ash_mhl 's review for:

Everything in Its Place by Oliver Sacks
3.0

I think if you're going to read this you should approach it more as a short-story collection than as a traditional memoir, as it lacks any cohesive unity that most memoirs have. I found some of the recollections very interesting, others left me bored. It is rare for me to feel that way, and the best I can figure with this book is that some of the experiences that are recalled here lack any sense of the meaning Sacks derived from them, and so I can find no interest in the telling. There were also chapters which engaged me fully and I enjoyed very much. Its failing is simply the lack of consistency.