Today, it's Publisher's Weekly.
Yesterday Look Me in the Eye appeared in Kirkus Reviews. Today it's in my copy of Publisher's Weekly. Both magazines should be available from well-stocked magazine stands and they're also available by subscription online. Here's what PW said:
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s John Elder Robison, foreword by Augusten Burroughs. Crown, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-39598-6
Robison’s thoughtful and thoroughly memorable account of living with Asperger’s syndrome is assured of media attention (and sales) due in part to his brother Augusten Burroughs’s brief but fascinating description of Robison in Running with Scissors. But Robison’s story is much more fully detailed in this moving memoir, beginning with his painful childhood, his abusive alcoholic father and his mentally disturbed mother. Robison describes how from nursery school on he could not communicate effectively with others, something his brain “is not wired to do,” since kids with Asperger’s don’t recognize “common social cues” and “body language or facial expressions.” Failing in junior high, Robison was encouraged by some audiovisual teachers to fix their broken equipment, and he discovered a more comfortable world of machines and circuits, “of muted colors, soft light, and mechanical perfection.” This led to jobs (and many hilarious events) in worlds where strange behavior is seen as normal: developing intricate rocket-shooting guitars for the rock band Kiss and computerized toys for the Milton Bradley company. Finally, at age 40, while Robison was running a successful business repairing high-end cars, a therapist correctly diagnosed him as having Asperger’s. In the end, Robison succeeds in his goal of “helping those who are struggling to grow up or live with Asperger’s” to see how it “is not a disease” but “a way of being” that needs no cure except understanding and encouragement from others. (Sept.)
The above review is (c) 2007 Publishers Weekly
They even gave me a star for writing an exceptional book. It's quite remarkable, the favorable attention this book is garnering.
Tomorrow I am off to the recording studio to read the abridged version of Look Me in the Eye, which will be sitting on bookstore shelves alongside the print book in just a few short months.
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s John Elder Robison, foreword by Augusten Burroughs. Crown, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-39598-6
Robison’s thoughtful and thoroughly memorable account of living with Asperger’s syndrome is assured of media attention (and sales) due in part to his brother Augusten Burroughs’s brief but fascinating description of Robison in Running with Scissors. But Robison’s story is much more fully detailed in this moving memoir, beginning with his painful childhood, his abusive alcoholic father and his mentally disturbed mother. Robison describes how from nursery school on he could not communicate effectively with others, something his brain “is not wired to do,” since kids with Asperger’s don’t recognize “common social cues” and “body language or facial expressions.” Failing in junior high, Robison was encouraged by some audiovisual teachers to fix their broken equipment, and he discovered a more comfortable world of machines and circuits, “of muted colors, soft light, and mechanical perfection.” This led to jobs (and many hilarious events) in worlds where strange behavior is seen as normal: developing intricate rocket-shooting guitars for the rock band Kiss and computerized toys for the Milton Bradley company. Finally, at age 40, while Robison was running a successful business repairing high-end cars, a therapist correctly diagnosed him as having Asperger’s. In the end, Robison succeeds in his goal of “helping those who are struggling to grow up or live with Asperger’s” to see how it “is not a disease” but “a way of being” that needs no cure except understanding and encouragement from others. (Sept.)
The above review is (c) 2007 Publishers Weekly
They even gave me a star for writing an exceptional book. It's quite remarkable, the favorable attention this book is garnering.
Tomorrow I am off to the recording studio to read the abridged version of Look Me in the Eye, which will be sitting on bookstore shelves alongside the print book in just a few short months.
Comments
I'll let you know how it turns out.
Have fun creating the audio version
Cheers
So, who is going to do the first AB/JR joint interview?
Old actor's trick.
Break a Leg. You freaking rock.
Sigh.
:)
Congrats on another great review.