Bob R. (fastreader) -
Helpful Score: 2
Well written account of the daring life of Mike Mays, blinded at three years of age and the challenges he faced when offered the opportunity to see again forty years later. Not your usual biography. Reads like a novel.
Also read Shadow Divers by the same author.
Also read Shadow Divers by the same author.
Helpful Score: 1
This book was absolutely awesome and amazing! This man has had more adventures blind than most of my seeing friends put together! And then there is the amazing journey of moving back in to the world of sight! Hard to put down. 5 stars!!!
Helpful Score: 1
This is a fascinating book about a most unusual, and successful even while still blind, man. The part I enjoyed most and felt I learned a lot from was how he adjusted to regaining his sight.
Seeing, for him, constantly involved mental work to figure out what each image was. Many blind from infancy or birth people who regained their sight have regretted it--found this constant awareness and effort too much to deal with. But in the case of this man, when the situation seemed not to be improving, he found a way of his own around it.
Although written a bit formulaically, as these "reportage" type stories about the exciting experiences of others often are, it is really an interesting book and, as I have indicated, the best parts are about how he adjusted to seeing. Not good literature, by any means, but certainly worth reading.
Seeing, for him, constantly involved mental work to figure out what each image was. Many blind from infancy or birth people who regained their sight have regretted it--found this constant awareness and effort too much to deal with. But in the case of this man, when the situation seemed not to be improving, he found a way of his own around it.
Although written a bit formulaically, as these "reportage" type stories about the exciting experiences of others often are, it is really an interesting book and, as I have indicated, the best parts are about how he adjusted to seeing. Not good literature, by any means, but certainly worth reading.
