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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
Very readable case studies on some pretty remarkable people and situations!
The two wastes of my life that were called my "freshman English courses" in college were just that, but that's mostly based on the fact that my university is only good at sending rovers to Mars and not at identifying or valuing the deficiencies in or development of basic skills like critical reading and writing--and that my classmates were so awful that one of my two teachers actually called them the "box of rocks." That said, my second semester teacher actually had a kickass curriculum, because he decided that if freshman comp was a writing course, the texts could be documentaries (Goebbels' diaries narrated by Branagh), photography, and nonfiction just as easily as the usual short stories. So we read many of the essays in this book and in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and it was awesome, because it started my love for Sacks' writing and for neuroscience (and this English class taught me more neuroscience than the actual neuroscience class I took later, which was gawdawful).
I didn't read the whole book, but a few of the essays. It was enlightening and fascinating.
More good stuff from Sacks. More "everyday" conditions than The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, focusing on autism in particular.
More good stuff from Sacks. More "everyday" conditions than The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, focusing on autism in particular.
My second book by Dr Sacks and a fascinating read made worth it by a lovely portrait of the extraordinary Temple Grandin.
Oliver Sacks is fantastic. Such thought provoking stories. Glad I got to talk about them with my book club.
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informative
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