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mary_sh's review against another edition
5.0
Interessantissimo escursus sulle allucinazioni di diversa eziologia, ma soprattutto sul quelle di origine neurologica, con riferimenti abbastanza puntuali alla letteratura scientifica e allo stesso tempo tante citazioni artistico-letterarie, adorato.
Unico difetto: ogni capitolo si dilunga un po' troppo, diventando saltuariamente un po' prolisso e ripetitivo.
Unico difetto: ogni capitolo si dilunga un po' troppo, diventando saltuariamente un po' prolisso e ripetitivo.
geisttull's review against another edition
2.0
quit reading half way through. years ago i read the man who mistook his wife for a hat and enjoyed it very much. it was told in story form, i was hoping this book would be similar but it is VERY scientific and seemed to be redundant to me. i lost interest and put it down!
megtall's review against another edition
3.0
The book itself was very interesting. I didn’t particularly love the narrator of the audiobook.
cosmicrusalka's review against another edition
5.0
Brains are so weird, especially when you have mental disorders. I found this book very interesting and it got me thinking a lot, but I found myself with some personal negative side effects of my own hallucinations. It's not that unusual for me to hallucinate due to the previously mentioned mental disorders, but they flared up rather badly while reading this book. I just find it fascinating that the brain acts the way it does sometimes.
tomrrandall's review against another edition
4.0
Interesting throughout; would have been better with more discussion of hallucinations throughout history.
stevenyenzer's review against another edition
3.0
Enjoyable, if a bit by-the-numbers. At times Hallucinations devolves into a simple litany of hallucinations, depending purely on the novelty of the visions to keep the pace up. This works more often than it doesn't, but at times I was bored. However, Sacks is a lively writer and skilled at explaining science and medical topics without making them feel dumbed down.
riverxz3's review against another edition
3.0
Recommended by Spider-Man himself, a really interesting topic with the brain and how humans are simply being modified by it, hence the power of the environment, our experience shapes this organ drastically.
Halfway into the book, it becomes repetitive.
Halfway into the book, it becomes repetitive.