I picked this up after hearing a segment about it on This American Life. I was expecting a weird/funny story like the one about the goat guy who tried to digest grass. This is similar, but also very different. It's really an extended meditation on qualia, on to what extent it is possible to truly understand the subjective life experience of any other. It's absolutely one of the strangest things I've read, but it was also charming and very engagingly written.
