Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
by:
Oliver Sacks (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330418386 (0330418386)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 424
Edition language: English
Really cool anecdotes and not terribly technical. I would have expected a little diagram of the brain in the beginning of the book so I could have looked up what parts were happening where, but there wasn't. There was also remarkably little about why these things were happening but I suppose science...
Probably my favourite of the many Oliver Sacks' books I've read throughout the years. Sacks is always fascinating, but in this book he is even more passionate and more personal than usual and as a result my usual Sacks afterglow (for some reason his books always leave me ridiculously happy and hopef...
That is why I would give this a four to four and a half stars, not five. Still, it is a very interesting areas to read and study. Book on music. Not about music itself but on how human experience music. As usual, this is a good read. A woman who was a musician all her life is losing this power i...
Look, [a:Sacks|843200|Oliver Sacks|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1222681187p2/843200.jpg] is a great writer with a huge pool of research and interesting anecdotes to impart.My problem is that I don't understand what the consequence of these anecdotes is, beyond my own amusement. For t...
Very interesting anecdotes and well written stories. The book unfortunately lacks a scientific gravity because there is no meaning or context given to the anecdotes. Feels more like a collection of random memories than a well structured book on music and the brain.
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