From the Bookshelf of Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
I love Oliver Sacks's case studies. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars are among my favorite books, ever. However, Musicophilia, a book about neurological conditions that affect a person's relationship with music, really doesn't fit into the same category as those two books.
My problem with Musicophilia is that it's much more abstracted than what I've come to expect from Sacks; it summarizes information about many people Sacks has worked with or heard about but ...more
My problem with Musicophilia is that it's much more abstracted than what I've come to expect from Sacks; it summarizes information about many people Sacks has worked with or heard about but ...more
The brain is so fascinating and some things in this book are really interesting, but it get tedious after awhile. I already read one of his books are strange brain/behavior phenomena and that was probably enough for me.
I enjoy anything by Oliver Sacks. His focus in this book is music and he presents anecdotal examples as evidence of his theories (many of which make me think "There but for the grace of God go I"). Great stuff!
...more
He is a genius and I want to marry his brain.
Nov 09, 2008
Dana Berglund
marked it as to-read
Dec 05, 2008
Eunice
marked it as to-read
Mar 15, 2009
CrystalIsReading on StoryGraph
marked it as to-read
May 09, 2010
Isabel
marked it as to-read
Apr 27, 2011
Bethany
marked it as to-read
Nov 12, 2012
Rich
marked it as to-read
Jun 22, 2014
Julianne Dunn
marked it as to-read
Oct 12, 2015
Lynne
marked it as to-read-music
Jan 02, 2016
Megan
marked it as to-read
Aug 10, 2016
Erin
marked it as to-read
Jun 03, 2018
Rachel Harlich
marked it as to-read
Jan 10, 2021
taeli
marked it as to-read
Jan 09, 2022
Heather
marked it as to-read
Aug 20, 2023
Christian
marked it as to-read
