I picked this book up from a library book sale thinking it would be interesting to read. The blurb on the inside cover certainly made me think it was going to be like an episode of House. It was not.

The Diagnosis started out with Bill spontaneously losing his memory, going insane, and later on spontaneously recovering his memory. After that it just slid downhill for me.

A majority of the book dealt with how Bill, Bill's family, and Bill's colleagues reacted to his illness. Unfortunately, the way it is written is incredibly boring so that not a lot of the characters really stood out.

I have no idea what the little side story of the death of Socrates had to do with anything in this book. It was almost like these sections of the book were supposed to be a parable, but it never seemed to connect back to Bill other than people reading it to him at the end.

All in all, there were parts of this book I think were O.K. There were far more parts of this book that required me to take a month or so to get the will power to actually finish it.