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Sacks devotes this book to the way music interacts with the brain and the ways alterations to the ways the brain works can affe... Read More
Sacks retelling an extraordinary story of a man who was hit by lightening had a neardeath experience and became obsessed with t... Read More
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The book was published in 2007
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First line review what an odd thing it is to see an entire species billions of people playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call music
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Of all the case histories probably the most interesting was the story about the patients with aphasia would could only speak in a singing voice via song
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Well written engaging diverse people and topics definitely not the same kind of case over and over
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Im musically inclined even though i have no formal training
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The footnotes are extensive–almost as lengthy as the book itself–taking up half pages