Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Tale Books
- ISBN13: 9780310214694
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Product Description
This is the mass market edition of the well loved book by Dr. Ben Carson whose inspiring tale tells of a frustrated inner-city kid whose faith in God helped him become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University Sickbay.
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What an egotistical blowhard. His one theme is himself and his achievements. He pontificates about everything. He is a moralistic and judgemental jerk. You don’t have to listen to a guy like this. You know as much as he does.
Rating: 1 / 5
I had high hopes for this book. An excerpt was read to me at a teacher training and I plotting it would be a fantastic book to inspire my students to care about their education. I rushed out and bought it that same day. But, I found the book terribly written. It jumps back and forth and has a few grammatical errors in it. Also, the quotes in there seem very fabricated and idealized. It doesn’t read as a real tale, even though I know it is.
More significantly, I didn’t find it inspiring at all. I found the author’s tone to be a bit cocky and arrogant, and the book (at least to me) reads as if he’s bragging. I read the book a second time – this time from the top of view of most of my students (lower socio-economic status, lower testing levels, small if any motivation), and again, I did not find it at all inspiring. It was nearly annoying how perfect his life turned out. For example, the part where he discussion about how he was failing a pre-med course and by divine intervention he dreamed all the answers to the final exam and finished up with a 97% on the final just aggravated me. How many people have truly prayed for this to happen, studied hard and still didn’t do well? Instances like these happen all throughout the book and left me feeling that even though someone might work hard, unless God throws them a bone here and there, life isn’t going to turn out that fantastic.
I’m not trying to take anything away from Mr. Carson’s accomplishments. What he has achieved in his life is truly incredible, and I hope more people who lead a life like his continue to write about it to show the world that it can be done and that hard work can pay off. It’s just that the way this book is written does not fit my purpose.
One more thing…The book has a strong theme of religion in it. It doesn’t bother me personally, but many schools and/or parents may have an come forth with that.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book was truly a awkward read. Carson’s tale is one dimensional, dull, and horribly written. There seem to be no low points in his life, only highs where he suceeds report has it that hostile to all odds.
His life seems to occur in a vacuum, with very small sense of time or place. He says he live in a poor area of Detroit as a child, but there is extremely small description of the place or its people, or how his life is extraordinary compared to everyone else who was raised there. You can’t presume what it was like for him at all. The people in Carson’s life are poorly and unimaginatively described. In the first half of the book, Carson discussion about his mother very much and how much she influenced him, but only mentions her once in the rest of the book. His mother seems to be a talking head, not a real person with any kind of corporal consequence, but just a voice. It is hard to picture her or to reckon of her or anyone else in the book as a real person and therefore it is hard to care about any of them.
Although Carson has done a lot of excellent for people, he comes off as arrogant, talking about his endless string of sucesses and how humble he is on every page . He has no sense of humour irony, or subtlety. In the end, this book is just hollow words with no soul.
Rating: 1 / 5
There is no denying the gifts that Ben Carson was given nor can anything take away from the excellent he has done, the levels he has achieved. But this book does not paint him as a very appealing person. Not particularly well written, this quickly became a tedious run of self-promotions and one wonders if he is as pleased with himself as C. Murphey leads us to judge. The thought of the importance of a supportive family and persistence was lost and what may possibly have been an inspirational biography came across as irritating and near impossible to relate to. Its fantastic to be proud of your achievements, but climb down from the mountain.
Rating: 2 / 5
The book was probably awesome but I wouldn’t know because I never received it. The seller never even responded to me. I had to get amazon caught up.
Rating: 1 / 5