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Title: Awakenings by Oliver W. Sacks ISBN: 0-375-70405-1 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderfully written, but less than that of his other work...
Comment: If I had never read "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat" before this book (both by the same author), I would have rated this as a five-star classic. Though as well written as the other work, this book presents his studies in a less humane, and more scientific way. Read the other work and one will sense the noticeable difference in the way that Dr. Sacks approached his patients. When reading the "Awakenings", I felt as a detached bystander looking through the windows of his clinic and observing the patients. When reading "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat", I was so engaged by Dr. Sacks vivid descriptions of the patients, physically, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually, that it was as if I was face-to-face with the patients, and that I was connected in some intrinsic way to each and every one of them. Please please read the other work as well as this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't expect the movie
Comment: This is the true story of a group of very sick people permanently living in a hospital. They have an amazing semi-recovery due to some drug experimentation, but there is no lasting or long-term recovery.
Unlike the movie, there is no love story, and the Leonard character is not a lovable hero. But the book is well written, and the medical ramifications are clearly explained for the lay-person.
I recommend this, and all of Oliver Sacks' books, highly.
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant, though confusing
Comment: though this book can get extremely confusing at some times, it is well worth both the money, and your time. a true story, and an amazing one at that, it makes it all the more of an incredible read.
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Title: The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat : And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0684853949 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks ISBN: 0679756973 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks ISBN: 0684853957 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 29 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W. Sacks, Oliver, M.D. Sacks ISBN: 0375704078 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 28 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver W. Sacks ISBN: 0375704043 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 17 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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