The Great Pretender

The author spends A LOT of time talking about herself and plugging her previous book (which is also about herself). If I cared about that stuff then I would have read that book, but I don't so I didn't. I resent having to wade through all the self promotion in order to learn about the experiment that is supposedly the topic of this book. At 60 pages in, with no mention of the book's topic in sight, I am giving up.

Way more interesting than I expected it to be.

“For every miracle like me, there are a hundred like my mirror image; a thousand rotting away in jails or abandoned on the streets for the sin of being mentally ill; a million told that it's all in their heads. As if our brains aren't inside those heads, as if that warrants dismissal, not further investigation. As if there could be any other response but humility in the face of the devastating enigma that is the brain.”