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Title: An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
ISBN: 0679437851
Author:
Oliver Sacks
Publicate Date: 1995-02-07
Publish: 1995-02-07
List Price: $24.00
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Hardcover
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1: More of the fascinating same from Oliver Sacks
Though I wouldn't recommend reading every single one of Sacks's books, because there's a lot of overlap, this is another good one with some fascinating, readable stories. Anyone interested in how the mind works and how it may NOT work should read it.
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2: Incredible experiences
These are seven stories of people with some neurological aberration. These are all stories of real people, everyday difficulties, of denial & acceptance, of the indomitable human spirit.
A painter's colorful world goes gray with impeccable tonality. A monk revels in a Grateful Dead concert & has no memory of it the day after as he awaits his deceased father. An autistic child paints in breathtaking detail from memories that formed within seconds. A blind man cannot adjust to the gift of sight. A surgeon with tics; a painter compulsively obsessed with his childhood village.
These stories reveal the constant struggle against, in most cases, an unsurpassable odd. And yet, quite a few of them are about making the very best of this aberration, & translating what would be a handicap in a normal everyday world to a differentiating ability.
Sacks writes with sincerity & pathos.
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3: amazingly inspirational
AMAZING book. Hands down, one of my favorites!
The book is so incredibly inspirational! Everyone has a 'disability' one way or another, in this book, Sacks explores some of the extreme cases, and takes their life story to show how he/she has overcome with 'not being normal'. Sacks does a great job writing the book for people not in the medical field -- he takes the time to explain the situation without coming close to making the reader fall asleep.
I never get sick of this book. It is truly inspirational.
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4: Amazing
This book introduces the reader to a collection of weird neurological conditions accompanied by stories and supplemental background information relating to each example. Its focus is on the stories of patients encountered by the author during the course of his career.
Sacks has a great eye for the details that make his characters interesting; his descriptions of his patients bizarre behavior are spot on. His tone is warm, friendly and has a touch of humor to it which I find most endearing. All of the stories are really page turners and I literally couldn't put this or its prequel (man who mistook his wife for a hat) down till I had devoured them both.
The other thing that makes this book amazing is the way sacks presents the background information for each of his cases. For example, the artist who lost the ability to see in color. Sacks does a great job of mixing case history with philosophy and physics in his efforts to explain how the human brain deals with color. The real art of this is that he manges to do it in the middle of the story without killing the readers interest.
Buy it now!
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5: An Anthropologist on Mars
If you are interested at all in brain research, you will find this book fascinating.
The author celebrates the human strength to overcome disabilities and the true creative drive that may be buried in each of us. I highly recommend this book for learning and also for inspiration.
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