Reviews for Livewired

Outstanding popular science. – Kirkus (Starred Review)

“The pages of LIVEWIRED are chock-full of mind bending ideas and dazzling insights. Eagleman’s infectious enthusiasm, his use of fascinating anecdotes, and his clear, effortless prose render the secrets of the brain’s adaptability into a truly compelling page-turner.” –Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner

“[D]elivers an intellectually exhilarating look at neuroplasticity…. Eagleman’s skill as teacher, bold vision, and command of current research will make this superb work a curious reader’s delight.” – Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Eagleman brings the subject to life in a way I haven’t seen other writers achieve before.” – New Scientist

“Since the passing of Isaac Asimov, we haven’t had a working scientist like Dr. Eagleman, who engages his ideas in such a variety of modes. “Livewired” reads wonderfully, like what a book would be if it were written by Oliver Sacks and William Gibson, sitting on Carl Sagan’s front lawn.” – Wall Street Journal

“Gets the science right and makes it accessible… completely upending our basic sense of what the brain is in the process…. Exciting.” – Harvard Business Review

“A vital addition to the pop-neuroscience canon.” – Undark Magazine

“Fascinating work… recommended for readers interested in neuroscience, technology, and the intersection of the two.” –Library Journal (starred review)

“David Eagleman, the Jolly Sherlock Holmes of neuroscience, makes me believe that the universe of possibility required to create utopia is already housed in each of our brains. His knowledge and enthusiasm are intoxicating. His book demonstrates the principle about which he is writing; my mind has been changed by his words.” – Russell Brand

“Livewired is terrific. If you have a mind, David Eagleman will boggle it for you.” – Hugh Laurie

“Brain-bending, original and beautifully explained neuroscience from the brilliant David Eagleman. Learn about your mind and then have it blown…” – Isaac Hempstead Wright, actor, Game of Thrones

“David’s a brilliant writer and thinker, and he knows more about how we tick and why we tick than anyone I know.” – Neil Gaiman, author

“I read David Eagleman’s magnificent new book about a month ago, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. Eagleman has (once again) permanently altered the way I experience my brain’s complex and creative dance with the outside world.” – Annaka Harris, author of Conscious

“An altogether fascinating tour of the astonishing plasticity and interconnectedness inside the cranial cradle of all of our experience of reality, animated by Eagleman’s erudite enthusiasm for his subject, aglow with the ecstasy of sensemaking that comes when the seemingly unconnected snaps into a consummate totality of understanding.”– Maria Popova, Brain Pickings