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Stiff is SUCH a great read!
Surprised people here hating on House of God, I recently listened to the audiobook and personally I loved it. While I do think it's a bit over-hyped for sure, I definitely was entertained. If you like dark humor, interesting characters and some somber drama then you will likely enjoy it.
On the other hand, I started When Breath Becomes Air and stopped about an hour into the audiobook. I'm not sure how to put it into words what was wrong with it, it just seemed so over the top, sort of hoity toity making it sound like the writer was some sort of super hero.. If someone tells me it gets better I may go back to it. Maybe I should have seen it coming though with such a (IMO) gag-inducing title.
+1 also for the Emperor of All Maladies. I'm only a few chapters in but so far it's a good/ interesting read.
I agree that HOG certainly felt aimless at times and could have used a bit more direction, I remember thinking that myself! Character wise, I personally enjoyed the fatman and the dynamic the main character had with his fellow interns/ physicians, but obviously to each their own.Breath Becomes Air was...alright. It felt to me the whole time as if the author was writing the book to prove how amazing he could have been if it weren't for that dang cancer. Which is fine, but I didn't find it as meaningful as popular report would have lead me to believe.
I just didn't find House of God to have interesting characters or any real plot.
Fair enough. I suppose it's just that I usually read to get away from cynicism and the things that bother me, not to wallow in them. I'd rather read about someone struggling with something more epic and less dreary than reality!House of God is to medicine as Animal House is to college and Catch-22 is to the military. It is satire. It is about getting through a difficult year in one's life. It is less about plot and more about comedy bits and running jokes.
Here are some old threads with recommended titles. They are a few years old so you should be able to find these in the used market for CHEAP!
Airport Reading
Some Worthwhile Summer Reading
House of God is to medicine as Animal House is to college and Catch-22 is to the military. It is satire. It is about getting through a difficult year in one's life. It is less about plot and more about comedy bits and running jokes.
Here are some old threads with recommended titles. They are a few years old so you should be able to find these in the used market for CHEAP!
Airport Reading
Some Worthwhile Summer Reading
Emperor of All Maladies is phenomenal. Highly recommended. His second book, The Gene, is also very good, although I haven't finished it yet. I liked "When the Air Hits Your Brain." Also, "Walk on Water: The Miracle of Saving Children's Lives" is written by a journalist about a pediatric heart surgeon. Really good.
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Actually, I'm just looking for some non-academic, medically related book recommendations. I just recently finished:
When Breath Become Air
Being Mortal
Hot Lights, Cold Steel
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Then I liked it once you said April Fool's 'cause you got 'eeemed me
Then I unliked it once you asked for medically related book recommendations because I don't like to read them
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This is blasphemyI'm going to advise against reading House of God. I got advice to read the book and was told how good it was, but I don't think it was that great. Felt like there were many parts I was reading just to read something that was highly recommended. Some of it was interesting, but I think it's a bit overdone...
It had too much chick flick nonsense in it. I couldn't care less about "how the sun looked as it reflected off of Berry's swamp ass" or whatever he went on about at one point.This is blasphemy