The Island of the Colorblind

It's a mix of narrative and factual account, I mostly enjoyed it, but found that I wanted more information on somethings and less on others.

It's interesting (most of the time), yet dense, but I feel that it was misleading. Little time is spent on the actual colorblindness, which is the primary reason for picking up this book, the secondary reason was that is was by Oliver Sacks. It was misleading in that I thought that book was going to fixate on the colorblind, or at least their island, but it's only a third (roughly) of the book, we then wander to Guam to learn about a mystery disease, and then on to Rota for the cycads. At times these additional subjects were fascinating, occasionally getting bogged down in jargon – although that was partially expected – and at times I just reached my limit for caring, my interest for the additional subjects were not of his depth.