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cloudfarmer's review
2.25
Some interesting points but the author is unbearably dismissive of modern sleep scientists
icallaci's review against another edition
3.0
What an odd little book! Starts out well, but then gets into weird, sexual, mother-related Freudian theories about the origins of modern sleep problems.
hcdelamusique's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Really challenged the way that society views sleep
lintulai's review against another edition
2.0
Can't say I enjoyed reading this book, as this goes to the category of "it's important to read things you don't agree with". I would've hoped that the author would have positioned himself clearly from the beginning as a Freudian psychoanalytic and established where he stands; now I as a reader had to debunk things as I turned pages. It became clear that this book is written as a kinda-sorta-answer to Matthew Walker's excellent Why we sleep, but Leader's book is highly un-scientific, full of basic argumentative errors and far fetched (but of course in the Freudian framework probably spot on) interpretations of folk tales and movies.
elliecaholic's review against another edition
4.0
Loved the more philosophical approach to the history of sleep and why/how we sleep.
raehink's review
3.0
Biphasic sleeping. Blue lights of technology. Anxiety. Medications. Work. Short but jam-packed.
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