Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks

I had trouble with "Musicophilia" on two levels, which surprised me because I was really excited to read this novel. While I found the text to be quite boring and repetitive in parts, I also succumbed to a crisis with music hypochondria. As someone who already fears the loss of hearing, I found it unnecessary for that fear to be amplified through the knowledge of all of the ways that I could also lose my sense of music, both physically and neurologically. To be fair I was only able to get just over half way done before I had to put it down and move onto something else; it is plausible that other's would disagree with me on this rating and really enjoy what Sacks has to say on this subject.

Rating: Burn It.