Comments on: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks (Review) http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/08/review-of-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for.php Understand your mind with the science of psychology - Mon, 04 May 2009 10:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gritsforbreakfast http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/08/review-of-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for.php/comment-page-1#comment-20351 Gritsforbreakfast Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:18:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/08/the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-by-oliver-sacks-review.php#comment-20351 Isn't it fun to have a blog where you can review books you like instead of just books that are new, but often less interesting or important? I read this book on vacation last year and <a href="http://huevosrancherostx.blogspot.com/2006/08/books-im-reading-on-road.html" rel="nofollow">reviewed it myself</a> while on the road in Mexico.<br /><br />I find Oliver Sacks insufferably pompous as a writer, but he's a top shelf intellectual with the goods to back it up, and a brilliant wordsmith to boot, nearly living up to his own lofty opinions of his own work.<br /><br />Sacks is an important figure in modern medical history even apart from his writings, which taken together frankly put him nearly in a league by himself among public intellectuals with a medical specialty in the current generation. I'd enjoy his work just a tad more if he weren't so overtly aware of that fact. :) best, Isn't it fun to have a blog where you can review books you like instead of just books that are new, but often less interesting or important? I read this book on vacation last year and reviewed it myself while on the road in Mexico.

I find Oliver Sacks insufferably pompous as a writer, but he's a top shelf intellectual with the goods to back it up, and a brilliant wordsmith to boot, nearly living up to his own lofty opinions of his own work.

Sacks is an important figure in modern medical history even apart from his writings, which taken together frankly put him nearly in a league by himself among public intellectuals with a medical specialty in the current generation. I'd enjoy his work just a tad more if he weren't so overtly aware of that fact. :) best,

]]> By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author) http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/08/review-of-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for.php/comment-page-1#comment-20326 Jeremy (PsyBlog author) Thu, 16 Aug 2007 07:54:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/08/the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-by-oliver-sacks-review.php#comment-20326 Isabella, me too - it's incredible what the human mind is capable of. Isabella, me too - it's incredible what the human mind is capable of.

]]> By: isabella mori http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/08/review-of-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for.php/comment-page-1#comment-20317 isabella mori Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:41:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/08/the-man-who-mistook-his-wife-for-a-hat-by-oliver-sacks-review.php#comment-20317 a very memorable book indeed. i love the story about the highly autistic twins who engage in deep communion as they talk to each other in prime numbers. a very memorable book indeed. i love the story about the highly autistic twins who engage in deep communion as they talk to each other in prime numbers.

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