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Race & social justice /c a side of trauma surgery.

Revisado: 11-01-24

I got this book thinking it was about trauma surgery, with a side of racial issues. I was surprised to find that it was about racial issues and social justice, with a side of trauma surgery. It was really eye opening and extremely though provoking. I am glad I read it. It has definitely shifted my perspective on our society.

Maybe the best accolade I can offer is that only for the second time in a decade, after getting home, I sat in my car for several hours continuing to listen to this book.

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A view of life and medicine, love and loss

Revisado: 05-16-23

Just the book the doctor ordered!

Guaranteed to elicit many deep thoughts, some laughs, and some tears. It will prompt you to ponder your own life; past, present, and future.

And most immediately, it will cause you to sit in your vehicle at your destination for 3 hours, one 6 minute chapter at a time, because each chapter is more interesting than the last and you just can not stop listening till the end.

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So why did the Allies win?

Revisado: 01-20-23

This is a nice, concise history of World War 2. It leaves out a lot of import and relevant events, but that is unavoidable. It spends more time on certain areas, like personalities of leaders and life on home fronts than most similar books do. That is a plus.
But it does not answer the question it poses in the title.

It tries to answer the question in the last chapter, treating all the previous chapters as a long preamble. The answer it comes up with, out of what feels like laziness: It is complicated.

I will give it 5 stars a generic concise overview of WW2. I will give it 1 star for answering the question it set out to answer. That averages out to 3 stars.

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A brief history of the birth of aviation

Revisado: 10-22-22

A brief but very riveting story of the birth of aviation. It starts from the childhood of the Wright Brothers and covers the period to 1910 when the brothers felt aviation was well established and for the first and last time in their lives, they flew together.

The rest of their lives are covered in an epilogue. I wish the epilogue was a bit longer and went into more details about Orville's later life, as well as Charlie Taylor's tragic end.

The narration by the author David McCullough leaves a lot to be desired. While portions of the book are excellently read, in far too many places words are slurred to the point of becoming incomprehensible. I wish Audible will re-release it read by a professional reader.

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Too many incorrect conclusions and dubious sources

Revisado: 09-09-22

The author clearly lacks the insight that an actual pilot will have.

She seems to draw her conclusions and then looks for a source, however outside of mainstream or even basic reasonableness, to justify them. Some of the sources she bases her arguments on are no better than internet conspiracy theories; others are just that.

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Inspired me to become an organ donor.

Revisado: 01-17-22

Inspired me to become an organ donor just in case my plan to use every organ until it completely falls apart fails.

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ending

Revisado: 11-30-20

The ending of this book is ridiculous. It ends abruptly in the middle of the story. I feel this book is just not complete. Very disappointing.

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poorly researched

Revisado: 11-18-20

This book starts off with a "quote" from Albert Einstein. Since the quote is not real I will save my time on an author that will research the topic a little better.

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An excellent read.

Revisado: 10-07-20

An excellent story. While much of it is based on trial transcripts and newspaper accounts, I really wonder how much of it is artistic license and educated speculation.

The difference between the legal procedures then and now is quite eye opening. The digressions for history lessons were very enlightening, but they broke up the flow of the trial in a very annoying way.

What really struck me was the strange confluence of so many future politicians at this one obscure trial. A future president, governors, senators, congressmen... No editor would accept that as the plot of a fiction novel. But truth is indeed stranger than fiction!

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Unjustifiably callous.

Revisado: 10-07-20

This is a very riveting account of US submarine warfare in the Pacific during World War II. While I found the story very interesting and enlightening, the author's attitude towards life was extremely disturbing, leaving me totally disgusted with the author.

The book catalogs the exploits of 3 submarines. It necessarily tallies up their "score" in terms of the number of ships and the tonnage sunk. It also adds the number of people killed, listing it as just another number, without even the slightest nod to the human cost. Even in places where the author makes it clear that the people killed we not just non-combatants, but were there by force, he makes no attempt to humanize the loss. By the end of the book I found his attitude repugnant.

To be clear, this is a book about war. People die in war. People put in a great deal of effort at killing each other. Soldiers are killed. Civilians are killed. Bystanders are killed. It is inevitable -- it is the way it is. Yet none of that justifies the totally dismissive attitude towards the deaths of not just Japanese sailors, but of civilians of many nationalities forcibly conscripted in Japanese merchant marines. One might be able to absolve that attitude in the middle or a war where passions are running hot, attitudes are cold and nations are looking inward. But having that callous attitude when writing 70+ years after the fact is simply inexcusable.

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