Cutting For Stone
Ratings3
Average rating4.7
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Ratings3
Average rating4.7
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles.
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I liked the story very much. It does have a lot of medical terminology and descriptions of medical procedures, which some might find off putting. Those parts could be skimmed though. It still is very much worth reading.
There was too much medical detail, and too much sidetracking during intense scenes. I listened to the audiobook so maybe it's different had I been able to skip ahead in a book, but it would drive me crazy when we'd be in the middle of a surgery, when there were obvious actions that needed to be taken, and the details upon details that were given about misc. people involved in the action and sidetracks we went down would drive me crazy. Get back to the scene – you don't have an hour to discourse about some random event when the patient is dying waiting on you to begin the surgery!!! Plus, I'd often find myself almost sick to my stomach listening to the gory details I really really didn't care to hear. But there were many beautifully written lines and descriptions that kept me listening through hours and hours of tapes... took 2 weeks of commuting to hear it all.
