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I love Oliver Sacks's case studies. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars are among my favorite books, ever. However, Musicophilia, a book about neurological conditions that affect a person's relationship with music, really doesn't fit into the same category as those two books.
My problem with Musicophilia is that it's much more abstracted than what I've come to expect from Sacks; it summarizes information about many people Sacks has worked with or heard about but ...more
My problem with Musicophilia is that it's much more abstracted than what I've come to expect from Sacks; it summarizes information about many people Sacks has worked with or heard about but ...more
The brain is so fascinating and some things in this book are really interesting, but it get tedious after awhile. I already read one of his books are strange brain/behavior phenomena and that was probably enough for me.
I enjoy anything by Oliver Sacks. His focus in this book is music and he presents anecdotal examples as evidence of his theories (many of which make me think "There but for the grace of God go I"). Great stuff!
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He is a genius and I want to marry his brain.
Feb 03, 2018
Sarah
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