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I could not put this book down. This true story was absolutely fascinating and partially scary, mainly because of the fact that it's a true story.
[a:Susannah Cahalan|5778057|Susannah Cahalan|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1353287968p2/5778057.jpg] woke up one day in a hospital room, strapped to her bed, with no memory of how she got there. Cahalan has been a journalist at the New York Post and was during the time of this story. One day she was a put-together, successful journalist with a great career and relationship and the next she was labeled "flight risk." Cahalan tells the story of her medical mystery and her journey through this "month of madness."
This book was 100% one of my favorite books of all time and I will definitely be reading it again. I cannot recommend this book enough.
[a:Susannah Cahalan|5778057|Susannah Cahalan|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1353287968p2/5778057.jpg] woke up one day in a hospital room, strapped to her bed, with no memory of how she got there. Cahalan has been a journalist at the New York Post and was during the time of this story. One day she was a put-together, successful journalist with a great career and relationship and the next she was labeled "flight risk." Cahalan tells the story of her medical mystery and her journey through this "month of madness."
This book was 100% one of my favorite books of all time and I will definitely be reading it again. I cannot recommend this book enough.
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Very well written. The book is very informal too. It was my second ever audiobook and it was enjoyable! I think I would have liked to read a physical copy of this book more than listen to it but this story and author are so interesting and important that I’m glad I got to mark it as read from my TBR.
Wow, I could not put this book down. It's incredibly gripping and terrifying. The movie is excellent as well, but of course the book is definitely better. I highly recommend picking it up!
Memory is so fickle, there's no such thing as a reliable narrator. Forget the pursuit of happiness, pursue the SELF.
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Again the dilemma of reviewing an autobiographical book about something that had a devastating effect for the author: give it 5 stars for the amazing good the information is doing to others experiencing the same, or rate it based on the things I usually enjoy about nonfiction writing. So I compromised with 3 stars.
The book is about the craziness and dangers of misdiagnoses. It's about having your body turn against you, keeping you an unrexognizable captive to others who are bound to think you've just gone insane. Cahalan's experience is the most extreme case of an autoimmune disease I have heard of, yet facets of her symptoms and reactions are familiar to those of us dealing with more garden-variety types of autoimmune issues.
On the other hand, I found myself leafing through some pages because Cahalan's tone could change from highly personal and invested to thesaurus-assisted descriptions of scenes to super dry runs of factoids that seemed to be lifted straight out of Wikipedia. Or maybe we can go meta and say that the book is simply a metaphor for how the illness made her inconsistent in the ways she expressed herself...? If the topic itself had not been so interesting, I would have left this book unfinished due to what to me seemed like a very disjointed narration.
The book is about the craziness and dangers of misdiagnoses. It's about having your body turn against you, keeping you an unrexognizable captive to others who are bound to think you've just gone insane. Cahalan's experience is the most extreme case of an autoimmune disease I have heard of, yet facets of her symptoms and reactions are familiar to those of us dealing with more garden-variety types of autoimmune issues.
On the other hand, I found myself leafing through some pages because Cahalan's tone could change from highly personal and invested to thesaurus-assisted descriptions of scenes to super dry runs of factoids that seemed to be lifted straight out of Wikipedia. Or maybe we can go meta and say that the book is simply a metaphor for how the illness made her inconsistent in the ways she expressed herself...? If the topic itself had not been so interesting, I would have left this book unfinished due to what to me seemed like a very disjointed narration.
emotional
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medium-paced