A review by storyorc
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

The cadence of this book is like: pleasant, pleasant, pleasant, startling fact you have to rewind to make sure you heard right and miss the next few sentences pondering, pleasant, pleasant, pleasant - and so on. The stories feature people going above and beyond making the most of strokes and accidents that give them brain damage and interrupt their perceptive abilities in various ways. Some of their adaptations - like a blind man who plays chess via echolocation and a mute woman who communicates via a very long list of words - verge on superhuman (though the author prefers the more scientifically-accurate term "supernormal"). I found the first 3 chapters most impressive.