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Book Description
‘Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent’ Observer In The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us consider indispensContinue
Critics
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telegraph.co.uk published on Tue, 4 Jan 2011
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Fear of the unseen
There was a time when detailed case histories, including direct quotations from patients’ accounts of their own experiences, formed a significant part of the medical literature. French doctors of the 19th century were particularly adept at writing su ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 12 Nov 2010
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The first 75% is very good
I liked the stories about people who use their minds to help their impaired vision, or use other parts of their brains to help their inability to read. The other 25% of the book is an account of a cancer ordeal by the author, and I found it really uninteresting, if measured relatively to the other k ... (continue)
ariadna73 said on Jun 9, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback
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The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks: review
Late in 2005, the writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks, then aged 72, began to notice something odd during his habitual daily swim. While he did the backstroke, a pattern of close-set wavy lines and starry coruscations played on the ceiling above him. ... (read full critics)