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 - Wonderful book!I bought this book years ago and I still think it's one of the best I ever read. It's a permanent part of my library. Rating:  - GoodWhile reading "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," I had the feeling I was reading a book written by a serious doctor who has the giddy sense of also being a writer. Sacks has a good hand at writing, more or less, until he steers into the circular quagmire of medical and philosophical notation. The case studies are fascinating, often eerie, tales of bodies and mental wiring gone mad. Less cheers for the medical explanations that dips too far into scientific minutiae. Rating: - Extremely HelpfulThis book has helped me in so many ways to understand the human mind. I can't say enough about this book, except to tell people to buy it. Rating:  - Be thankful after reading this bookBe thankful after reading this book, Be thankful you do not have one of these very interesting yet severe neuropsychological illnesses. a great book, very interesting, it teaches you a lot about the human body and mind, and as someone famous once said, it shows you how "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong". I would not miss it! Rating: - A must read!This book was assigned text for a neuropsych. class I had during my undergraduate degree. It was by far the best text I've had assigned in any class. This book, along with Ramachandran's, Phantom's in the Brain, was the first time I even considered the Nature side of the Nature/Nurture debate. I will never forget the stories. Learning about these cases with brain disorders left me with such a sense of awe for what the brain can do. Sacks has a wonderful writing style that turns philosophical at the end of each story, so you are left with a lot of food for thought. It is also a great exercise to follow his choices at each step and weight it against what you may have done. In association with Amazon.com | |