false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166152608m/10235.jpg 10235 16 A documentation of the life of Paul Farmer, "a man who would cure the world". Tracy Kidder follows Paul Farmer around the world and back trying to understand the strange man who never gave up on his adolescent ideals and never grew up. Through interviews and shared struggles, Kidder starts to understand the complex and brilliant man just as you, the reader starts understanding and sympathizing him as well. When Paul Farmer was just a student and visited Haiti, he found his life calling there. He traveled sporadically back and forth from Harvard to Haiti to attain his degree but his heart and mind never left. Till this day Paul Farmer keeps his home in Haiti, refusing to give sub-par care to anyone who comes knocking at his door while other doctors keep telling him that it is not "economic" to be giving first class care and medicine to people in poor countries who need it the most. A heartwarming story of struggle against the odds and the preservation of a single man who would give everything up for the sake of others in need. <i>-Dominic Chu</i> 1639628 book 2001 Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World total:8506|5:3926|4:3080|3:1216|2:233|1:51| 8506 36115 11632 1686 1 6 false false Wed Nov 21 00:45:46 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 00:45:46 -0800 2007 5 7 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 08:19:01 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 05:00:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 4 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 12:50:59 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 26 13:04:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 5 false false Tue Jan 22 23:31:34 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 12:58:34 -0800 2008
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In a nutshell, this is a downright unnerving book, especially for someone like me, whose accustomed readings are foreign policy analyses instead of ethnographies. For a start, Kidder’s book begins with him ‘narrating Haiti.’ Curiously, around the same time I re...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Sep 02 16:20:04 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 12 00:00:02 -0800 2008 - Nothing substantive to critique

Highly readable and very satisfying, this is, to the best of my knowledge, the first of Kidder's books in which he appears other than as a distanced narrator. While House and The Soul o...more...]]> 3 4 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 13:08:19 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 10 13:23:21 -0700 2007 "Mountains Beyond Mountains" is neither ...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 08 10:18:17 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 10:18:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Apr 24 10:41:00 -0700 2007 Sun Apr 27 22:15:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 05 07:19:36 -0800 2009 Sun Apr 05 20:30:59 -0700 2009 fucked doesn't come as a surprise. I mean. Just about everything that could possibly go wrong on the road to becoming a self-sustaining country has just been ripped from...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 11 08:33:05 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 08:33:57 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 16 01:37:58 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 27 06:16:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sat Apr 26 15:29:44 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 15:32:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 15 13:09:37 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 23 08:58:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Apr 16 08:40:57 -0700 2007 Mon Apr 16 10:39:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 02 02:43:11 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 02:48:01 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 09 15:17:59 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 18:00:03 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 07:09:17 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 07:14:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 09:40:35 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 12:30:41 -0700 2007
Kidder offers a balanced view of Far...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=10235