An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks

327 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

Description

Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a ne...

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Moods

informative 90%
reflective 63%
inspiring 33%
challenging 27%
emotional 21%
funny 9%
hopeful 9%
sad 9%
adventurous 3%
lighthearted 3%
relaxing 3%

Pace

slow 51%
medium 45%
fast 3%

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4.08

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