Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's @ richardeward.com

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
from Crown

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Worth your money
  While reading Augustin Burroughs description of his brother's asperger's it hit me like a brick. When he was describing John Elder my loved one fell into every category he mentioned. John Elder has done an amazing job giving us a glimpse into his life. I found every emotion in this book. I laughed, I cried, and I came out knowing and feeling I understood alot more about Asperger's. This book flows very well and even though big is a very fast read.
  I think John Elder definately has a gift for writing... more info

• Highly Recommend This Book
  I highly recommend this book to anyone who has children or grandchildren or other family members or friends who have children with autistic issues; especially Asperger issues.

• wonderful --- must read
  I am recently married to a wonderful man with Asperger's as well as step mom to a pre teen boy with asperger's. This book gave me a whole new insight to them both... There were several chapters where I either thought to myself that he was writing about my husband or my son...

• not what I had hoped it would be
  I was disappointed in this book. Reading through the other reviews I was astonished at how many people thought it was "amazing" and "interesting". I thought it was full of boring anecdotes and I was appalled at how proud he was of his mean pranks. If the meanness is a result of the Asperger's syndrome it was not well explained, so I had a hard time accepting that the meanness was out of his control. It did appear to be poorly edited, with lots of inconsistencies. There were several places, usually at the... more info

Similar Products: