The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat

Title: The man who mistook his wife for a hat
Author: Oliver Sacks
Genre: Non-Fiction, Psychology

Book description (From goodreads): In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with fantastic perceptual and intellectual aberrations: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; who are stricken with violent tics and grimaces or who shout involuntary obscenities; whose limbs have become alien; who have been dismissed as retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents.
If inconceivably strange, these brilliant tales remain, in Dr. Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, deeply human. They are studies of life struggling against incredible adversity, and they enable us to enter the world of the neurologically impaired, to imagine with our hearts what it must be to live and feel as they do. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine's ultimate responsibility: "the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject."

My thoughts on it: 
This is a book that I picked up while trying diversify my rreading habits. It is never a bad idea to move out of your confort zone. I received this book via pdforigins. In case you don't know what it is, it's a webpage where you can subscribe and receive pdf books for free. Yes you don't get only the types of books you're interested on but it is an awesome website. I always get lost while on it but I usually download the book they send to my email and read that one. 

You can definately check it out if you wish: http://www.pdforigin.org/

Anyhow this book is interesting and I mean not like reading Raven Boys Cycle or anything but it shows very unique afflictions people's mind could suffer. It has a relatively easy to understand narrative; it does include some medical terminology which can get a bit tricky, especially for people like myself that have no medical background but it is still a very interesting book to pick up. Though it is best if you read two or three cases at most per seating in order to not get overwhelmed by the concepts used and such. It is a kind of difficult book to understand and it is enjoyed better in small quantities. 
It will definately be a slower read than normal but that's ok.
Also if English is your second language or if you still don't have too much practice in the language it's better to not pick it up, or look for it in your native tongue. It will go better like that. 

I gave it a 3 out of 5 stars.
I is a good book, interesting theme, just not my thing really. I definately will try to keep reading Non-fiction books and maybe some more medical