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Elentarri's Book Blog rated it

5 years ago

text The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks

TITLE: The Mind's Eye AUTHOR: Oliver Sacks DATE PUBLISHED: 2010 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780330508896 __________________________ DESCRIPTION: "In Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in The Mind's Eye, he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience t...

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warrior rated it

7 years ago

text The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

Really interesting presentation of different neurological conditions, if quite unstructured at times. Some of the language felt fairly dated, but overall I loved the positivism of the author and would definitely like to read more from him.

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Thewanderingjew rated it

8 years ago

text My brother always used to say we are all born with an expiration date. This man faced his with dignity.

This really brief book of four essays count among the most moving pieces I have ever read by anyone facing his own imminent demise. Having survived his unusual cancer for almost a decade, he was shocked to discover that although he felt wonderfully well, he was, indeed, now doomed. He took solace fr...

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TsalagiWriter rated it

9 years ago

text Gratitude by Oliver Sacks

A short book of essays that the author wrote about life, aging, illness, and dying. A nice little inspirational book about having gratitude for the things and people in your life.

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Emad Attely [The Book Nerd] rated it

9 years ago

text The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

This book is truly enthralling. I enjoyed it very much. It tells stories of people who we wouldn't imagine they even exist. But .. I have to admit that at some point I felt really bored!Nevertheless, it is definitely worth reading.

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Ruined by Reading rated it

10 years ago

text Swan Song

Too bad there's no bittersweet emoji. (And ironic that a website that dedicates itself to the discussion of books would want us to distill our ideas about a thing made of many words to a little yellow circle. Aren't we all here to avoid this?) Anyway. This is Oliver Sacks love letter to the worl...

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bobsburgers23 rated it

10 years ago

text The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

I only took off a star because I'm not a doctor and don't know what all of the medical terms mean, which meant that a lot of the value of the book was gone for me. Nevermind.

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travelin rated it

10 years ago

text The Island of the Colorblind

I KNEW, KNEW that Oliver Sacks wouldn't give me informative details on the epidemiology of islands. His chatty, superficial, and self-absorbed style made me drop both his Hat and Awakenings books and give it 4 stars anyway, out of what, charity? But this one I bought new, with high hopes anyway, and...

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XOX rated it

10 years ago

text Oliver Sacks tell stories about persons with brain damages

And how a man could not tell object from person that inspired the title. Good one. Read it a long long time ago. But still important.

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Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it

10 years ago

text Forgettable

Two problems with this book. First, the title is misleading since only about 1/5 or the stories (and a couple of essays) deal with what I would call amnesia, the rest could mostly be loosely defined as mind or memory stories, and about 1/10 just don't belong here. They must have been editor favorite...

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