tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post4185693188726630336..comments2023-10-19T10:26:30.108-04:00Comments on Yin and Yang: Darkness VisibleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-26571894763362769642007-11-16T13:27:00.000-05:002007-11-16T13:27:00.000-05:00Kate,Oddly enough, I read Darkness, Visible while ...Kate,<BR/><BR/>Oddly enough, I read Darkness, Visible while in the hospital just this past September/October. A nurse left it for me, and since I'd been put on Zyprexa and was thus able to read, I did so. I have to admit was thoroughly unimpressed then -- what darkness was made visible??? I did not feel his pain, did not learn anything new about depression, his or anyone else's, found the book to be dry and boring if nothing else, and so did the nurse. And now? Now I no longer recall anything about the book, except that 1) he bemoaned the fact that he could no longer use alcohol to stimulate him, could no longer drink at all 2) drugs did not help him, only the hospital, though I believe the reader is not given any clear picture as to why this was so...All in all a very unsatisfying book and not one I recommend to anyone who wants to understand depression from the inside out. I believe there is a book by a Martha Manning (?), title forgotten, that is much better...But memory serves poorly today so I might be wrong both on author name and on whether it is any good.<BR/><BR/>Pam WAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com