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Rachel

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  • Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety | [Daniel Smith]
    Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety
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    Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

    • UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 15 mins)
    • By Daniel Smith
    • Narrated By Paul Michael Garcia
    • Whispersync for Voice-ready
    Overall
    (64)
    Performance
    (58)
    Story
    (57)

    In the insightful narrative tradition of Oliver Sacks, Monkey Mind is an uplifting, smart, and very funny memoir of life with anxiety - America’s most common psychological complaint. We all think we know what being anxious feels like - it is the instinct that made us run from wolves in the prehistoric age and pushes us to perform in the modern one - but for forty million American adults, anxiety is an insidious condition that defines daily life. Yet no popular memoir has been written about that experience - until now.

    Brian says: "Initially promising but ultimately disappointing"
    "Disappointing"
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    What disappointed you about Monkey Mind?

    I expected this book to be entertaining and educational and it was neither. I heard the NPR interview, and I can't understand why this book is getting so much attention. The personal story keeps returning to his sexual encounter with a lesbian, and bounces back and forth in time. There is no new information on anxiety that I can tell. I listened to the whole thing, and kept thinking, "Maybe I'm about to get to the good part." There wasn't one.


    3 of 4 people found this review helpful

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