Review: Great
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 26, 2014
I was fairly amazed by the process. It worked. For me, the memory palace works best when it's a route that actually exists in my life -- the Shakespeare story the author tells takes place in suburbia. I live in Manhattan. I couldn't trigger my memory until I translated the story into an urban setting and then it worked so well.I feel the need to mention that the list of US presidents is wrong. He forgot James Polk and Zachary Taylor. Also, there are some Shakespeare plays missing -- Love's Labour Found and a few others. Although, every list of Shakespeare plays on the internet looks a little different from any other list, so maybe its just the list he choose. In any event,the technique is solid. I have the Shakespeare plays, Dickens plays memorized. I bought Remember Remember by Ed Cooke and now I can fill in a blank map of Europe! So cool.