A review by milandeep
The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks

3.0

The River of Consciousness has a bunch of posthumous essays by the neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks. These essays were a mixed bag for me and the title was misleading. As a couple of other reviews have mentioned that it seems a ghost-writer was used to finish this book after the death of the author. "The Fallibility of Memory" was my favorite essay of the lot which tells how our memories keep changing with time and how sometimes other people memories become a part of our own memory. The essays on Darwin and Freud were also interesting. I was hoping to read more about the consciousness but was disappointed on that part. Nevertheless, Dr. Sacks draws his writings from the experiences with his patients, mixes them with science and history to provide thoughtful essays.