Book: Born on a Blue Day

 Book: Born On A Blue Day

Author: Daniel Tammet

Pages: 258

This is my 49th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Daniel Tammet is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life and able to explain what is happening inside his head.  He sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head.  He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week.  In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record.  HE has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him the most unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man.  This book explores what it's like to be special and gives us an insight into what makes us all human - our minds.

This book was okay. It has been on my shelf forever - I inherited it from a friend's book haul years ago.  I liked a lot of parts of it - when Daniel really delve into his life story.  But a large part of this book is just factual information which distracted from the overall picture you try to form of what it is like for people like Daniel.  It was like he was trying to tell two different stories and it just didn't flow well.  

Stars: 3