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jakeblum's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This is simply the best nonfiction book of our time. Read it and experience self-reflection like no other.
kaleysfullybooked's review against another edition
5.0
Me: “hm I’m not crying as much as people said I would.”
Me while reading the last few pages:
Me while reading the last few pages:
thxalatte's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.75
hannahb123's review against another edition
4.0
this was such a beautiful read about life's meaning and what it means to live. which sounds like the same thing but it's not I swear.
i don't really have a lot of other thoughts so i'll just drop some quotes here that i really loved.
"couldn't it wait until tomorrow? no. a sigh, and earth continued to rotate back toward the sun."
"i knew that someday i would die, but i didn't know when. but now i knew it acutely. the problem wasn't really a scientific one. the fact of death is unsettling. yet there is no other way to live."
"the word hope first appeared in english about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. but what i desired - life - was not what i was confident about - death. when i talked about hope, then, did i really mean "leave some room for unfounded desire?" no."
"you can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving."
go read it, its fucking sad, but fucking beautiful.
i don't really have a lot of other thoughts so i'll just drop some quotes here that i really loved.
"couldn't it wait until tomorrow? no. a sigh, and earth continued to rotate back toward the sun."
"i knew that someday i would die, but i didn't know when. but now i knew it acutely. the problem wasn't really a scientific one. the fact of death is unsettling. yet there is no other way to live."
"the word hope first appeared in english about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. but what i desired - life - was not what i was confident about - death. when i talked about hope, then, did i really mean "leave some room for unfounded desire?" no."
"you can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving."
go read it, its fucking sad, but fucking beautiful.
hannahb7's review against another edition
4.0
this was such a beautiful read about life's meaning and what it means to live. which sounds like the same thing but it's not I swear.
i don't really have a lot of other thoughts so i'll just drop some quotes here that i really loved.
"couldn't it wait until tomorrow? no. a sigh, and earth continued to rotate back toward the sun."
"i knew that someday i would die, but i didn't know when. but now i knew it acutely. the problem wasn't really a scientific one. the fact of death is unsettling. yet there is no other way to live."
"the word hope first appeared in english about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. but what i desired - life - was not what i was confident about - death. when i talked about hope, then, did i really mean "leave some room for unfounded desire?" no."
"you can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving."
go read it, its fucking sad, but fucking beautiful.
i don't really have a lot of other thoughts so i'll just drop some quotes here that i really loved.
"couldn't it wait until tomorrow? no. a sigh, and earth continued to rotate back toward the sun."
"i knew that someday i would die, but i didn't know when. but now i knew it acutely. the problem wasn't really a scientific one. the fact of death is unsettling. yet there is no other way to live."
"the word hope first appeared in english about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. but what i desired - life - was not what i was confident about - death. when i talked about hope, then, did i really mean "leave some room for unfounded desire?" no."
"you can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving."
go read it, its fucking sad, but fucking beautiful.
sudoankit's review against another edition
5.0
Teardrops, perhaps are the most beautiful side effect of cancer. This book, the writing is a tear. Paul's teardrop full of love, fatherhood, passion to write and commitment to medicine.
Thank you Dr. Paul.
Dr. Abraham Verghese says he got to know you intimately only after your death, it's so true.
After reading the book, I too know you quite well and though we never met throughout this book, I kept feeling your beautiful teardrop.
Everyone should feel this book, his teardrop.
Thank you Dr. Paul.
Dr. Abraham Verghese says he got to know you intimately only after your death, it's so true.
After reading the book, I too know you quite well and though we never met throughout this book, I kept feeling your beautiful teardrop.
Everyone should feel this book, his teardrop.
littletsundoku's review against another edition
5.0
"You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving."
Wow. Simply profound and breathtaking. No pun intended.
I think that a person cannot be anymore braver than when they say that they're ready. Ready to face the unknown, ready to accept, and more importantly, ready to face death. It was what made me tear up at the end of this book.
This book provokes a lot of philosophical thoughts such as "Who Am I?", "What is my purpose here on earth?", "Why did this have to happen to me?". Paul's experience is one of those cases in which the statement "Everything happens for a reason" seems like a load of crap.
He was brilliant and he could've contributed greatly in different fields but life could decide to be cruel in an instant to remind us of our mortality.
But if Paul learned to answer the question of "Why Me?" with a "Why not me?", then we could too. His goal to show readers what it's like to understand death and to eventually savor our last moments to be alive was delivered well and it's a gift that everyone should also experience.
"In the silences between his words, listen to what you have to say back."
Wow. Simply profound and breathtaking. No pun intended.
I think that a person cannot be anymore braver than when they say that they're ready. Ready to face the unknown, ready to accept, and more importantly, ready to face death. It was what made me tear up at the end of this book.
This book provokes a lot of philosophical thoughts such as "Who Am I?", "What is my purpose here on earth?", "Why did this have to happen to me?". Paul's experience is one of those cases in which the statement "Everything happens for a reason" seems like a load of crap.
He was brilliant and he could've contributed greatly in different fields but life could decide to be cruel in an instant to remind us of our mortality.
But if Paul learned to answer the question of "Why Me?" with a "Why not me?", then we could too. His goal to show readers what it's like to understand death and to eventually savor our last moments to be alive was delivered well and it's a gift that everyone should also experience.
"In the silences between his words, listen to what you have to say back."