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 | After some years ago reading Sacks classic `The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat `I was keen to read something else. His biography seemed to be an intriguing option. Sadly I was very disappointed with this book. Although the title hints at an involvement with chemistry I did not expect the book to be almost entirely about chemistry and its history. I estimate that 95% of the book is concerned with this subject. There is little space given to detail of his actual life and absolutely no mention of psychology or neurology. Since this is of course the aspect of Sacks that attracts most people to his books this will be a complete surprise to most people. The detail of the history of chemistry is certainly too some extent interesting, but it becomes far too in-depth and specific. Unless you have an explicit interest in chemistry then this may well become somewhat tedious and boring, as it did for me. I finished the book feeling that I had learnt nothing new and gained little. Although the ... read more.
Written by Oliver Sacks.
Published 23 August 2002.
Published by Picador.
rrp £8.99.
250 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 0330390287
ISBN-13: 9780330390286 | |
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