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Title: Touching the Rock : An Experience of Blindness by John M. Hull ISBN: 0-679-73547-X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 02 June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Moving memoir
Comment: Heard the taped version of TOUCHING THE ROCK by John
Hull, a moving memoir of a university lecturer who slowly
lost his vision over a period of several years . . . he recorded
his thoughts in a diary, and I must admit to being touched
about how both he and his family dealt with his
condition . . . even typing this brings teary thoughts to
mind . . . imagine having seen a child as a youngster,
then not being able to see her again as she grows up . . . or
never having seen another child from the time he was
born . . . it makes me want to hug my daughter, Risa . . . and
to appreciate all that I do have!
Rating: 5
Summary: A stunning picture of what it is like to become blind
Comment: This book was given to me as a gift a few years ago, and while I am neither going blind nor am actually blind, I found many of the ideas and experiences and thoughts and feelings expressed in this book to be very similar to my own. I have some particular cognitive difficulties (prosopagnosia, often called "face blindness") which give me a rather different outlook on life from most people, and I was amazed to see just how much in common my outlook on life was when compared with the author's life experiences. Well, maybe I wasn't that surprized, but it was still an eye-opening (no pun intended) experience for me to read this book in that context.
Needless to say, I enjoyed this book very very much. It reads more like a personal journal or diary than an actual book, and that gives the whole book a very personal experience when reading it.
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Title: The Crucible of Consciousness by Zoltan Torey, Torey Zoltan ISBN: 0195508726 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance by Jacques Lusseyran, Elizabeth R. Cameron ISBN: 0930407407 Publisher: Parabola Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My Path Leads to Tibet: The Inspiring Story of How One Young Blind Woman Brought Hope to the Blind Children of Tibet by Sabriye Tenberken ISBN: 1559706589 Publisher: Arcade Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: On Sight and Insight by John M. Hull ISBN: 1851681418 Publisher: Oneworld Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Planet of the Blind by Stephen Kuusisto ISBN: 0385333277 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 29 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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