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Title: a book badly in need of a rewrite
Review: This text book sets out to be all things to all people, and ends up falling short on all counts. I tend to agree with the other reviews, but something more can be said for the style of the writing. Rains paces his material at a snails pace, and often his references are off. His style lacks the crisp humanness of other authors and he seems to be so engrossed in the material, that he has forgotten how to instill the text with passion and fun, the things that attracted me to the subject of neurology in the early days of my career, the so called "sense of wonder", is missing here. What we get are just the facts, and the author seems intent on showing everyone how much he knows. This leaves the reader overwhelmed and tired.Rains should have spent more time reworking his style, and injected it with verve and life. He, like one of his idols, William James, is often beyond the scope of human understanding.
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