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The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

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  • 04-01-2008 3:05pm
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    Setun
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    Anybody else read any of Oliver Sacks books?

    Kinda stranger-than-fiction stuff - he's a neurologist who writes about various perceptual and physiological deficiencies his patients have/have had - for example people who cannot perceive motion, or cannot hear music. Reading Musicophilia at the mo, fascinating stuff.


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    John
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    I've only read The Man Who... which I really liked. I want to get Musicophilia, what do you think of it?


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    Setun
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    It's great, it's a hard one to put down. If you are really into your music you'll enjoy it as you'll probably learn a bit more about the way you perceive music yourself.

    One weird thing though, Oliver Sacks appears to be obsessed with Chopin. He mentions him every second page basically.


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    Valmont
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    I loved the man who... and I still dip into it every now and then. I should get around to musicophilia soon enough.


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    Ginny
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    His autobiog is really good too.


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    ZorbaTehZ
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    I'm reading An Anthropologist on Mars atm, and I also have The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat on my shelf.

    A lot of the stuff I've read about before, but some of it like about the guy with temporal lobe epilepsy is really quite astonishing and v interesting.


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