Michael F. (studbiscuitdaddy) reviewed on 6/1/2011 + 3 more book reviews

I was planning on reading this after seeing it mentioned in 2011's "Moonwalking with Einstein - The Art and Science of Remembering Everything" by journalist Joshua Foer. However, during the course of Joshua's conversations and non-scientific reviews of Mr. Tammet's reputed extraordinary talents, he was semi-exposed to be, most likely, a highly-practiced mnemonist. The whole 'seeing-numbers-as-colors-and-shapes' claim didn't seem to pan out, as the same 4-digit number was described in 3 completely different fashions over the course of 3 interviews in a year's span. What's even more interesting is that Kim Peek, the inspiration for "Rain Man", was also revealed to have similar ultra-high-level mnemonic abilities, casting much doubt on their 'savant' nomenclature.

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