Eoin's review
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
by Oliver W. Sacks
Eoin's review
Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver W. Sacks
Eoin's review
rating:
bookshelves:
nonfiction
recommended for: people with language or minds
Not done yet, so this is a temp. The subject is facinating (to me) and important (to everyone) and Sacks has that greatly excited tone of his that makes you think, probably rightly, that everything about the human mind is so *facinating*. The difficulty with this book is formating. In the edition I'm reading, there are footnotes (I love me the foot-notes, don't get it twisted) that take up as much as half the page, often running into the feet of subsequent pages. So lots of tangents and flipping back and forth that could have been prevented with a larger page and smaller foot-note font. Otherwise a great introduction to deaf topics with plenty of references to other works for follow up (though I'm sure the last 19 years have produced much in the way of deaf and sign books).
