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The Answer To The Riddle Is Me: A Memoir Of Amnesia (2014)

by David Stuart MacLean(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0547519273 (ISBN13: 9780547519272)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: How can we possible repay the kindness of strangers? Do our memories define our identity? David Stuart MacLean’s memoir, The Answer to the Riddle Is Me, goes a long way to explore those questions. The life-altering event that MacLean shares with readers involves what happened following his adverse reaction to an anti-malarial drug called Lariam. Following a blackout in a Hyderabad train station, he awakens with no recollection of who or what he is. Thanks to a kindly train station agent and a police officer, he finds protection and care. He presents his search to figure out who he is with well-written prose and great insight into the formation of identity. Any reader interested in the mind, drug reactions or the ways in which we rely on others to become ourselves will fi... morend a lot to enjoy in this book.
review 2: I can't say I recommend this book. The extremely short chapters make it a quick, but choppy, read. It was interesting to learn more about malaria and Lariam. I believe the author never got his full memory back, though he got bits and pieces. He spends a lot of time telling us how he tricked everyone into thinking he was better, then he has a chapter at the end that is to reassure us that he is better, but is he better? I am not convinced. less

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