Thinks… is a story of Ralph Messenger, an international academic star in the highly trendy field of language and thought research and writer Helen Reed, who arrives at the university to teach creative writing and to recover from the unexpected death of her husband. Despite huge differences in belief and temperament, they gradually involve in a secret affair - with complicated consequences, comic and tragic, for those around them. It is a dazzling exploration of love and deception, the enigmas of consciousness and the intricacies of the human heart.

- What I enjoyed immensely is the novelty of the author’s style – in one novel we find streams of thoughts, scientific-report-like chapters and the third person’s (author’s, probably) point of view all blended perfectly, letting us take part in characters inner thoughts, their own inner circle, enjoying life as well as suffering with them. On the whole it’s a very well written book.

- I liked the happy ending and I think it fitted well with the rest of the novel, but the author should have left more to our imagination, and not describe future fates of all the characters in so many details.

- First of all, Thinks… is a good book, well worth reading due to the completeness of its characters, a cleverly crafted storyline and an amusing social circle of the campus it deals with. But, to be fair, the author hadn’t been up to his task at the very end of the book – the ending is rushed, solved with a cliché of cancer and a happy ending, the purpose of which seems to be only to wrap up the novel.

- An enormous amount of research on the part of the author is something every reader will appreciate – all these more or less novel ideas in cognitive science, well researched and described, are enough to occupy you throughout the whole book, even if you don’t care so much for the characters.

- Regarding the age of the author, the novel is very contemporary, both in its approach to science and modern living, as well as in its style.

- If you don’t care much for cognitive science, don’t be put off this book – it’ll excite you with some rather disturbing and intriguing questions about relationship between literature and science.