edboies's review
5.0
Reading the intial article in the New Yorker really knocked me for a loop and made me think a lot about how people think and interact with each other. Provocative and humane.
doruga's review
5.0
Incredibly interesting book. Oliver made me feel that there is some deep secret of how the human mind works and its relation to our animalness/time/space. I feel like you could write incredible sci fi from each of the stories here. I also appreciated how Oliver emphasized how each person here is, in the end, human, and deserving of empathy and respect. He doesnt treat the disabled people here like lab rats; instead always seeking and focusing on the humanity in them. Very good!
kather21's review
3.0
The brain is amazing and Sacks writes with wonder and enthusiasm that is contageous.
flordemaga's review against another edition
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Ableism, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Death, Blood, Animal death, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty
thebigness's review
4.0
Fascinating and well written, though sometimes a little bit of a slog to get through with the technical language. The book is 20 years old and certainly some of this information is dated but it is still a fascinating look into the mind and some of the neurological processes we don't yet fully understand.