Bas Brouwer Brouwer itibaren Nazornoye, Ivanovskaya oblast', Rusya, 155060
you know the period that anne frank came from so it will be sad. It is somewhat intresting but bored me in the beggining
3 out of 5 stars is rounding up. Sacks is a talented and insightful writer, and much of the contents of this book are fascinating, but it's also very repetitive, going over material from Sacks' earlier books, and even from earlier chapters, as if this were a collection of independent articles, which it might well have been. I would happily read Sacks again, but by the end this book became a slog. It's really just an endless string of anecdotes, many of them only tangentially related to music.
I liked the previous book by this author... HOT. That was a hot book. She's definatly a good writer, but this story line seemed meandering. I'll prolly buy her next book just to see what's up.
Stopped reading 89 pages in. (1956 edition, william heinemann ltd) Just didn't hook me, and the pointless she's-not-feminine-therefore-she-is-creepy treatment of the hotel manageress was no help.