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Oliver Sacks has always had the ability to make us see the world differently. With his eloquent, compassionate, enormously intelligent stories about individuals who live with some of the world's more unusual neurological conditions, Sacks dares us to examine what we consider as normal and to introduce us to the wonders and strangeness of the human brain. Every time I read one of his books, I feel like the world undergoes a subtle transformation, and the ordinary habits of memory, recognition, and sight suddenly seem both mysterious and infinitely fascinating. In this book, Sacks considers the act of seeing. He offers us the case histories of people who lose their ability to read, to recognize what they are seeing, and who, after a lifetime of seeing flat, learn to see in 3D. And although all the cases are given the same depth of consideration, Sacks also writes about his personal struggles with prosopagnosia (the inability to recognize individual faces) and the tumor which deprived him of part of his sight and the entirety of his depth perception. -- Megan K. |
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