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Title: Maybe the hardest kind of book to write
Review: I loved some of the science in Sack's book but the autobiographical part was embarrassing at points.It seemed to me that it's very hard to write this type of book with out sounding like you are bosting of your intelligence. One of the few book's that did pull it off for me, where an intelligent boy tells of his growing up, was Bryce Courtenay The Power of One. In chapter 21 Sacks tells of reading Eve Curie's biography of her mother and how it impressed him. He says "it was no dry recital of a life's achievements, but full of evocative, poignant images" I only wish this book could have been that way for me. I guess I wanted a book that got to my heart like 'Power of One'this book never came close.
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