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Diane Walker asked this question about When Breath Becomes Air:
It looks a little depressing, what did you think?
Carolyn It's depressing to realize that you have lived almost twice as long as the author and that you have lived so much less in all that extra time. Not a g…moreIt's depressing to realize that you have lived almost twice as long as the author and that you have lived so much less in all that extra time. Not a great book, but an honest attempt to examine what makes us human, the question that Kalanithi states is the basis for his various academic pursuits. Since real life is not a skillfully plotted novel, his story must be the life he made and the options he chose, in spite of the cancer that he did not forsee. There is much unsaid in the irony of his medical specialty and search for meaning through science and literature. His silence is the elegant voice that some readers can't hear.(less)
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