This is the first book by Oliver Sacks I ever read, and it took me just under six months to finish it. By some reason, the reading pattern was: after one or two chapters, I would take a break — the longest one was over a month. Some chapters seemed to drag on and on, but it got better closer to the end of the book (‘it’ being either the book or my attention). The penultimate chapter, A Hypermusical Species: Williams Syndrome, reads like a good science fiction story: the author visits a summer camp which well may have been on another planet...
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