Awakenings by Oliver Sacks Summary and Reviews
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Book Review: Mesmerizing
Summary: 5 Stars
What is it like to be nearly frozen in time? To have your whole sense of time radically changed, so that an action that takes 3 hours in real time for an encephalitis lethargica patient is perceived by that person as taking but a moment to complete? Sacks explores this and other phenomena in a provocative, compassionate look at the people trapped inside of their own diseased bodies. Recommended reading.Book Review: very passionate & compassionate
Summary: 5 Stars
As a Humanist who doesn't believe in "God," I was deeply moved by Sacks, one man trying his very best to help his fellow man. There is no God who afflicts or "allows" some people to "suffer" from diseases that Sacks treats. There's just natural processes at work & by chance, some of us will be the ones that'll have to endure certain diseases. And, thank "God" (huh?), that there are people in this world like Sacks who dedicate their lives to healing hopeless cases. Most of us couldn't tolerate spending an hour with his patients. But they are people even though they're "zombies." Sacks' writing on occasion, gets too "shop talk" (just like in the movie when Dr. Sayer spoke to the families of patients till Nurse Eleanor slipped him a note), but bear with it and you'll read other parts in the book where Sacks will almost make you cry & thank God that you've been spared & your loved ones too! A must read for any Humanist or any human who doesn't resort to God to understand & cope withBook Review: wonderful
Summary: 5 Stars
i agree w/ luria: this is truly a great book, destined to become a classic. it is not flawless, but it strikes me as human, on every page. sacks has never been so passionate and eloquent, reviving the great art of the clinical tale in the tradition of freud. his metaphysical contemplation of the nature of disease and health is one of the most profound in our time. this is his masterpiece