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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63697.The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_For_A_Hat_And_Other_Clinical_Tales?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170618771m/63697.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63697.The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_For_A_Hat_And_Other_Clinical_Tales?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/843200.Oliver_W_Sacks">Oliver W. Sacks</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15437190?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>Dear Dr. Sacks, <br/>On page 112 of the paperback edition of your book, the second paragraph begins with the following sentence: <br/>"And with this, no feeling <i>that</i> he has lost feeling (for the feeling he has lost), no feeling <i>that</i> he has lost the depth, that unfathomable, mysterious, myriad-levelled depth which somehow defines identity or reality." <br/>I've read this sentence at least twelve times, and I still don't even have the slightest inkling of what the hell it means. What is the subject? What is the verb? Why is the word "that" italicized (twice?)? Good God man, what are you trying to tell me? <br/>Sincerely, <br/>Baffled in Brooklyn <br/> <br/>Some people may think "well, if I read the whole chapter, I'm sure I could decipher the meaning." To those people I say: good luck, Charlie. I hope you may succeed where I have so miserably failed. <br/>This book has many fascinating studies of neurological disorders, and the stories behind the patients are easily understood and, in many cases, enthralling. However, Dr. Sacks seems to give his readers too much credit when he throws off "hyperagnosia", "Korsokovian", and "meningioma" like he assumes we had read an entire neurology textbook before picking this one up. Also, many of his sentences (like the example above) include so many digressions and sudden turns that each one could practically be its own M. Night Shaymalan film pitch. All of this might have to do with the fact that it was written in the eighties, when I presume people were smarter. <br/> <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/604493?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>