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One of the things that always surprises me a little with regards to women, is that when they are single, they actually tend to set their sights kind of low when it comes to the men that they want to date. Now, I know, you cannot support who you are attracted to, but there are a lot of single women out there that WANT to meet the right guy, and don’t in truth recognise how to go in regards to doing that. Women, you kind of have the upper hand most of the time when it comes to dating. Most men are desperately waiting for a woman to come into their life. You just have to recognise how to spot a man that is looking for a woman like you, and what to do to kind of “woo” him the right way. Have you ever noticed how some women seem to be capable to attract a lot of great looking, fun to be around guys? Well, what do you think makes the divergence there? They know how to woo a man and make him get that sentiment of in truth wanting to be around them all of the time. They likewise tend to set their sights a little higher, because they KNOW that they may attract that kind of guy. Well, so may you! If you don’t set your standards a little higher, it is going to show. Men are going to see this, and the higher quality guys are going to be put off by this. And you will end up attracting the guys that never grew up, the ones that still live in their parent’s house, and the ones that just want to play games. Set your standards higher, and learn how to attract men the right way, and you will never have a shortage of men that you may choose from! ReviewMan is en route to a restaurant with his new bride. Man’s car gets T-boned by a hit and run driver. Wife dies but man survives, though he suffers spacious brain trauma. Man, after ten-plus years of grueling therapy and multiple surgeries, miraculously regains the same IQ he had prior to the accident. This reads like a storyboard treatment for a film that Simon Lewis might have produced. The story is Lewis’s own, however. Prior to the wreck that left him without a third of the right hemisphere of his brain, Lewis was a valued fellow member of the Hollywood establishment, even even though his roster principally included B-movies (C.H.U.D. 2 anyone?), and a film that was in the first place slated to go straight to video, but Lewis wisely championed, Look Who’s Talking. Handily beating Field of Dreams and Born of the 4th of July at the box office, it made then has-been John Travolta a household name again, ensuring that his Scientology dues would be salaried on time. Despite it is cinematic qualities, which author Chris Colin dutifully points out in this captivating Kindle Single with regards to Lewis’s recovery, this actually is an anti-Hollywood story. Life is messy; it doesn’t always have an ending you may tie up with a neat little bow. And, as much as you’ll marvel at the enduring (and endearing) spirit of Simon Lewis, Blindsight will have you evenly marveling at the extraordinariness–the almost “science fiction-like” capabilities–of the humane brain. –Erin KodicekFrom AudioFile Singles Sights Photo Singles Sights Image

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17 of 18 persons found the following review helpful.
A hero’s story of endurance and resilience
By Rett01
Blindsight is a rarity, a most ofttimes trauma-induced medical condition in which a person without sight may “see” through the blindness without consciously registering images. A person with blindsight will navigate around a rubbish may without ever visualizing the obstacle. Blindsight is seeing without seeing, the brain doing a workaround.

Simon Lewis invented blindsight after being crushed body and soul in a horrid 1994 car wreck that killed his wife of five months, left Lewis in a four-month coma and became the get started of a decade-long creep back toward daylight.

Storyboard, Panel 1 of 5: Lewis is a Hollywood kid who loves the movies and starts by shooting a high schooler, backyard version of “Macbeth.” Some time later a string of growingly more main-stream B-movies follow. At the top of that heap is “C.H.U.D.2.” Then the young producer latches onto a hokey script and hustles to sign 70s has-been John Travolta. The movie is in regards to a tough talking baby who telegraphs his thoughts to the audience and bam, “Look Who’s Talking” is the smash hit of 1989, beating each other hit of the year including “When Harry Met Sally” and “The Little Mermaid.” At regarding the same time, he meets Marcy and records another triumph when she, “talkative and vivacious,” agrees to marry him, “pale and bookish.”

Storyboard, Panel 2: March 2, 1994. If he would have paused outside the imagination Italian restaurant they both loved to tie his shoelace before getting into their brand new Infiniti he would have driven through the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and McCadden Place a couple seconds later and missed being T-boned by that white 1978 van running the stop sign full-throttle at 75 miles per hour. In a home nearby a couple eating dinner thought a bomb had gone off. They ducked underneath their dinner table.

Storyboard, Panel 3: The paramedics firstborn on the scene report no survivors in the Infiniti. Witnesses say they saw a young man climb out of the van and sprint up McCadden, never to be identified. It takes over an hour to splay the Infinity open. Rescuers are shocked to discover Lewis has a pulse. Every second that passes, more blood leaks internally filling each available space underneath his skin. More brain cells die. By the time Lewis is admitted to Cedars-Sinai his body has swollen to twice it is normal size. Four months later, one day in April, Lewis’ eyes open.

Storyboard, Panel 4: The road back is a long one. More than ten years. Lewis had lost everything. Then with struggle, gained much back. His legs are fitted with a NESS L300, a neuroprosthesis that sends impulses to nerves to support him walk. He’s now a middle-aged man in his 50s. “A little advice,” somebody says to Lewis, “Find love again.” In 2010 he writes a book “Rise and Shine” an exceedingly elaborated chronicle of his ordeal. Life moves on.

Storyboard, Panel 5: Lewis’ story doesn’t have an ending, happy or sad, that packs everything up in a little square box with a cover. The ending is equivocal and undetermined, the way life works. Lewis makes contact again with the film community. He works on a script from long ago and like the rest of us Lewis proceeds on, “living the non-movie version of his own life.”

The Pitch: The summary doesn’t begin to size up the story which is closely science fiction in it is treatment of how the brain functions in reaction to terrible trauma and works to heal itself. The story is inspirational. How do you go in regards to remaking a life? There’s an otherworldly quality to Lewis’s rehabilitation that blurs reality and sensing and reshapes what we mean by consciousness and cognition. To me, “Blindsight” is a hero’s story of endurance and resilience.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
A arousing and attention holding tale you’d think was fiction.
By Karol Gajda
My reviews of stories published by The Atavist are going to get very redundant. They are brilliant at finding the perfective writer to tell the perfective story.

As for BlindSight: It captivated me from the beginning. Successful Hollywood producer gets in an accident, loses his wife, goes into a coma, then spends 15 years relearning the world? It’s almost unbelievable in it is reality.

If you’re a fan of movies like Memento you’ll take pleasure in this. If you’re a fan of solid non-fiction story telling you will receive pleasure from this. If you’re a fan of humane triumph that doesn’t inevitably have a established happy Hollywood ending, you will take delight in this.

3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
A beautiful, riveting story
By Rob B.
Chris Colin tells the fascinating, poignant story of Simon Lewis with quick and pretty prose. You must read this now.

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