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4.2 AVERAGE
4.2 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Inspiring story of Dr F and brings global campaign against infectious disease (TB, AIDS) in Haiti, Central America, Russia into sharp focus.
The author tends to have an annoying presence in the writing, which wears you out after a while.
The author tends to have an annoying presence in the writing, which wears you out after a while.
Subject of the book: super interesting. Style of the book: not so great. Wish it were as well-written as it could have been, a subject so complex and intriguing deserves a more cohesive and nuanced book.
I loved this book- what a great story and an inspiration to do something better for other people!
I really dislike the author. I found myself wondering if Paul Farmer could have been better captured by a different, perhaps more organized or ...dare I say...interested author?
Disappointed in a less-than-great telling of Farmers life’s work. What an aspirational person who was not done justice by this biography (that wasn’t meant to be a biography I guess?)
On the bright side I feel a know Farmer a bit better and loved hearing about his patients, the things that made him human, and the abbreviations and shorthand he uses for his day-to-day operations.
Disappointed in a less-than-great telling of Farmers life’s work. What an aspirational person who was not done justice by this biography (that wasn’t meant to be a biography I guess?)
On the bright side I feel a know Farmer a bit better and loved hearing about his patients, the things that made him human, and the abbreviations and shorthand he uses for his day-to-day operations.
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
I love Tracy Kidder's way of story telling. And this story is as compelling as it is interesting. Dr. Paul Farmer is quite an extraordinary person, and I knew not a thing about him until reading this book.
I got stuck in this book, wishing that it ended sooner. I was told by many that it got a lot better about 50 pages from where I stopped, but I was too bogged down by the digression into Peru. Maybe someday I'll come back and find out.
I enjoy Tracy Kidder always, but this book is inspiring. Dr. Farmer is tireless, selfless, and a visionary. Not discouraged by the enormity of the problem. I want to be like him.