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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66723.Seeing_Voices?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Seeing Voices" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1170653916m/66723.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66723.Seeing_Voices?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Seeing Voices</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/8048488?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>Fascinating insights into the world of the deaf... you begin to appreciate the intricacies of sign language. I have learned it is truely a language; not just a pictorial pantomime of symbols, but a complex 3D movie of idiosyncratic edits, expressions, and points of view that is not bound or restricted emotionally in any way... it has equal access to as many expressions as spoken language... nay I have learned that sign can do more than spoken language. I have also learned that without language we are empty, restricted, uncreative, machine and animal like. It plays a vital role in the construction of identity, purpose, and facilitates growth. Language is so powerful it is essential to understanding ourselves as human. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/566878?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>