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Review title: Sacks is his own worst subject
Product review: Dr Sacks' books are generally brilliant looks at this neurologist's patients and their ailments. Individual cases are presented clearly and succinctly and understandably for the layman. When he writes about himself, at least in this instance, he loses his way. I read somewhere that for this book Dr Sacks submitted well over 200,000 words to the publisher and a cadre of editors pared away two thirds of the content. What remains is tedious. With an enormously dramatic event (Dr Sacks attacked and mauled by a bull on a remote mountainside) and neurological complications as intriguing as any others he has written about, you would expect a riveting volume. Not at all. Use this book as a sleep aid or ignore it - even as you delight in his books about his patients.
