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sdoncolo 's review for:
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
by Susannah Cahalan
It's hard to review this book in part because it's difficult not to admire Cahalan for doing the investigation (not to mention physical and mental recovery) to be able to write the book at all. The syndrome and the story are fascinating, and that is interesting in and of itself. The character felt flat and a little forced, but I'm not sure how much of that is fair to critique as the writing and how much is Cahalan's limited ability to tell this story, because she can't remember it -- though it's still worth telling.
On a "reading as a writer" note, I think it would be better as a long-form article than a book; it became a little redundant for my taste, and it's not very well edited. Listening to the audiobook has done more than anything I've ever read/heard to persuade my that writers should eliminate adverbs from their writing.
On a "reading as a writer" note, I think it would be better as a long-form article than a book; it became a little redundant for my taste, and it's not very well edited. Listening to the audiobook has done more than anything I've ever read/heard to persuade my that writers should eliminate adverbs from their writing.