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I was born in Ethiopia in 1950 to missionaries with the American Mission. Much of this story took place in Addis Ababa. I could see the sights and smell the food. I wept at parts, shook my head in dismay at parts. I thought Haile Selassie was my grandfather when I was a little girl, so I have a hard time with negative views of him. When he came to the states to visit Jack & Jackie, he flew into the Philadelphia airport, then boarded a Train to arrive in DC with all the fanfare appropriate for royalty. My dad took us down onto the tarmack at the airport to greet the Emperor when he got off the plane and into his limo! The protocol officer was annoyed, but my mother was able to have words with the Emperor's Aide.


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Cutting for Stone A novel Abraham Verghese 9780375414497 Books Reviews

A very touching story of two brothers- twins- who lose their mother as they are born and a story of a country – Ethyo-pia. The twins who were conjoine when they were born, surgically separate but remained conjoined at soul .The book become very enjoyable because of the style of writing. Dr. Verghese.

The book brings out various facets of the country and gives a good perspective of the society for readers to understand and appreciate the ways of life. The turbulence therein has been interwoven so well with the lives of the characters of the story to make a gripping reading. Even though it is not a thriller and given that it is loaded with high technical stuff on medicine and surgery, still I found it difficult to stop my reading at any point. And there were so many details interspersed into the writing, which made it very difficult for me to rush through the pages. So, it was like a strong cup of coffee, the bitterness kept me from finishing it fast, but the taste kept me wanting for more.

It also threw some philosophical angle for what one carries through the life and how the unspoken torments. How the slipper just refuses to leave your feet, unless you look down and acknowledge it in the first place. And also that it’s the noble end which matters, noble means does not.

I would highly recommend this book for all my friends
If you have a medical background or work in hospitals you will LOVE this book. I am not from or in that world. SO at times I really got discouraged/distracted by the medical episodes - BUT I stuck with it, and have to say it was a brilliantly written story. Dr Verghese didn't forget ONE CHARACTER detail from the beginning to the end, and wove the story together in such a beautiful integrate way. Bravo!
Cutting for Stone is Abraham Verghese's big, bloated panorama of 20th century Ethiopia, where medicine and religion meet, and surgeons and Carmelite nuns procreate. The book is a roller coaster ride of agonies and ecstasies that too often relies heavily on coincidence to move the plot along. Add to the end result a rather annoying voice of an omniscient narrator (vividly detailing his breach birth, for example), a marvelous ability to evoke atmosphere and some interesting detail about medicine, and the result is a bouillabaisse of a book, with a few questionable ingredients.

After Thomas Stone and Sister Mary Joseph Praise create their twin progeny Shiva/Marion, CFS slows down for a few hundred pages, exploring the mystic cords (umbilical and otherwise) that bind. Not that it is bad, just too much of a bland thing at times. The second third off the book sets a languorous pace too that takes 150 pages to get the boys to puberty. It would be unfair to say the book bogs down, but it definitely would have benefited from a quicker pace or editing.

The last third is the exact opposite--a series of frenetic coincidences and crises that occasionally seem contrived or created solely to wring every last tear from the reader. Some of it works, other times I found myself rolling my eyes. It was during one of these more implausible instances that it occurred to me the author--for better and for worse--reminds me of Charles Dickens, whom I quite like. Warts and all.
It took me about 1/3 the way through this book to get into it. I was seriously at the point of giving up. I stayed with it and was very moved. Similar emotional invocation as the Kite Runner, except not as good. I could do without the life lessons through surgical procedure. Although I related and empathized with Marion and life, I could have done without the details of surgery. Half clinical and really tedious.
I was born in Ethiopia in 1950 to missionaries with the American Mission. Much of this story took place in Addis Ababa. I could see the sights and smell the food. I wept at parts, shook my head in dismay at parts. I thought Haile Selassie was my grandfather when I was a little girl, so I have a hard time with negative views of him. When he came to the states to visit Jack & Jackie, he flew into the Philadelphia airport, then boarded a Train to arrive in DC with all the fanfare appropriate for royalty. My dad took us down onto the tarmack at the airport to greet the Emperor when he got off the plane and into his limo! The protocol officer was annoyed, but my mother was able to have words with the Emperor's Aide.