The Mind's Eye Audiobook

" A compelling insight into Sacks's neurology caseload as it deals with the visual limitations or visual disassociatve disorders of several of his patients and his own eye cancer that eliminates his ability to see depth. Some of the essays have been published in the New Yorker, I think, for I have read them before. If you liked his The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat," you'll enjoy this one. "

" Fascinating case studies, including one involving Sacks himself, regarding vision, perception and the brain. Sacks' own personal diary of the loss of one of his eyes is both fascinating and heartbreaking and clearly the most intense section of the book. My personal favorite section explores stereo vision and how an incredibly large percentage of the population probably doesn't have it and, even stranger, doesn't realize that they don't have it. Sacks can occasionally be a little dry and clinical but his subjects are so bizarre and fascinating that hyperbolic language would probably only get in the way. "

" I love this guy! Shows how a lot of what you think you see maybe just between your ears... "

" I love Oliver Sacks. This book is all about vision - not what happens in the eye, but rather in the brain. In one essay he talks about his own experience with prosopagnosia - inability to recognize faces. In another he writes about having a kind of cancer that destroyed his central vision and stereoscopic vision. My favorite chapter was the last, on blindness and some of the ways people have adapted to that condition by either intensifying their mental imagery or giving it up altogether. Fascinating read if you're interested in the brain. "

" I usually love Oliver Sacks's work, but this book was lacking in interesting material. Like part 2 of "The Island of the Colorblind," - "Cycads" - much of this book's content focuses on things that Sacks finds interesting, but few of his readers are likely to agree. Two of the chapters were devoted to stereo vision (seeing in 3 dimensions, only possible with both eyes), which really isn't crucial enough to daily living to warrant biographies of those who have lost it. "

" The book consists of case studies of people with neurological conditions related to sight, including the author's own cancer. "

" I loved the last three books I read by Oliver Sacks but this one just didn't do it for me. There was way too much science and the human element was too small for me. I might read his next one and I might one - this one just felt lackluster. "

" By reading about people with imperfect sight you get more insight about the functioning of the brain. Olivier Sacks describes his patients in a detailed and gripping fashion. A good read. "

" The case histories were not that interesting, the phenomena were not that exciting and the writing was pretty dry. I can't help but think his other book is probably better, though I have not read it. This seems like a sequel that just didn't have enough oomph. "

" Not as interesting as other works, lot of focus on visualization and compensation/neural adjustment when someone becomes blind due to Sacks' eyeball melanoma. Pass. "

" I thought this was actually kind of boring and i usually enjoy his books... "

" The latest from Oliver Sacks... Insights (pun intended) into the brain's vision functions. "

" Oliver Sacks' prose helps making this book amenable, otherwise it would be a little tedious, focused as it is on a relatively narrow range of sight pathologies. "

" Similar format as the man who mistook his wife. Great stories on cognition and perception and the personal triumphs of those who have had these drastically altered. "

" A little less narrative and more science in this one relative to his other books-but very good as usual. "

" Sacks possess the uncanny ability to present compelling case reports as enthralling human beings. "

" A bit hard to read at times and lacking a thread through the chapters, but a personal and touching book that explores the neurology of vision and the personal impact of disorders to vision. "

" Usually I enjoy reading about medical cases very much.However this book was a bit too slow and too technical for my taste.I am leaving the book half way through. "

" It's a great book until you get to the second half. While Oliver Sacks' own personal deficits are very interesting, I think it'd be better suited for a separate book. "

" First 80% is brilliant - last 20% is a bit lame. "

" I thought the stories about people in this book very vividly illustrated Oliver Sacks conceptualizations about how the mind responds to what the eye sees. "

" Lang geleden dat ik nog eens een Sacks las. Hersenen en hun kronkels interesseren mij enorm, dus zo'n portie populair wetenschappelijke non-fiction tussendoor mocht wel weer eens. Moeilijk sterren aan te geven, aan 'zoiets'. "

" I thought Sacks's case studies were really interesting, and it was fascinating to learn about some of the nuances of the way brains function. But the book bogged down for me when it got to Sacks's personal experience. "

" Oliver Sack's patients have a variety of nerological issues that make their lives challenging. Each chapter depicts a case, including Sack's own problem of not being able to remember faces. (from the recent New Yorker article) "

" This felt just a little ordinary to me, despite the odd symptoms of the patients he profiles, except for his own experience with a melanoma on his retina. That was wrenching and astonishing. "

" Oliver Sacks, a Neurologist, again introduces us to people with damage to their brains and how they compensated for the loss. Sacks himself suffered melanoma of the eye and lost vision in one eye and hence, stereoscopic vision. His descriptions are entertaining and detailed "