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mollief's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
3.0
Rough Sleepers is a more interesting book about a Massachusetts doctor.
debbiemanning's review against another edition
4.0
Thank you Goodreads and author, Pam, for a wonderful read. I love Nantucket, and it was a real treat to read about people who make it their year round home. Dr. Tim is an amazing character. I think he should be cloned to replace most physicians practicing today! I hope to look him up on my next Nantucket adventure and bring him some roadkill.
aurodon's review against another edition
3.0
Amazing, honest, well-woven, occasionally heartbreaking and always intriguing.
liralen's review against another edition
3.0
I've read my fair share of medical memoir, but this is not medical memoir: it's a biography, or at least an extended profile, of a doctor written by a journalist.
Tim Lepore has been the resident surgeon on the island of Nantucket for decades. It's a somewhat isolating job, but it gives him the chance to play cowboy—to flout convention and go his own way. (The book argues that he's not a cowboy because he's very careful about safety and so on, but I'd argue that you can be a 'cowboy' while still being mindful of safety.) He's obsessed with guns and ticks and arcane history. He's generally beloved on Nantucket.
He sounds like a character...but it doesn't make for that interesting a book. It seems that this project started with an article, and though I think I would have enjoyed a long article, I ended up finding the book something of a slog. It's perfectly good writing (which decided me between two and three stars), but...I don't know. In some ways the book is presented as an investigation into an unusual community—isolated not only by distance but by ocean—but I think I would have preferred to read something where the focus was spread around more characters. Two hundred and seventy pages of peppery Lepore was at least a hundred pages beyond my interest.
Review written November 2015; revised September 2016 to correct a typo.
Tim Lepore has been the resident surgeon on the island of Nantucket for decades. It's a somewhat isolating job, but it gives him the chance to play cowboy—to flout convention and go his own way. (The book argues that he's not a cowboy because he's very careful about safety and so on, but I'd argue that you can be a 'cowboy' while still being mindful of safety.) He's obsessed with guns and ticks and arcane history. He's generally beloved on Nantucket.
He sounds like a character...but it doesn't make for that interesting a book. It seems that this project started with an article, and though I think I would have enjoyed a long article, I ended up finding the book something of a slog. It's perfectly good writing (which decided me between two and three stars), but...I don't know. In some ways the book is presented as an investigation into an unusual community—isolated not only by distance but by ocean—but I think I would have preferred to read something where the focus was spread around more characters. Two hundred and seventy pages of peppery Lepore was at least a hundred pages beyond my interest.
Review written November 2015; revised September 2016 to correct a typo.
noramjenkins's review against another edition
4.0
This was a great book about a fascinating doctor and his practice. It's a light fun read that is about the real people who live on Nantucket year round. After reading so much Elin Hildebrand, it's an interesting contrast.
jenniferbbookdragon's review against another edition
4.0
This doctor is weird, but is going all out for his patients-anyone who needs him regardless of ability to pay. I wish their were more like him!
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