd claims about the hard problem of qualia was excellent and this book has been very well stickied.