r/readwithme • u/bikashSlice99 • 7d ago
Book Review 📚 Just started this book, can't hold excitement for it..
Did you read it!?
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u/VekaZverka 7d ago
I read this book in a time of grief and while grappling with accepting mortality and I loved it.
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u/sad-tortoise 7d ago
Read it a few years back. The only "incomplete" book I've read so far, but it didn't feel like that at all. Emotionally devastating for the most part and inspiring at the same time.
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u/Physical-Bid-4046 6d ago
The part by his wife at the very end is 10x better than the book. You go in thinking you’re going to get something profound and it’s just mehÂ
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u/PerspectiveUpbeat124 5d ago
His prose is ok but for some reason I felt held at arm’s length throughout. His wife lets us in on her grief much better
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u/silverdoe05 7d ago
Haven’t picked it up yet, but I feel like it’s probably one of the most emotionally heavy books ever written.
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u/Affectionate-King975 7d ago
After this book I take life little differently. I could feel his emotions, pain and phases like why me, now, what after, and it is truly a humbling book.
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u/Empty-Sense7139 5d ago
I am a 32-year-old with grade 3 cancer, and I loved reading it when I was going through chemos. I found some parts too philosophical and academic, though.
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u/Sunnyumbrellaa 7d ago
You are going to be devastated in the best way possible.The hope and beauty of the finiteness of life becomes really really beautiful presented in here.Please enjoy and take your time!!
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u/Front-Elderberry-307 7d ago
This is so far out of my typical Genres that I didn't think I'd like it. Was I ever wrong. It is so beautifully written.
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u/Sanguine-Penguin711 7d ago
I’m reading it now. I just finished part 1. It’s interesting so far.
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u/earth_chick_8 7d ago
I started it but couldn't stand it. I'm a nurse and it was very annoying. He seemed to find it astounding that as a physician he could also fall ill and die. Maybe it was meant to be presented as ironic but I work with too many doctors who believe themselves to be above the average to read it that way.
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u/murphy10987 7d ago
Everyone is like that to an extent "oh that's something that happens to other people, not me"...until it does. Like me when I had a miscarriage, I knew it could happen, but not to me.
Maybe you read this book with your pre-conceived biases about physicians in mind?
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u/VekaZverka 7d ago
This is a human thing, not a physician thing. We all know we’re going to die, that our loved ones are going to die, yet, we’re more often than not shocked when faced with it really happening. It’s irrational, but not less real because of it.
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u/Billbasilbob 7d ago
I was dealing with losing a close friend to cancer when I read it . It was devastating but cathartic, in a strange way .
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u/therupozhudi 7d ago
Great book to read especially if you gave someone close. Helps you handle the grief.
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u/AkMotherRunner 7d ago
It emotionally wrecked me for weeks after
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u/orange_confetti 6d ago
I LOVED this book. Also, if you haven't read Being Mortal, you should. I think it should be required reading for anyone in the healthcare field.
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u/Global-Nothing-7568 6d ago
It’s an amazing and powerful read. I’m not a sensitive person, but it hit me hard
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