Andrew's Brain
by:
E.L. Doctorow (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781408704981 (1408704986)
Publish date: January 16th 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
We're all Pretenders, Doctor, even you. Especially you. Why are you smiling? Pretending is the brain's work. It's what it does. The brain can even pretend not to be itself. There has got to be someone somewhere that will love this book but unfortunately I am not that person. Immediately when I fini...
I listened to this audio in one sitting, trying to understand it. It was short, just over three hours. I replayed several parts over and over, trying to understand the point. I fear I missed some of it. A man is speaking to what appears to be a psychiatrist, but could just as easily have been an ima...
One of my most painful to listen to audiobooks ever and it wasn't the narrator. The blurb says "we are led to question what we know about truth and memory, brain and mind, personality and fate, about one another and ourselves." and the book did none of this for me. It left me wanting to smack Andrew...
I received this book as a part of a Goodreads giveaway. I was intrigued by the premise of Andrew’s Brain. I have been trying to expand my literature intake and Andrew’s Brain definitely fit the criteria for me. The first fifty or so pages I struggled and I mean struggled to get through (you can see ...
Title: Andrew's Brain Who wrote it? E.L. Doctorow, the man behind such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Plot in a box: The title isn't misleading. Andrew's Brain is told entirely in conversation, from the perspective of the titular character as he relates stories, memories...
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