Pre-Owned Man Who Forgot How to Read : A Memoir

from gypsysmom

At long last I have gotten around to reading this. As a bibliophile I can't imagine anything worse than not being able to read. But for someone who writes for a living, as Howard Engel does, it must be even worse. Even being told your alexia is sine agraphia (in other words inability to read with...

from debherter

Written not long after the stroke that afflicted Engel with the inability to read (while still having the ability to write, although without being able to read what he had written), this book is written (deliberately) with the flaws and memory slips you would expect as Engel tells his story. It w...

from Meggo

A very short book, written at a rather simple level. The astonishing thing, however, is that it is written at all. The author, a well-known mystery writer, suffered a stroke and lost the ability to read. This book is the story of his recovery, and his efforts to recover this ability, however limi...

from LynnB

This is a very interesting first-hand perspective of the results of a stroke that left Mr. Engel, a successful author, unable to read. He could, however, still write. The book provides more food for thought on the workings of the human brain, a subject that I'm very interested in. It is also a ve...