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Genuinely fascinating. It felt like I was reading a real-life House case. If you are interested in the brain, this memoir will absolutely enthrall you!
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Such a terrifying, captivating story. A great read/listen for those who are interested in neurology and psychiatry.
I listened to the audiobook and I think the narrator did a pretty good job, but the foreign accents were a bit cringey.
I listened to the audiobook and I think the narrator did a pretty good job, but the foreign accents were a bit cringey.
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Definitely an interesting account of how one young woman's life was flipped upside down, but with lackluster execution.
I'm not a huge nonfiction fan in general, but I do enjoy the occasional memoir. However, with this book I felt that the delivery was dull and lacked depth. It wasn't a very long book, but it took me a while to read it because it dragged. It's very heavy on the medical jargon, which sometimes I don't mind, but in this case it detracted from the story, rather than add to it. The author herself is a journalist for a newspaper and you can definitely tell that from the way she writes- a little too straightforward and lacking the finesse required for audiences reading a book.
I'm not a huge nonfiction fan in general, but I do enjoy the occasional memoir. However, with this book I felt that the delivery was dull and lacked depth. It wasn't a very long book, but it took me a while to read it because it dragged. It's very heavy on the medical jargon, which sometimes I don't mind, but in this case it detracted from the story, rather than add to it. The author herself is a journalist for a newspaper and you can definitely tell that from the way she writes- a little too straightforward and lacking the finesse required for audiences reading a book.
I read this for my AP Bio co-teaching duties this year - and this was a great choice to get our kids excited by the subject. The neuroscientist in me are this shit up! Give me some NDMA receptors mixed in with a little NYC. I loved the way this was written, including Susannah’s hallucinations weaved throughout the story.
I didn’t know anything about this before reading, but was pleasantly surprised by Cahalan’s recounting of this time in her life — both her own reflections and the science. Some aspects in Cahalan’s writing felt a bit dated.
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beautifully written and inspirational. i love how she got down in the nitty gritty of the science without making the reader feel excluded. also love how she acknowledged how privileged she was to have the familial and finacial support leading to her diagnosis and her active efforts to afford that privilege to others.