If How the Mind Works offers a smooth and surprisingly pleasant ride over some pretty rugged intellectual terrain, it is because Pinker writes in the same breezy style that brightens his classroom lectures. Steven Pinker's new book about the mind is big, brash, and a lot of fun. Mark Ridley in The New York Times Book Review, October 5, 1997, p. He is a top-rate writer, and deserves the superlatives that are lavished on him. No other science writer makes me laugh so much. He knows when to hold his readers' attention with an illustration or a joke.
Pinker has breathed marvelous life into the computational models, the originals of which are buried in nerdish obscurity. How the Mind Works is just as literate-witty popular science that you enjoy reading for the writing as well as for the science. Readers of Pinker's earlier book The Language Instinct will be delighted to see that there is "a new Pinker." After that masterpiece, expectations are inevitably high, but I was not disappointed. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times, November 24, 1997 For it alters completely the way one thinks about thinking, and its unforeseen consequences probably can't be contained by a book. As lengthy as it is, it will produce a book in the reader's head that is even longer. One must read "How the Mind Works" to feel the full force of the case it makes. Steven Pinker hasn't explained everything in his compelling new book.
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