This book was overall, very interesting. I enjoyed the examples of cases and the process involved in figuring them out. I liked that the phsycological issues presented were treated as just as critical as a physical injury. Too often, there is a stigma attached to these issues. I've witnessed those stigmas both in and directed at people I know. I also found it a great insight that many physcological problems may be related to a physical illness like hypoglycemia or alzheimers. I would recommend this book to others.
Now, I did subtract one start for the actual writing of the book. I assume the writer is not a profecssional writer, so I was not as harsh as I would have been if that was the case. That being said, the writing on the book itself was not very good. The jokes, the descritpions, the story telling in general, read pretty flat to me, very clinche in places, especially some of the jokes. I also found myself reacting negatively to the narrator himself, because the way the stories were writte, well, I found it made him sound pretty conceited. Conceited in a "look what I figured out, look I'm now in this bigger, better office, look I'm now in this even bigger and better office, and look at how I showed up all those doctors who talked down to me, look at all these respected, brilliant, confused people who come to me for advice . . ." I suspect it was just the way things were written that made me feel that way. I don't think it was intentional, but it was very distracting.
Despite my issues with the writing style, it was not enough to make me stop reading, and I had a positive feeling when I finished. It was a satisfying read.
However, I do not feel it was worth the $13 I paid. I bought based on a pretty interesting sample, and went back and forth over buying. I took a risk, and if I had been able to read a bigger sample, I would have waited for it to drop in price.
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