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1 author picked A Journey Round My Skull as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I’d like to thank this humorist for making brain surgery fascinating and bizarrely funny.
I couldn’t put it down. I was fascinated with how incredibly dark and awful it was, and yet he made me laugh.
Normally, I could never read intense, graphic, bloody descriptions of early, risky, experimental brain surgery in the 1930s, when it was a frighteningly new technology. However, the author under the knife was one of the most sarcastic humorists of his time, so the resulting memoir is riveting, thrilling, shocking, horrifying, compelling, and weirdly humorous all the way along. I discovered there are no nerves…
From Eileen's list on The best memoirs with a gutsy, life-changing journey.
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