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sylvieoldeman's review against another edition
5.0
Wow. Just wow.
“Words have longevity that I do not.”
“You can never reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
from the epilogue: “Frail but never weak…. What happened to Paul was tragic, but he was not a tragedy.”
“Words have longevity that I do not.”
“You can never reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
from the epilogue: “Frail but never weak…. What happened to Paul was tragic, but he was not a tragedy.”
johanique's review against another edition
4.0
I don’t see how I can rate non fiction books. 4/5 cause I’ll reread it but I don’t think about it all the time I guess
deargwen's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
bdbarnalidas's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
esmithh's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
4.25
Poor paul.
juliabragg's review against another edition
4.0
reread and bumped this up to a 4. a whole lot more topical now, than it was a year and a half ago.
sandiet's review against another edition
1.0
First I will say that i know it's bad to speak ill of the dead but....
This book had been on my radar for awhile and I finally bumped it up because it was going to be my local library's bookclub read. (turns out their timing didn't match mine but I read the book nevertheless).
I, unlike many others did not enjoy this book at all. I did not like Paul Kalanithi. To me (and this is my opinion to which we are all entitled) he came off as pompous, egotistical and self important. If this book had been written more about how he and his family chose to deal with his terminal cancer it could have been much better. Instead he spent the first part of this book writing about all the years he spent studying to become a neurosurgeon and now he'd never get to fully realize his potential and what a loss that was for the medical field. It really took everything I had to finish it and I probably only did because it was a small book. The best part of the book was the epilogue written by his wife, she at least felt warm and personable. Without her input this book would be cold and clinical.
This book had been on my radar for awhile and I finally bumped it up because it was going to be my local library's bookclub read. (turns out their timing didn't match mine but I read the book nevertheless).
I, unlike many others did not enjoy this book at all. I did not like Paul Kalanithi. To me (and this is my opinion to which we are all entitled) he came off as pompous, egotistical and self important. If this book had been written more about how he and his family chose to deal with his terminal cancer it could have been much better. Instead he spent the first part of this book writing about all the years he spent studying to become a neurosurgeon and now he'd never get to fully realize his potential and what a loss that was for the medical field. It really took everything I had to finish it and I probably only did because it was a small book. The best part of the book was the epilogue written by his wife, she at least felt warm and personable. Without her input this book would be cold and clinical.