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Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - Kaylee Beauprez - Goodreads

I thought this book had great insight about what it is like to get a cochlear implant. the first three chapters were great, but he put too much emphasis on how a CI made him more like a cyborg... too it overboard Read full review

Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - Goodreads

Fascinating. A science memoir that's equally philosophy.

Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - Goodreads

Perfect combo of science and memoir for me. Just picked it off of a library-used sale shelf while on vacation for a dollar because I ran out of books, so it was hit or miss, but it definitely turned out hit.

Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - Goodreads

This book changed my life. After reading it, I took up American Sign Language and started volunteering at the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children. The students and staff there have inspired me profoundly.

Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - Jon Hurd - Goodreads

A very enjoyable read, and the best description of how the ear works that I have ever read. Read full review

Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - Jill - Goodreads

Chorost's insights into the world of the hard of hearing through his research into cochlear implants and his own experience are thorough, and for the most part, engaging. While in parts his narrative ... Read full review

Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - CochlearImplant Help - Goodreads

I read this book in four hours. Each page a delight and wonder as Michael Chorost takes us into his 'realm of change'. A young insecure hearing impaired man who loses his remaining hearing within ... Read full review

Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - Emily - Goodreads

Interesting. This is an memoir written by a guy who was congenitally hard of hearing, who abruptly lost the rest of his hearing as an adult, and subsequently got a cochlear implant. He chronicles his ... Read full review

Review: Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human

User Review - Goodreads

This book is one of the best memoirs I've ever read. Someone close to me has a hearing loss that has been remedied by an ossicular implant. This is an implant of the middle ear, quite different from ...