Of course it's not the case for all of the patients in this book, but I'm impressed by the determination by so many not to give up. The joy that can still be found in life for many of these people is quite inspiring. But Oliver Sacks wrote it with such heart, that it's more about the human ability to persevere and overcome these disabilities. Something you'd flick through absentmindedly every once in awhile. A man who mistook his wife for a hat, a man who woke up every morning thinking he was eighteen, a woman whose body feels completely alien to her. It almost sounds like this is a Guinness World Record book. I initially wanted to read it (or listen to the audiobook in this case) because the title case sounded so unlikely I needed to understand how it could happen. This was a really interesting collection of case histories involving patients with a collection of bizarre neurological disorders.
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