Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
Book Review: Not His Best Work
Summary: 3 Stars
Somewhat engaging, but not nearly as good as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Awakenings, or An Anthropologist on Mars.Book Review: interesting
Summary: 4 Stars
It's very well written. Have interesting cases and lot's of serious cientifical discussion. I't will certainly become a "must have" for Music educators and other kinds of musicians. Book Review: Musicophilia
Summary: 5 Stars
The book was fascinating. In addition to offering a comprehensive set of narratives about extraordinary mental conditions involving the perception of music, it provided an entry into awareness of the activities of the brain, as they are now known. It also suggested some provocative philosophical and theological questions. ``Book Review: Random, uninteresting stories
Summary: 1 Stars
I was expecting some information on how the music affects the mind, learning, etc. However, this was just a bunch of unrelated stories about the strange effect of brain injuries on people. Maybe I would have read more if the stories were developed enough to care about the people in the stories, but I stopped reading the book 1/2 way through. Sacks seems to have "phoned it in" on this one.Book Review: Not what I expected
Summary: 2 Stars
I was looking for an interesting book about how music interacts with the human mind. What I got was a list of case studies of patients with varying degrees of amusia. Some of the stories are interesting and present exciting insight into the human mind the the effects music has upon it, but most stories are repetitive, long, and uninteresting.
This was the first book I've read by Sacks after hearing much high praise for him, but I do not plan to purchase any of his other works after this mostly uninspired read.
If you are interested in case studies of people losing and/or regaining their ability to hear music then perhaps this book is for you. If you are looking for a look inside the human brain and its interactions with music as I was, you will likely find this book lacking.