A simply beautiful book, beatifully written and a beautiful story with messages for living well sprinkled throughout. The author is a surgeon and there are medical terms here and there which seems to be a turnoff for some but it's easy enough to understand if you don't let yourself get bogged down....
I enjoyed listening to the book and I thought it was going to leave a mark, but once I was finished, I felt it slipping out of my mind. It's a decent story - I'm a little tired of whiny boys, but I guess that was appropriate in this case - with interesting environments and situations and yet, it sti...
My favorite parts of this sizable tome were, of course, the medical jargon and the lyrically gory descriptions of diseases and surgeries. I guess, by now I have finally and irreversibly crossed that thin line between sanity and medicine.Yes, all the descriptions of diseases and surgeries, and the ha...
I really enjoyed this book. It has its weak moments but overall very riveting. A lot of the medical stuff went over my head, but I learned some things as well. I keep telling people things about this book, like "Did you know premature babies can 'forget' to breathe?" All the details about Ethiopia a...
If you have read this book, you have experienced something truly remarkable. Cutting For Stone is one of the best books I have ever read - for its narrative, for its warmth, for its literary style, for its humanity, for its un-put-downable quality, for the journey it takes the reader through, for it...
A deeply affecting story of life and death and the wonders of medicine. It is hard to beleive this is a work of fiction so compelling is the bond between two brothers and the extended family that colours their lives. Brimming with medical insight and vividly set in mid-century Ethiopia this tale tra...
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