" Kim’s face is not familiar, but the rapid monotone that delivers this helter-skelter information is instantly recognisable as the style of his famous fictional alter ego, Rain Man. Kim Peek is the real-life autistic savant who inspired Dustin Hoffman’s eponymous character in one of Hollywood’s most memorable films. Peek, 53, is more sociable, more complex and many times more prodigious than the movie character: in subjects from music to history to total recall of the works of Shakespeare."

- TIMES ONLINE