A review by knittingdoc
Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man's Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life by Sanford D. Greenberg

4.0

I'm mixed about this book. I think it amazing and awesome for a human to have such memory and brain capacity to handle the efforts needed to advance in education after losing a sense. What a talented man. But, wow, what luck and privilege to be afforded these opportunities. Maybe the memoir is not detailed enough to support how he "got there" but it seems there has to be lots of luck, too. The second part of the book I did not enjoy. It seemed a laundry list of all the famous people he was friends with and seemed to add to the privilege the was afforded.

I "read" this book in audiobook. The narration by Art Garfunkel was quite soothing, but sometimes difficult to hear what he whispered. The book should have given more praise to Art Garfunkel. It seems he was one of the critical components to Mr. Greenberg's success. But, he was just his roommate who happens to sing.