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Cargando... Losing My Mind : An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer'spor Thomas DeBaggio
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I was just getting in to audio books the first time I 'read' this. Listening to an audio book compared to reading print seems to me the difference between having a pizza base, a selection of toppings, plus cheese, sauce and herbs, and you put it together how you want and then bake it and eat it. All the components were given to you and there is a certain set order to placing them, but still two people wouldn't turn out with quite the same pizza. An audio book is like being handed a ready-made slice on a plate. However, I did like this book better than the first one I listened to, Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain. In part because Tom DeBaggio is a far superior writer to Proulx, who is one-dimensional by comparison. I don't think I would have got through this book in print. Because of the author's Alzheimer's of which this is a true chronicle, it was too repetitious, jumped around from his past to his present and worries for his future, included medical reports and all sorts of odd snippets, all of which worked in audio, but I personally would have found tedious to read. [a:Thomas DeBaggio|182519|Thomas DeBaggio|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-M-50x66-e07624dc012f2cce49c7d9aa6500c6c0.jpg]'s story is an interesting one, there is possibly a great film in there. Tom was the son of hard-working Italian immigrants. He was a devotee of Holden Caulfield's hobby of spotting fake people which tied in nicely with his job - a muck-raking journalist. Later he married an artist and the pair of the became real children of the 60s anti-Vietnam movement married to an artist before finally settling on being a commercial herb nurseryman and publishing several acclaimed books on herb farming. I read up on the author. He's written another book, [b:When It Gets Dark: An Enlightened Reflection on Life with Alzheimer's|6985321|When It Gets Dark An Enlightened Reflection on Life with Alzheimer's|Thomas DeBaggio|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1255623465s/6985321.jpg|2517814], I can't bear to read it. He died in 2011 after having spent the last few years in an institution where he deteriorated to not being able to speak, move his hands or even recognise his wife. Nothing but a shell left and if there were any human desires that still vibrated within the ever-frailer human shell, they remained locked inside - who was to know? A cruel and tortuous death. So sad. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In the bestselling tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie comes a stunning first-person account of a 57-year-old writer in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Abridged. 5 CDs. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It took him too. Like many spouses, my grandmother acted as an absolute saint, keeping him home as long as she could. It is quite possible, possibly probable, that the same hidden bomb lurks in my mother, her siblings, and me. None so far have had early onset, and for that we can all be grateful.
I loved this memoir. I liked how it moved in and out of the present and past, recursively. I truly felt like Tom was sharing his stream of consciousness with us.
I knew how it ended before I picked up the book, and loved it the same. ( )