Planet of the Blind

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: As a graduate student, who is being forced to look beyond the comfortable world of deaf to an unknown planet of blind, this was a book of frightening similarities. The road of denial, surreptious coping, and ultimate empowerment through acceptance are parallel on both planets.

A definite must read for baby boomers entering on the macular degeneration road to the Planet of the Blind!

Rating:
Summary: Vivid and moving memoir
Review: As a legally blind person, who had totally blind parents, this vividly written book went a long way in helping me come to terms with my own situation. Like Stephen, for years I was in denial about my own limited vision and tried, successfully for a time, to "pass" as fully sighted. This is no longer possible and I have to face my own limitations head on, as Stephen finally does.

I recommend this book to anyone who would like to understand what living on the "Planet of the Blind" is really like, and for anyone who enjoys beautiful writing.

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Summary: This is an amazing book- both content and writing
Review: As a professional who works and plays with people who are blind and deaf, I was curious to read this book. It is truly amazing from the perspective of writing that is at once powerful and lyrical, exquisitely beautiful and touching.

In addition the process that the author has gone through is at first tragic and then uplifting, not so much because he found his dog guide, but much more so because the author found himself as a blind man.

I grieve for his parents who could never say the word 'blind'. I have seen this so often. Mr. K's message is strong and clear. "coming out" is better and empowering and in his case enobling as well.

A beautifully written and powerful book.

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Summary: Very inspiring book EVEN inspires me to want to write
Review: I was reccommended to read Planet of The Blind due to my interest in writing stories about people who had disabilities and about by own disablility for I'm visually impaired myself and I have an interest in writing. So I read Steven Kuusisto's book Planet of the Blind and found it very facinating and inspiring! I highly reccomend it! I'd love to know what is he doing now and is he still writing and speaking of the book?