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aquint's review
3.0
I was disappointed by this book. I felt there was a disconnect between the history of neuroscience and Sarkin's story. They could have been two separate books and been far more interesting. Plus I found the shift in tone between the history chapters and those of his life distracting. For the Sarkin bits, the language seemed overly flowery. I don't feel that this book did his life or his art justice. I also can't fathom why photos of his artwork were not included within the text.
katebelt's review
5.0
Fascinating information and research findings about the brain. I love this quote from E.O. Wilson about the evolution of imagination: "Art whether painted or written or song, is a story, a kind of virtual reality that we can try on, but by imaginatively practicing can use to greatly shorten an otherwise dangerously long learning curve. There was not enough time for human heredity to cope with the vastness of new contingent possibilities revealed by high intelligence."
eyegee's review
3.0
The book tells the story of one man's experience of surviving a brain injury and includes a lot of recent discoveries about how the brain works, as well as other case histories.
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