Some people are born great, while others just thrust it upon themselves
As in baseball, a reviewer must “call it as he sees it”. My call is that this book is pretty awful. However, reviewers sometimes nod off, missing qualities in a book with cover plaudits by Kurt Vonnegut, V.S. Ramachandran, Floyd Bloom, James Watson and Howard Gardner. If I am wrong and Gardner is right about “a clear, readable synoptic account of current knowledge in human creativity”, then here are some maxims for emulating Nancy Andreasen’s way of communicating science…
So begins Chris McManus‘s review [click here to read the entire review] of the book The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius, by Nancy Andreason. The review appears in the March 26, 2006 issue of the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Dr. Andreason is a prominent, much-decorated figure in her many fields of endeavor, which are highlighted by schizophrenia and impotence.