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Cole Family Trilogy #1
The Physician
In the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick鈥攁nd discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healing鈥攁 gift that urged him on to become a doctor. So all consuming was his dream, that he made the perilous, unheard-of journey to Persia, to its Arab universities where he would undertake a transformation that would shape his destiny forever.
714 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 7, 1986
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May 26, 2011
This is one of the most satisfying novels I've read in a long time. One of my rare six-star selections. There's a consistency of quality from cover to cover, owing to the perfect marriage of fine writing and graceful editing.
Rob J. Cole is a man who feels called to be a healer. He stays true to that calling, even when surrounded by other physicians who are motivated by greed and glory. He risks and sacrifices all for the chance to study in Persia with Ibn Sina, the greatest physician of the 11th century.
The story is especially fulfilling because it comes full circle. Rob returns to London after many years in foreign lands. Through comparison with those who have never left home, he realizes how he has grown in compassion, tolerance, and critical thinking. He's so far ahead of the doctors around him that he doesn't fit in, but he does finally find a place where he can put down roots and be surrounded by a loving family and community. This is a sweet relief for him after having been an orphan and an outsider since the age of nine.
I read the final paragraph of the book three times in a row with tears in my eyes. There are no spoilers in it, so here is that paragraph:
"As the seasons slipped by, only one thing was constant. The extra sense, the healer's sensitivity, never abandoned him. Whether he was called lonely in the night to a bedside or hurried of a morning into the crowded dispensary, he could always feel their pain. Hastening to struggle with it, he never failed to know--as he had known from the first day in the maristan--a rush of wondering gratitude that he was chosen, that it was he whom God's hand had reached out and touched, and that such an opportunity to minister and serve should have been given to Barber's boy."
That sense of duty, of being one chosen to ease suffering, has completely disappeared from the practice of modern medicine. That is a tragedy beyond reckoning.
Rob J. Cole is a man who feels called to be a healer. He stays true to that calling, even when surrounded by other physicians who are motivated by greed and glory. He risks and sacrifices all for the chance to study in Persia with Ibn Sina, the greatest physician of the 11th century.
The story is especially fulfilling because it comes full circle. Rob returns to London after many years in foreign lands. Through comparison with those who have never left home, he realizes how he has grown in compassion, tolerance, and critical thinking. He's so far ahead of the doctors around him that he doesn't fit in, but he does finally find a place where he can put down roots and be surrounded by a loving family and community. This is a sweet relief for him after having been an orphan and an outsider since the age of nine.
I read the final paragraph of the book three times in a row with tears in my eyes. There are no spoilers in it, so here is that paragraph:
"As the seasons slipped by, only one thing was constant. The extra sense, the healer's sensitivity, never abandoned him. Whether he was called lonely in the night to a bedside or hurried of a morning into the crowded dispensary, he could always feel their pain. Hastening to struggle with it, he never failed to know--as he had known from the first day in the maristan--a rush of wondering gratitude that he was chosen, that it was he whom God's hand had reached out and touched, and that such an opportunity to minister and serve should have been given to Barber's boy."
That sense of duty, of being one chosen to ease suffering, has completely disappeared from the practice of modern medicine. That is a tragedy beyond reckoning.
March 20, 2022
The Physician (Cole Family Trilogy #1), Noah Gordon
The Physician is a novel by Noah Gordon. It is about the life of a Christian English boy in the 11th century who journeys across Europe in order to study medicine among the Persians.
Part One: Barber's Boy: It is the year 1020. Rob Cole is the eldest of many children. His father is a Joiner in the Guild of Carpenters in London. His mother, Agnes Cole, is his father's wife. Robert has a particular Gift: he can sense when someone is going to die. When his mother and father both die, the Cole household is parceled out to various neighbors and friends. The Cole children are parceled out likewise. ...
Part Two: The Long Journey: Rob travels, as a Christian, from London throughout Europe to Constantinople. Here he becomes Jewish in appearance, and travels eastwards with a group of Jewish merchants, learning their ways as best he can. ...
Part Three: Isfahan Rob arrives in the city of Isfahan, in the heart of the Abbasid Caliphate (in present-day Iran), and tries to enter into the school of physicians there. He is not allowed access. He struggles to survive in the city, homeless, while searching for a way to enter the school.
Part Four: The Maristan: A chance encounter with the Shah of Persia opens for Rob the door to the school of physicians (Bimaristan). Here he begins the study of medicine鈥攖he first formal study he has ever had in his life. At the same time he immerses himself in the life of a Persian Jew.
Part Five: The War Surgeon: Comparable to a surgical residency or similar term of practicum, Rob goes to a war-torn (and plague-torn) land to practice his medical knowledge. His journeys with the Shah's armies take him as far as India, where he encounters elephants, spices, and Wootz steel. He makes friends among the Muslim students of the school. ...
Part Six: Hakim: He is passed as a physician and helps to instruct new physicians in the school. Rob and Mary's son is named Robert James Cole. She, at one point, is visited by Ibn Sina, who tells her that the Shah requested her presence, otherwise he'd kill Rob. Mary understood that it meant that the Shah intended to have sex with her, and goes to him. After having sex with Shah, she gets pregnant. When the child, named Thomas Scott, is born, the Shah sends him a rug, and Rob realizes that Thomas is not his son. Mary, however, tells him that she kept them both alive, and leaves his bedroom. However, when Mary beats him for thinking that he had been with prostitutes, the two are able to tell the truth and reconcile themselves.
Part Seven: The Returned: Rob struggles to locate his lost brothers and sisters, likewise to make his place amongst the terribly ignorant physicians of London. Despairing, he returns with his wife and family to Scotland, where he acts as physician to his wife's people high in the hills.
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The Physician is a novel by Noah Gordon. It is about the life of a Christian English boy in the 11th century who journeys across Europe in order to study medicine among the Persians.
Part One: Barber's Boy: It is the year 1020. Rob Cole is the eldest of many children. His father is a Joiner in the Guild of Carpenters in London. His mother, Agnes Cole, is his father's wife. Robert has a particular Gift: he can sense when someone is going to die. When his mother and father both die, the Cole household is parceled out to various neighbors and friends. The Cole children are parceled out likewise. ...
Part Two: The Long Journey: Rob travels, as a Christian, from London throughout Europe to Constantinople. Here he becomes Jewish in appearance, and travels eastwards with a group of Jewish merchants, learning their ways as best he can. ...
Part Three: Isfahan Rob arrives in the city of Isfahan, in the heart of the Abbasid Caliphate (in present-day Iran), and tries to enter into the school of physicians there. He is not allowed access. He struggles to survive in the city, homeless, while searching for a way to enter the school.
Part Four: The Maristan: A chance encounter with the Shah of Persia opens for Rob the door to the school of physicians (Bimaristan). Here he begins the study of medicine鈥攖he first formal study he has ever had in his life. At the same time he immerses himself in the life of a Persian Jew.
Part Five: The War Surgeon: Comparable to a surgical residency or similar term of practicum, Rob goes to a war-torn (and plague-torn) land to practice his medical knowledge. His journeys with the Shah's armies take him as far as India, where he encounters elephants, spices, and Wootz steel. He makes friends among the Muslim students of the school. ...
Part Six: Hakim: He is passed as a physician and helps to instruct new physicians in the school. Rob and Mary's son is named Robert James Cole. She, at one point, is visited by Ibn Sina, who tells her that the Shah requested her presence, otherwise he'd kill Rob. Mary understood that it meant that the Shah intended to have sex with her, and goes to him. After having sex with Shah, she gets pregnant. When the child, named Thomas Scott, is born, the Shah sends him a rug, and Rob realizes that Thomas is not his son. Mary, however, tells him that she kept them both alive, and leaves his bedroom. However, when Mary beats him for thinking that he had been with prostitutes, the two are able to tell the truth and reconcile themselves.
Part Seven: The Returned: Rob struggles to locate his lost brothers and sisters, likewise to make his place amongst the terribly ignorant physicians of London. Despairing, he returns with his wife and family to Scotland, where he acts as physician to his wife's people high in the hills.
毓賳賵丕賳賴丕蹖 趩丕倬 卮丿賴 丿乇 丕蹖乇丕賳: 芦丨讴蹖賲 - 丕夭 賱賳丿賳 鬲丕 丕氐賮賴丕賳 丿乇 賲丨囟乇 丕亘賳 爻蹖賳丕禄貨 芦倬夭卮讴: 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 丕亘賳 爻蹖賳丕 丕夭 爻乇诏卮鬲诏蹖 鬲丕 卮讴賮鬲诏蹖禄貨 鬲丕乇蹖禺 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 禺賵丕賳卮: 乇賵夭 爻賵賲 賲丕賴 丕讴鬲亘乇 爻丕賱1999賲蹖賱丕丿蹖
毓賳賵丕賳: 丨讴蹖賲 - 丕夭 賱賳丿賳 鬲丕 丕氐賮賴丕賳 丿乇 賲丨囟乇 丕亘賳 爻蹖賳丕貨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴: 賳賵丌 (賳賵賵丕) 诏賵乇丿賵賳貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 噩賵丕丿 爻蹖丿丕卮乇賮貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 夭乇蹖賳貙 爻丕賱1375貨 丿乇687氐貨 賲賵囟賵毓 賲丕噩乇丕蹖 丕亘賳 爻蹖賳丕 丕夭 賳賵蹖爻賳丿诏丕賳 丕蹖丕賱丕鬲 賲鬲丨丿賴 丌賲乇蹖讴丕 - 爻丿賴20賲
賲鬲乇噩賲: 胤丕賴乇賴 氐丿蹖賯蹖丕賳貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 乇賵卮賳诏乇丕賳貙 爻丕賱1388貙 丿乇784氐貨 卮丕亘讴9789641940067貨
亘丕 毓賳賵丕賳: 倬夭卮讴 : 乇賵夭賴丕蹖 丕亘賳 爻蹖賳丕 丕夭 爻乇诏卮鬲诏蹖 鬲丕 卮讴賮鬲诏蹖貨 賲鬲乇噩賲: 讴蹖賵賲乇孬 倬丕乇爻丕蹖貨 鬲賴乇丕賳貙 賯氐賴 倬乇丿丕夭貙 丿亘蹖乇貙 爻丕賱1379貙 丿乇632氐貨 趩丕倬 丿賵賲 爻丕賱1387貨 卮丕亘讴9789646916487貨
賴卮丿丕乇 丕诏乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 賳禺賵丕賳丿賴 丕蹖丿 丕蹖賳 賳賵卮鬲丕乇 賲賲讴賳 丕爻鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 乇丕 丕賮卮丕 讴賳丿貨
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趩讴蹖丿賴 丿丕爻鬲丕賳: 爻丕賱1020賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 丕爻鬲貨 芦乇丕亘 讴賵賱禄 亘夭乇诏鬲乇蹖賳 賮乇夭賳丿 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 丕爻鬲貨 倬丿乇卮 毓囟賵 丕鬲丨丕丿蹖賴 氐賳賮 賳噩丕乇丕賳 芦賱賳丿賳禄貨 賵 賳丕賲 賲丕丿乇卮 芦丕诏賳爻 讴賵賱禄 丕爻鬲貨 芦乇丕亘乇鬲禄 蹖讴 賵蹖跇诏蹖 丿丕乇丿: 丕賵 賲蹖鬲賵丕賳丿 丌賳诏丕賴 讴賴 讴爻蹖 賲蹖禺賵丕賴丿 亘賲蹖乇丿貙 丌賳 乇丕 丨爻 讴賳丿貨 賵賯鬲蹖 賲丕丿乇 賵 倬丿乇卮 賴乇 丿賵 賲蹖賲蹖乇賳丿貙 禺丕賳賵丕丿賴 芦讴賵賱禄 亘蹖賳 賴賲爻丕蹖诏丕賳貙 賵 丿賵爻鬲丕賳 倬匕蹖乇卮 賲蹖卮賵賳丿貨 芦乇丕亘乇鬲 噩乇蹖賲蹖 讴賵賱禄 卮禺氐蹖鬲 丕氐賱蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳貙 丿乇 讴賵丿讴蹖貙 亘丕 蹖讴 丿賱丕讴 丿賵乇賴 诏乇丿貙 賴賲爻賮乇 賲蹖卮賵丿貙 賵 賲丿鬲 賴賮鬲 爻丕賱貙 亘丕 賵蹖 賲蹖賲丕賳丿貨 丿乇 丕蹖賳 夭賲丕賳 卮毓亘丿賴 亘丕夭蹖貙 鬲乇丿爻鬲蹖貙 丕賳丿讴蹖 賳蹖夭 胤亘丕亘鬲貙 賲蹖丌賲賵夭丿貨 亘丕 丌賳 丿賱丕讴 丿賵乇賴 诏乇丿貙 爻乇丕爻乇 芦丕賳诏賱爻鬲丕賳禄 乇丕貙 夭蹖乇 倬丕蹖 賲蹖诏匕丕乇丿貙 賵 乇賵蹖丿丕丿賴丕蹖 诏賵賳丕诏賵賳蹖 乇丕 賲蹖丌夭賲丕蹖丿貨 倬爻 丕夭 賲乇诏 丌賲賵夭诏丕乇卮貙 鬲氐賲蹖賲 賲蹖诏蹖乇丿 倬夭卮讴蹖 亘蹖丕賲賵夭丿貨 丌賵丕夭賴 蹖 芦倬賵乇爻蹖賳丕禄 倬夭卮讴 賳丕賲丿丕乇 芦丕蹖乇丕賳蹖禄 丕賵 乇丕 賵丕丿丕乇 賲蹖讴賳丿貨 亘賴 丿蹖丿丕乇 丕賵 亘乇賵丿貨 丕賲丕 賳賴 芦賲爻賱賲丕賳丕賳禄 賲蹖鬲賵丕賳賳丿貙 丿乇 讴卮賵乇賴丕蹖 芦丕乇賵倬丕蹖 賲爻蹖丨蹖禄 夭賳丿诏蹖 讴賳賳丿貙 賵 賳賴 芦賲爻蹖丨蹖丕賳禄 丨賯 丌賲賵夭卮 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖貙 丿乇 讴卮賵乇賴丕蹖 芦丕爻賱丕賲蹖禄 乇丕 丿丕乇賳丿貨 亘賴 賳丕趩丕乇 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘賴 卮賲丕蹖賱 蹖讴 芦蹖賴賵丿蹖禄 丿乇賲蹖丌賵乇丿貙 賵 賳丕賲 芦蹖爻賵毓 丕亘賳 亘賳蹖丕賲蹖賳禄 乇丕 亘乇賲蹖诏夭蹖賳丿貨 亘賴 芦丕蹖乇丕賳禄 賲蹖乇賵丿貙 賵 賲賵乇丿 賱胤賮 賵 毓賳丕蹖鬲 芦倬丕丿卮丕賴禄 賯乇丕乇 賲蹖诏蹖乇丿貙 賵 禺賱毓鬲 卮丕賴丕賳賴 丿乇蹖丕賮鬲 賲蹖讴賳丿貨 丕賵 乇丕 丿乇 賲丿乇爻賴 蹖 芦毓賱賲 胤亘禄 賲蹖倬匕蹖乇賳丿貨 亘丕 丕卮鬲蹖丕賯蹖 爻鬲丕蹖卮 卮丿賳蹖貙 亘賴 賮乇丕诏蹖乇蹖 毓賱賵賲 賲蹖倬乇丿丕夭丿貙 賵 丿乇 讴賲鬲乇 丕夭 爻賴 爻丕賱貙 亘賴 賲賯丕賲 芦胤亘蹖亘禄 賳丕蹖賱 賲蹖卮賵丿貨 丿乇 卮乇丕蹖胤蹖 讴賴 讴丕賱亘丿 卮讴丕賮蹖 丕夭 賳馗乇 賴乇 爻賴 丿蹖賳 芦丕爻賱丕賲禄貙 芦賲爻蹖丨蹖鬲禄貙 賵 芦蹖賴賵丿蹖鬲禄 噩乇賲 丕爻鬲貙 丕賵 倬賳賴丕賳蹖 亘賴 讴丕賱亘丿 卮讴丕賮蹖 賲蹖倬乇丿丕夭丿貙 鬲丕 丕夭 乇丕夭 亘蹖賲丕乇蹖賴丕 倬乇丿賴 亘乇丿丕乇丿貨 趩賳丿 爻丕賱 丿乇 芦丕氐賮賴丕賳禄 賲蹖賲丕賳丿貙 賵 丿乇 丕蹖賳 賲丿鬲 丕夭丿賵丕噩 賲蹖讴賳丿貨 丿乇 倬丕蹖丕賳 毓賲乇 芦卮蹖禺 丕賱乇卅蹖爻禄貙 丿乇 讴賳丕乇 丕蹖卮丕賳 賲蹖賳卮蹖賳丿貙 丕賵 倬爻 丕夭 丿乇诏匕卮鬲 丕爻鬲丕丿 禺賵蹖卮貙 毓夭丕丿丕乇蹖 賲蹖讴賳丿貨 丕賲丕 丿蹖诏乇 讴丕乇蹖 丿乇 芦丕蹖乇丕賳禄 賳丿丕乇丿貨 亘丕 賴賲爻乇卮 亘賴 芦賱賳丿賳禄 亘丕夭賲蹖诏乇丿賳丿貨 賵 爻乇丕賳噩丕賲 賴賲 亘賴 芦丕爻讴丕鬲賱賳丿禄 賲蹖乇賵賳丿貙 賵 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌乇丕賲蹖 乇丕 丌睾丕夭 賲蹖讴賳賳丿貨 诏賮鬲诏賵賴丕蹖 賲蹖丕賳 卮禺氐蹖鬲賴丕蹖 丿丕爻鬲丕賳貙 亘爻蹖丕乇 夭蹖亘丕貙 跇乇賮 賵 毓乇賮丕賳蹖 丕爻鬲貨 卮诏賮鬲 丌賵乇 丕爻鬲貙 讴賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴貙 丕蹖賳 趩賳蹖賳 鬲賵丕賳爻鬲賴 芦丕蹖乇丕賳 讴賴賳禄 乇丕貙 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 賵丕跇賴 賴丕蹖 禺賵蹖卮 亘讴卮丕賳丿
鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 23/03/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 28/12/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
June 4, 2023
Rated: 4馃専s
When I saw THE PHYSICIAN, I was drawn to it not only for its ebook price, but by its cover. The number of pages didn鈥檛 dissuade me and I looked forward to the story.
WOW, what a story. I refuse to share spoilers and the fact that this book is part of a saga of the Cole family, that makes it very difficult (for me).
I absolutely devoured all of the new historical data and knowledge that was contained within; however, to me the first part of the book dragged with, at times, mind-numbing daily life of the main character in order to develop the background. I was tempted to give up, but the last three-quarters of the book made me so glad that I had persevered until the end.
Unbelievably, I find myself so intrigued, that I鈥檝e added SHAMAN - book 2 in the trilogy to my TBR. 馃槈
When I saw THE PHYSICIAN, I was drawn to it not only for its ebook price, but by its cover. The number of pages didn鈥檛 dissuade me and I looked forward to the story.
WOW, what a story. I refuse to share spoilers and the fact that this book is part of a saga of the Cole family, that makes it very difficult (for me).
I absolutely devoured all of the new historical data and knowledge that was contained within; however, to me the first part of the book dragged with, at times, mind-numbing daily life of the main character in order to develop the background. I was tempted to give up, but the last three-quarters of the book made me so glad that I had persevered until the end.
Unbelievably, I find myself so intrigued, that I鈥檝e added SHAMAN - book 2 in the trilogy to my TBR. 馃槈
July 18, 2015
4.5* It took several chapters for the captivating and superb story to emerge within these 768 pages. Although the beginning of the book had some interesting events, it tended to drag on with the same theme. Approximately half way into the book it came alive and so begins the arduous adventure of the physician barber Rob J. Cole. Set in the 11th century, Cole is left an orphan at 9 years of age, while his siblings are taken in by other families from British villages not far from his own home. With a difficult and demanding road to travel once he reaches manhood his one true desire takes hold; to become the best physician he could possibly be. Travelling far from his homeland Cole meets several individuals who help him as he struggles to achieve his quest. As the story continues to unfold, his new acquaintances begin to form a strong bond of real and lasting friendship enhancing the storyline significantly. If the book had 200 pages trimmed from the first half, and some 100 pages from the remaining half it would be a true masterpiece. Having managed to carry on through the first half of this substantial book through to the end, it was well worth the journey.
December 13, 2020
I'll never come to grips with the decision of the writer, Noah Gordon, to extend the chapters, to outstay his welcome. I freely admit to skipping a couple of chapters. That was a thing I didn't want to do, but the relevant chapters were too abysmal.
I'll never read another book by said author. I ought to be thankful that someone can infuse some life, urgency, pathos, and interest in such a big book, but I think the decision to end the book the way it did was treacherous. I happen to think that the author and the reader don't owe each other anything, but instinctively I find it logically incorrect.
The writer owes us something. What that something is, is not clear. Gordon made me hate the entire book by proxy of him exhausting his goodwill with boring and suicidal writing. The one good thing the book did was awaken me to the possibility of reading non fiction by writers like Karen Armstrong. That is the only tangible thing left to me. The rest of my reading experience has been wasted. I won't return to this storyteller, ever.
I'll never read another book by said author. I ought to be thankful that someone can infuse some life, urgency, pathos, and interest in such a big book, but I think the decision to end the book the way it did was treacherous. I happen to think that the author and the reader don't owe each other anything, but instinctively I find it logically incorrect.
The writer owes us something. What that something is, is not clear. Gordon made me hate the entire book by proxy of him exhausting his goodwill with boring and suicidal writing. The one good thing the book did was awaken me to the possibility of reading non fiction by writers like Karen Armstrong. That is the only tangible thing left to me. The rest of my reading experience has been wasted. I won't return to this storyteller, ever.
July 23, 2020
4.5*
Long but beautifully written. It was time well spent.
Long but beautifully written. It was time well spent.
May 9, 2013
TEST 2
I thought perhaps the easiest way to synthesize my feelings towards this book was to answer the following 5 questions:
When did the story take place: The first half of the eleventh century.
Who were the central characters: Rob J Cole, his friends and employers and later his wife (Mary Cullen).
Where did it take place: England, Scotland, a trip across Europe to Isfahan, Perisa and even a short episode in India!
What was the point of the book: I believe the book was written to inform readers in an engaging manner about the time period and how it really would have felt to live then and in these specific places. The book does this well. You do learn what all aspects of life were like. You get the details concerning food, clothing, hardships and joys, both pagan and religious(Christian, Jewish and Muslim) beliefs and how medical problems were viewed, treated and looked upon by various groups.
How was the book written:: OK, here is the problem! It was didactic. There were so many details that you were swamped. A chapter was spent on how one can learn to juggle...... Yes, it was actually quite revealing, but only to a point. It went on too long. This can be said in relation to many, many points. You learn how to correctly place phylacteries according to the Jewish faith, how to prepare kosher food, how to make the the medicines then available...... Parts, for example how the school in Isfahan, Persia was organized, were very interesting. Probably different parts will appeal to different readers, but to no one will ALL of it be interesting. Let me repeat, it was very didactic, to a fault! The language was clear and informative, but that was it - no sparkle what so ever!!!! I guess that is my biggest complaint. It felt like you were reading YA literature, even though some of the episodes were quite rough.Always you felt like it was trying to teach the readers. The writing was simplistic. Only very, very rarely did it encourage the reader to pose philosophical questions. It just presented the facts. By the end of the book I was finally engaged in the characters and had to find out how things would end. However for the majority I was slugging through the pages. Rarely did I laugh. I cannot remember in fact if I ever laughed.... I will not be reading another book by this author. There are better books out there that BOTH inform and capture my imagination.
My head tells me the book deserves more stars, but I am sticking with my gut feelings. Most of the time was thinking this book is OK. That is how I felt, not how I was thinking. The point of this review is to try and figure out for myself and perhaps others why I felt the way I did.
I thought perhaps the easiest way to synthesize my feelings towards this book was to answer the following 5 questions:
When did the story take place: The first half of the eleventh century.
Who were the central characters: Rob J Cole, his friends and employers and later his wife (Mary Cullen).
Where did it take place: England, Scotland, a trip across Europe to Isfahan, Perisa and even a short episode in India!
What was the point of the book: I believe the book was written to inform readers in an engaging manner about the time period and how it really would have felt to live then and in these specific places. The book does this well. You do learn what all aspects of life were like. You get the details concerning food, clothing, hardships and joys, both pagan and religious(Christian, Jewish and Muslim) beliefs and how medical problems were viewed, treated and looked upon by various groups.
How was the book written:: OK, here is the problem! It was didactic. There were so many details that you were swamped. A chapter was spent on how one can learn to juggle...... Yes, it was actually quite revealing, but only to a point. It went on too long. This can be said in relation to many, many points. You learn how to correctly place phylacteries according to the Jewish faith, how to prepare kosher food, how to make the the medicines then available...... Parts, for example how the school in Isfahan, Persia was organized, were very interesting. Probably different parts will appeal to different readers, but to no one will ALL of it be interesting. Let me repeat, it was very didactic, to a fault! The language was clear and informative, but that was it - no sparkle what so ever!!!! I guess that is my biggest complaint. It felt like you were reading YA literature, even though some of the episodes were quite rough.Always you felt like it was trying to teach the readers. The writing was simplistic. Only very, very rarely did it encourage the reader to pose philosophical questions. It just presented the facts. By the end of the book I was finally engaged in the characters and had to find out how things would end. However for the majority I was slugging through the pages. Rarely did I laugh. I cannot remember in fact if I ever laughed.... I will not be reading another book by this author. There are better books out there that BOTH inform and capture my imagination.
My head tells me the book deserves more stars, but I am sticking with my gut feelings. Most of the time was thinking this book is OK. That is how I felt, not how I was thinking. The point of this review is to try and figure out for myself and perhaps others why I felt the way I did.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 25, 2020
Le铆do hace mill贸n y medio de a帽os (a帽o arriba, a帽o abajo)
Fue un best seller, cay贸 en mis j贸venes manos, lo le铆 y me encant贸.
Todos sab茅is de qu茅 va. Si no lo sab茅is, mejor, porque ya ten茅is algo ligero para leer este verano.
Es el primero de la trilog铆a que se completa con Cham谩n y La doctora Cole. Le铆 los tres y me gustaron los tres.
(La review de esos s贸lo va a decir que le谩is esta y s铆 tras leer el libro os engancha, pues eso)
Fue un best seller, cay贸 en mis j贸venes manos, lo le铆 y me encant贸.
Todos sab茅is de qu茅 va. Si no lo sab茅is, mejor, porque ya ten茅is algo ligero para leer este verano.
Es el primero de la trilog铆a que se completa con Cham谩n y La doctora Cole. Le铆 los tres y me gustaron los tres.
(La review de esos s贸lo va a decir que le谩is esta y s铆 tras leer el libro os engancha, pues eso)
April 30, 2024
Lectura finalizada en Noviembre de 2023
Esperaba un libro diferente.
No ha estado mal, pero tampoco ha estado cerca de ser una de mis lecturas favoritas. El m茅dico, de Noah Gordon, fue una lectura provechosa que me ha concientizado sobre las dificultades que se presentaban en la Edad Media con respecto a la medicina. Existieron muchos tab煤s, ignorancia y una tendencia al conformismo que imped铆a el progreso en esta 谩rea tan importante de una sociedad; un contexto excelente que alimenta la curiosidad del lector al hacernos teorizar sobre las formas como el protagonista 鈥攓ue tiene incorporada la chispa de la rebeld铆a鈥� va a romper las reglas. Ese es un aspecto muy valioso del libro.
Sin embargo, y tristemente debo decirlo, pienso que la prosa del autor es el problema real de la obra. Su historia siembra la curiosidad, pero sus palabras erradican el inter茅s. No me arrepiento de leer este libro, pero finalizo con la sensaci贸n de que me hubiera gustado conocer esta historia con las palabras de otro escritor.
Rese帽a completa m谩s adelante.
Esperaba un libro diferente.
No ha estado mal, pero tampoco ha estado cerca de ser una de mis lecturas favoritas. El m茅dico, de Noah Gordon, fue una lectura provechosa que me ha concientizado sobre las dificultades que se presentaban en la Edad Media con respecto a la medicina. Existieron muchos tab煤s, ignorancia y una tendencia al conformismo que imped铆a el progreso en esta 谩rea tan importante de una sociedad; un contexto excelente que alimenta la curiosidad del lector al hacernos teorizar sobre las formas como el protagonista 鈥攓ue tiene incorporada la chispa de la rebeld铆a鈥� va a romper las reglas. Ese es un aspecto muy valioso del libro.
Sin embargo, y tristemente debo decirlo, pienso que la prosa del autor es el problema real de la obra. Su historia siembra la curiosidad, pero sus palabras erradican el inter茅s. No me arrepiento de leer este libro, pero finalizo con la sensaci贸n de que me hubiera gustado conocer esta historia con las palabras de otro escritor.
Rese帽a completa m谩s adelante.
May 28, 2019
Un gran viaje, otro (interior) a煤n m谩s grande, un largo aprendizaje, un sue帽o por cumplir y un don maravilloso.
Enfermedades, muertes, aventuras, amores y 茅pica a raudales.
Millones de lectores satisfechos en todo el mundo y un libro que no te puedes perder.
Enfermedades, muertes, aventuras, amores y 茅pica a raudales.
Millones de lectores satisfechos en todo el mundo y un libro que no te puedes perder.
July 24, 2023
Una palabra serena a un hombre sensato vale m谩s que un a帽o de s煤plicas a un tonto.
Noah Gordon nos narra la historia de Robert Cole, un barbero/cirujano ingl茅s del siglo XI que queda hu茅rfano. A partir de este suceso, descubre que posee el 鈥渄on鈥� de percibir si alguien est谩 pr贸ximo a la muerte con solo tocarle.
Esto lo llevar谩 a encaminarse a un viaje a Persia (actual Ir谩n) para estudiar en la escuela de medicina m谩s importante de su 茅poca, bajo la tutela del sabio doctor Ibn Sina (basado en la vida real).
Este libro de ficci贸n hist贸rica cuenta con una interesante perspectiva sobre la resiliencia, la persecuci贸n religiosa, la fuerza de la pasi贸n y la vocaci贸n. Una historia que cautiva, absorbe y transporta, de tal forma que sin duda alguna est谩 en la cumbre de las novelas de este g茅nero.
Noah Gordon nos narra la historia de Robert Cole, un barbero/cirujano ingl茅s del siglo XI que queda hu茅rfano. A partir de este suceso, descubre que posee el 鈥渄on鈥� de percibir si alguien est谩 pr贸ximo a la muerte con solo tocarle.
Esto lo llevar谩 a encaminarse a un viaje a Persia (actual Ir谩n) para estudiar en la escuela de medicina m谩s importante de su 茅poca, bajo la tutela del sabio doctor Ibn Sina (basado en la vida real).
Este libro de ficci贸n hist贸rica cuenta con una interesante perspectiva sobre la resiliencia, la persecuci贸n religiosa, la fuerza de la pasi贸n y la vocaci贸n. Una historia que cautiva, absorbe y transporta, de tal forma que sin duda alguna est谩 en la cumbre de las novelas de este g茅nero.
April 2, 2008
Noah Gordon is my new favorite author. I read The Physician after I read The Last Jew. Both were phenomenal.
The Physician is long, but I read through it quickly. I could hardly put it down! The novel is set in the middle of the eleventh century. Gordon transports readers to another time, setting an ambience that feels authentic to the time period. The novel covers a wide span of geography, beginning in London, taking the reader throughout England and ultimately across Europe through Constantinople to Persia, then India, and back to London and ultimately to Scotland. The main character, Rob J. Cole, is orphaned in London and taken in by "Barber", a Barber surgeon, which is a doctor of sorts for the lowest classes. Rob J. also has a special gift, which he discovers just before his parents die - he can sense when people die. He struggles in his new role as a Barber surgeon (he has a hard time mastering juggling, which is vital to draw crowds) but eventually he becomes obsessed with the idea of healing people after he meets a Jewish Physician who can perform cataract surgery. After Barber dies, Rob J. decides to study in Ispahan, where the Jewish Physician studied, and learn from Abicenna, the premier physician of the time. The complication is that the Catholic Church prohibits Christians from studying in "heathen" institutions, so Rob J. must disguise himself as a Jew. Rob J. learned some Jewish ways during his travels and studies Persian and ends up passing as a Jew ignorant of the Jewish traditions. Eventually Rob J. becomes a physician only to discover that his skills are not wanted/respected in London, where he is suspected of possible witchcraft and he flees to Scotland where he can practice medicine in peace.
This novel is not only entertaining, but also makes the reader think. It raises many issues of religion and science and the relationship between the two. The reader also develops a strong sense of the fragility of life in this time period, of the difficulty of travel, of how much our world has progressed in 1000 years. Also, unlike most novels of this period, it gives a sense of the role of Jews in the Middle Ages. The Jewish system of travel is fascinating.
The Physician is long, but I read through it quickly. I could hardly put it down! The novel is set in the middle of the eleventh century. Gordon transports readers to another time, setting an ambience that feels authentic to the time period. The novel covers a wide span of geography, beginning in London, taking the reader throughout England and ultimately across Europe through Constantinople to Persia, then India, and back to London and ultimately to Scotland. The main character, Rob J. Cole, is orphaned in London and taken in by "Barber", a Barber surgeon, which is a doctor of sorts for the lowest classes. Rob J. also has a special gift, which he discovers just before his parents die - he can sense when people die. He struggles in his new role as a Barber surgeon (he has a hard time mastering juggling, which is vital to draw crowds) but eventually he becomes obsessed with the idea of healing people after he meets a Jewish Physician who can perform cataract surgery. After Barber dies, Rob J. decides to study in Ispahan, where the Jewish Physician studied, and learn from Abicenna, the premier physician of the time. The complication is that the Catholic Church prohibits Christians from studying in "heathen" institutions, so Rob J. must disguise himself as a Jew. Rob J. learned some Jewish ways during his travels and studies Persian and ends up passing as a Jew ignorant of the Jewish traditions. Eventually Rob J. becomes a physician only to discover that his skills are not wanted/respected in London, where he is suspected of possible witchcraft and he flees to Scotland where he can practice medicine in peace.
This novel is not only entertaining, but also makes the reader think. It raises many issues of religion and science and the relationship between the two. The reader also develops a strong sense of the fragility of life in this time period, of the difficulty of travel, of how much our world has progressed in 1000 years. Also, unlike most novels of this period, it gives a sense of the role of Jews in the Middle Ages. The Jewish system of travel is fascinating.
May 13, 2014
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兀賷丕乇 2010
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賵 丕賱丌賳 亘毓丿 賲乇賵乇 兀乇亘毓丞 兀毓賵丕賲 毓賱賶 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 兀丨亘 兀賳 兀囟賷賮 兀賲乇賷賳: 0
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賮賷 兀丨丿 賮氐賵賱 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 賷毓乇囟 賲爻兀賱丞 丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨 賵 丨賰賲賴丕 賵 賴賱 賰丕賳鬲 賲賵噩賵丿丞 賮賷 丕賱丨囟丕乇丞 丕賱廿爻賱丕賲賷丞 丨賯丕 兀賲 賰丕賳鬲 賲賲鬲賳毓丞... 賵 賲賳 丕賱賵丕囟丨 兀賳賴 賰丕賳 賴賳丕賰 禺賱丕賮 賲賳 丕賱賳丕丨賷丞 丕賱賳馗乇賷丞 亘賷賳 兀賯賵丕賱 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 兀賳賮爻賴賲 丕賱匕賷賳 鬲囟丕乇亘鬲 兀賯賵丕賱賴賲 賮賷 兀賰孬乇 賲賳 賲賵囟毓貙 賲孬賱 丕亘賳 丕賱賳賮賷爻 丕賱匕賷 匕賰乇 賮賷 賲賯丿賲丞 賰鬲丕亘賴 "賵 賯丿 氐丿賳丕 毓賳 賲亘丕卮乇丞 丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨 賵丕夭毓 丕賱卮乇賷毓丞 賵 賲丕 賮賷 兀禺賱丕賯賳丕 賲賳 丕賱乇丨賲丞" 孬賲 賮賷 賰鬲丕亘賴 賳賮爻賴 匕賰乇 賮賷 賲賵丕囟毓 賰孬賷乇丞 賲夭丕賵賱鬲賴 賱賱鬲卮乇賷丨: "丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨 賷賰匕亘 賲丕 賯丕賱賵賴... 賮廿賳 丕賱賲乇丕乇丞 卮丕賴丿賳丕賴丕 賲乇丕乇丕... 賮賰孬賷乇丕 賲丕 乇兀賷鬲 丕賱兀賲乇 毓賱賶 禺賱丕賮 賲丕 丕丿毓賵賴 兀賳賴 氐丕丿賮賵賴 亘丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨 丕賱匕賷 賷丿毓賵賳 兀賳賴 鬲賰乇乇 賱賴賲 噩賲賷毓丕..."
賵 兀賲丕 丕賱賲爻鬲卮乇賯賵賳 賮賯丿 丕禺鬲丕乇 賲毓馗賲賴賲 兀賳賴 賰丕賳 兀賲乇丕 賲賲賳賵毓丕 賮賷 丕賱丨囟丕乇丞 丕賱廿爻賱丕賲賷丞貙 亘賷賳賲丕 賱賲 賷鬲賮賯 亘毓囟 丕賱賲爻鬲卮乇賯賷賳 賵 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱亘丕丨孬賷賳 丕賱毓乇亘 賲毓 賴匕丕貙 賵 丕毓鬲亘乇賵丕 兀賳賴 賰丕賳 兀賲乇丕 賲鬲丕丨丕 賵 賲賵噩賵丿丕 ... 賵 丕賱亘丕丨孬 賷乇噩丨 兀賳賴 賱賲 賷賰賳 賲賲鬲賳毓丕貙 賮賱賷爻 賴賳丕賰 賲賳 賮鬲锟斤拷賶 丿賷賳賷丞 氐乇賷丨丞 亘丕賱賲賳毓 賵 丕賱鬲丨乇賷賲 賵 賱丕 賵乇丿 毓賳 丕賱毓賱賲丕亍 丕賱賰亘丕乇 卮賷亍 賲賳 賴匕丕貙 亘賱 賰丕賳 賷賳馗乇 賱賱鬲卮乇賷丨 賳馗乇 賲賵毓馗丞 賵 廿噩賱丕賱 賵匕賰乇 丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 賱亘毓囟 丕賱毓賱賲丕亍 賰丕賱睾夭丕賱賷 賵 丕賱賮禺乇 丕賱乇丕夭賷 丕賱匕賷 賱賴 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨 賲賳 丕賱乇兀爻 廿賱賶 丕賱丨賱賯 賵 丨丿賷孬賴賲 毓賳 毓馗賲丞 丕賱禺賱賯 賮賷 鬲卮乇賷丨 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳貙 賵 亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賮賱賷爻 賴賳丕賰 賲丕 賷禺卮丕賴 丕賱胤亘賷亘 賲賳 賲賵丕噩賴丞 賲毓 丕賱卮乇賷毓丞 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱爻賷丕賯貙 賮囟賱丕 毓賳 兀賳 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 兀賳賮爻賴賲 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 賰丕賳賵丕 毓賱賲丕亍 亘丕賱卮乇賷毓丞 賵 亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賴賲 賷賮鬲賵賳 賱兀賳賮爻賴賲 亘兀賳賮爻賴賲... 賵 廿賳賲丕 爻亘亘 鬲囟丕乇亘 兀賯賵丕賱 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 賰賲丕 賷丨賱賱 丕賱亘丕丨孬 兀賳 噩夭亍丕 賲賳 丕賱丕賲鬲賳丕毓 賰丕賳 鬲賯賱賷丿丕 賲鬲亘毓丕 賱兀胤亘丕亍 丕賱賷賵賳丕賳 丕賱匕賷賳 賷丨乇賲賵賳賴 賵 丕爻鬲賲乇 丕賱鬲賯賱賷丿 賱賰賱 賲賳 兀鬲賶 亘毓丿賴賲貙 賵 丕賱丌禺乇 賴賵 禺賵賮 賲賳 爻賵賯丞 丕賱賳丕爻 賵 丕賱毓丕賲丞... 亘賲毓賳賶 兀賳賴 賰丕賳 毓賱賲丕 毓賲賱賷丕 賷賲丕乇爻賵賳賴 賰噩夭亍 賲賳 丕賱賲賴賳丞 賵 賷賵乇丿賵賳賴 賮賷 賰鬲亘 丕賱丕禺鬲氐丕氐貙 賵 賱賰賳賴 賱賷爻 卮賷卅丕 賷鬲亘爻胤賵賳 亘賴 兀賲丕賲 丕賱毓丕賲丞... 0
賵 賴丕 賴賵 賳氐 氐乇賷丨 亘丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨 賲賳 賲賵賮賯 丕賱丿賷賳 丕賱亘睾丿丕丿賷:
"賵 賲賳 毓噩賷亘 賲丕 卮丕賴丿賳丕 兀賳 噩賲丕毓丞 賲賲賳 賷賳鬲丕亘賳賷 賮賷 丕賱胤亘 賵氐賱賵丕 廿賱賶 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨貙 賮賰丕賳 賷毓爻乇 毓賱賶 兀賮賴丕賲賴賲貙 賮兀禺亘乇賳丕 兀賳 亘丕賱賲賯爻 _丕爻賲 賲賰丕賳 亘丕賱賯丕賴乇丞_ 鬲賱丕 賮賷賴 乇賲賲 賰孬賷乇丞貙 賮禺乇噩賳丕 廿賱賷賴 賮乇兀賷賳丕 鬲賱丕 賲賳 乇賲賲 賱賴 賲爻丕賮丞 胤賵賷賱丞 賷賰丕丿 賷賰賵賳 鬲乇丕亘賴 兀賯賱 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲賶貙 亘賴 賳丨丿爻 賲丕 賷馗賴乇 賲賳賴賲 賱賱毓賷丕賳 亘毓卮乇賷賳 兀賱賮丕 賮氐丕毓丿丕貙 賵 賴賲 毓賱賶 胤亘賯丕鬲 賮賷 賯乇亘 丕賱毓賴丿 賵 亘毓丿賴." 0
丕賱孬丕賳賷: 兀賳賷 卮丕賴丿鬲 丕賱賮賷賱賲 丕賱賲賯鬲亘爻 賲賳 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱匕賷 兀賳鬲噩 毓丕賲 2013
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兀賷丕乇 2014
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丕賱鬲毓賱賷賯 丕賱爻丕亘賯
A novel鈥� rather lives full of colors, events, suspense and information. It is the story of the British orphan Rob. J from the 11th century who became a barber-surgeon, who dreamt to study medicine under Avicenna supervision. This was a condemned matter and a crime punished by death, at times when heretics were burnt. He disguised as a Jew to manage the matter.
He made you live everything in the novel with him for the first time鈥� Everything seemed bizarre and different, frightening and severe, rough and disgusting, charming and astonishing鈥�
The novel presents variety: Jewish traditions in a vivid way, some of Islamic instructions through the eyes of a disgusted western Christian, the occidental barbarity and the oriental savageness, the total ignorance and loathing the other _regardless who or where_, the colorful clothes and places, geography, medicine and its instruments, drugs and herbs between East and West, and tools of entertainment and war鈥� All those contained by the novel鈥�
Since Orient is one of the important themes, the familiar orientalistic superior tone is exist in the novel鈥� In an orient built on eunuchs, cuckolds, gays, savages, obscene figures, believers in superstitions, sunk in the hidden pleaser of harem, a question emerge in your mind; is there any one who is decent or respectful?
It seemed nobody like that but the Jew; the Jew was the only one who seemed loving to his family, enlightened, peaceful, high-minded, while the Muslim was the lewd and wild. You wonder how such people made a civilization, medicine and maristan? Rob J. realized that after the Greeks brilliance illuminated all of medicine, the world fell into darkness. P.504. You ask yourself what about Muslims achievements such maristan, or even Ibn Sina whom Rob J. fought the world to reach? Well, it seemed to Rob that it was not more than imitating the Greeks.
Eventually, of course as usual, the European Rob J. proved that he was the most open-minded and developed among all.
I know it is almost impossible to read a book or novel about Orient or Muslims without this arrogant tone. However, in this novel it seemed extra dissonance, because it was the tone of a 20th century man, i.e, the writer, not Rob j. who came from the darkness of medieval; an environment of total ignorance and miserable poverty
And because of this snobby orientalistic tone I deprive the novel of two stars.
Regardless what mentioned before, it is an exotic breathtaking novel, soaked with adventures. The writer is a real storyteller.
I want to add a piece of information I've discovered recently, that it is not true what the novel said about that there was no anatomy of the human body in medieval Islamic society, and it was considered as a crime, because for examples there were the contribution of Ibn al-Nafis who described the movement of blood through the pulmonary transit, and made illustrations, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi who described the bones of the lower jaw and sacrum, and others. Well I know that novels are not authentic sources of information, because they are imagined, however they make you want to know more about the subject. And that what happened in my case夭
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賵 兀賲丕 丕賱賲爻鬲卮乇賯賵賳 賮賯丿 丕禺鬲丕乇 賲毓馗賲賴賲 兀賳賴 賰丕賳 兀賲乇丕 賲賲賳賵毓丕 賮賷 丕賱丨囟丕乇丞 丕賱廿爻賱丕賲賷丞貙 亘賷賳賲丕 賱賲 賷鬲賮賯 亘毓囟 丕賱賲爻鬲卮乇賯賷賳 賵 賰孬賷乇 賲賳 丕賱亘丕丨孬賷賳 丕賱毓乇亘 賲毓 賴匕丕貙 賵 丕毓鬲亘乇賵丕 兀賳賴 賰丕賳 兀賲乇丕 賲鬲丕丨丕 賵 賲賵噩賵丿丕 ... 賵 丕賱亘丕丨孬 賷乇噩丨 兀賳賴 賱賲 賷賰賳 賲賲鬲賳毓丕貙 賮賱賷爻 賴賳丕賰 賲賳 賮鬲锟斤拷賶 丿賷賳賷丞 氐乇賷丨丞 亘丕賱賲賳毓 賵 丕賱鬲丨乇賷賲 賵 賱丕 賵乇丿 毓賳 丕賱毓賱賲丕亍 丕賱賰亘丕乇 卮賷亍 賲賳 賴匕丕貙 亘賱 賰丕賳 賷賳馗乇 賱賱鬲卮乇賷丨 賳馗乇 賲賵毓馗丞 賵 廿噩賱丕賱 賵匕賰乇 丕賯鬲亘丕爻丕鬲 賱亘毓囟 丕賱毓賱賲丕亍 賰丕賱睾夭丕賱賷 賵 丕賱賮禺乇 丕賱乇丕夭賷 丕賱匕賷 賱賴 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨 賲賳 丕賱乇兀爻 廿賱賶 丕賱丨賱賯 賵 丨丿賷孬賴賲 毓賳 毓馗賲丞 丕賱禺賱賯 賮賷 鬲卮乇賷丨 丕賱廿賳爻丕賳貙 賵 亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賮賱賷爻 賴賳丕賰 賲丕 賷禺卮丕賴 丕賱胤亘賷亘 賲賳 賲賵丕噩賴丞 賲毓 丕賱卮乇賷毓丞 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱爻賷丕賯貙 賮囟賱丕 毓賳 兀賳 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 兀賳賮爻賴賲 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮鬲乇丞 賰丕賳賵丕 毓賱賲丕亍 亘丕賱卮乇賷毓丞 賵 亘丕賱鬲丕賱賷 賴賲 賷賮鬲賵賳 賱兀賳賮爻賴賲 亘兀賳賮爻賴賲... 賵 廿賳賲丕 爻亘亘 鬲囟丕乇亘 兀賯賵丕賱 丕賱兀胤亘丕亍 賰賲丕 賷丨賱賱 丕賱亘丕丨孬 兀賳 噩夭亍丕 賲賳 丕賱丕賲鬲賳丕毓 賰丕賳 鬲賯賱賷丿丕 賲鬲亘毓丕 賱兀胤亘丕亍 丕賱賷賵賳丕賳 丕賱匕賷賳 賷丨乇賲賵賳賴 賵 丕爻鬲賲乇 丕賱鬲賯賱賷丿 賱賰賱 賲賳 兀鬲賶 亘毓丿賴賲貙 賵 丕賱丌禺乇 賴賵 禺賵賮 賲賳 爻賵賯丞 丕賱賳丕爻 賵 丕賱毓丕賲丞... 亘賲毓賳賶 兀賳賴 賰丕賳 毓賱賲丕 毓賲賱賷丕 賷賲丕乇爻賵賳賴 賰噩夭亍 賲賳 丕賱賲賴賳丞 賵 賷賵乇丿賵賳賴 賮賷 賰鬲亘 丕賱丕禺鬲氐丕氐貙 賵 賱賰賳賴 賱賷爻 卮賷卅丕 賷鬲亘爻胤賵賳 亘賴 兀賲丕賲 丕賱毓丕賲丞... 0
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"賵 賲賳 毓噩賷亘 賲丕 卮丕賴丿賳丕 兀賳 噩賲丕毓丞 賲賲賳 賷賳鬲丕亘賳賷 賮賷 丕賱胤亘 賵氐賱賵丕 廿賱賶 賰鬲丕亘 丕賱鬲卮乇賷丨貙 賮賰丕賳 賷毓爻乇 毓賱賶 兀賮賴丕賲賴賲貙 賮兀禺亘乇賳丕 兀賳 亘丕賱賲賯爻 _丕爻賲 賲賰丕賳 亘丕賱賯丕賴乇丞_ 鬲賱丕 賮賷賴 乇賲賲 賰孬賷乇丞貙 賮禺乇噩賳丕 廿賱賷賴 賮乇兀賷賳丕 鬲賱丕 賲賳 乇賲賲 賱賴 賲爻丕賮丞 胤賵賷賱丞 賷賰丕丿 賷賰賵賳 鬲乇丕亘賴 兀賯賱 賲賳 丕賱賲賵鬲賶貙 亘賴 賳丨丿爻 賲丕 賷馗賴乇 賲賳賴賲 賱賱毓賷丕賳 亘毓卮乇賷賳 兀賱賮丕 賮氐丕毓丿丕貙 賵 賴賲 毓賱賶 胤亘賯丕鬲 賮賷 賯乇亘 丕賱毓賴丿 賵 亘毓丿賴." 0
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兀賷丕乇 2014
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丕賱鬲毓賱賷賯 丕賱爻丕亘賯
A novel鈥� rather lives full of colors, events, suspense and information. It is the story of the British orphan Rob. J from the 11th century who became a barber-surgeon, who dreamt to study medicine under Avicenna supervision. This was a condemned matter and a crime punished by death, at times when heretics were burnt. He disguised as a Jew to manage the matter.
He made you live everything in the novel with him for the first time鈥� Everything seemed bizarre and different, frightening and severe, rough and disgusting, charming and astonishing鈥�
The novel presents variety: Jewish traditions in a vivid way, some of Islamic instructions through the eyes of a disgusted western Christian, the occidental barbarity and the oriental savageness, the total ignorance and loathing the other _regardless who or where_, the colorful clothes and places, geography, medicine and its instruments, drugs and herbs between East and West, and tools of entertainment and war鈥� All those contained by the novel鈥�
Since Orient is one of the important themes, the familiar orientalistic superior tone is exist in the novel鈥� In an orient built on eunuchs, cuckolds, gays, savages, obscene figures, believers in superstitions, sunk in the hidden pleaser of harem, a question emerge in your mind; is there any one who is decent or respectful?
It seemed nobody like that but the Jew; the Jew was the only one who seemed loving to his family, enlightened, peaceful, high-minded, while the Muslim was the lewd and wild. You wonder how such people made a civilization, medicine and maristan? Rob J. realized that after the Greeks brilliance illuminated all of medicine, the world fell into darkness. P.504. You ask yourself what about Muslims achievements such maristan, or even Ibn Sina whom Rob J. fought the world to reach? Well, it seemed to Rob that it was not more than imitating the Greeks.
Eventually, of course as usual, the European Rob J. proved that he was the most open-minded and developed among all.
I know it is almost impossible to read a book or novel about Orient or Muslims without this arrogant tone. However, in this novel it seemed extra dissonance, because it was the tone of a 20th century man, i.e, the writer, not Rob j. who came from the darkness of medieval; an environment of total ignorance and miserable poverty
And because of this snobby orientalistic tone I deprive the novel of two stars.
Regardless what mentioned before, it is an exotic breathtaking novel, soaked with adventures. The writer is a real storyteller.
I want to add a piece of information I've discovered recently, that it is not true what the novel said about that there was no anatomy of the human body in medieval Islamic society, and it was considered as a crime, because for examples there were the contribution of Ibn al-Nafis who described the movement of blood through the pulmonary transit, and made illustrations, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi who described the bones of the lower jaw and sacrum, and others. Well I know that novels are not authentic sources of information, because they are imagined, however they make you want to know more about the subject. And that what happened in my case夭
April 22, 2014
Mi querido padre, que es muy amante de la novela hist贸rica, me recomend贸 hace much铆simo tiempo que leyera este libro, pero viendo las casi 800 p谩ginas que lo componen, me daba "pereza-miedo-vaguer铆a"
Pensaba que iba a ser un aburrimiento en may煤sculas por el tiempo en que Noah lo escribi贸, mucho drama, mucho sufrimiento y tal.
Pero terminado, s贸lo puedo decir:
Este libro es una oda a la superaci贸n, a la lucha constante de un hombre para conseguir cumplir su sue帽o, que es dedicarse a la medicina.
Y es que, pese a todos los obst谩culos, las diferencias 茅ticas, religiosas y culturales que Rob se encuentra en su camino, no hacen otra cosa, que alentarlo para cumplir su objetivo.
Pensaba que iba a ser un aburrimiento en may煤sculas por el tiempo en que Noah lo escribi贸, mucho drama, mucho sufrimiento y tal.
Pero terminado, s贸lo puedo decir:
Este libro es una oda a la superaci贸n, a la lucha constante de un hombre para conseguir cumplir su sue帽o, que es dedicarse a la medicina.
Y es que, pese a todos los obst谩culos, las diferencias 茅ticas, religiosas y culturales que Rob se encuentra en su camino, no hacen otra cosa, que alentarlo para cumplir su objetivo.
March 30, 2022
隆Magn铆fica novela de principio a fin! 隆Mi favorita de todos los tiempos!
"El m茅dico" es una novela de ficci贸n-hist贸rica ambientada en el siglo XI que cuenta la historia de Robert J. Cole, un barbero cirujano ingl茅s, que se queda hu茅rfano tras la muerte de sus padres por una extra帽a enfermedad, lo que lo hace descubrir su don de percibir si alguien est谩 pr贸ximo a la muerte con solo tocarlo, lo que lo llevar谩 a realizar una 茅pica traves铆a por la Europa medieval hasta Persia (hoy Ir谩n), en pos de estudiar en la escuela de medicina m谩s importante de la epoca.
Esta novela la he leido dos veces en mi vida, la primera vez cu谩ndo adolescente y luego cuando adulto, y a煤n a la fecha me parece una obra maestra insuperable. La prosa de Gordon es sencilla, instructiva y sus cap铆tulos tienen el balance perfecto entre descripci贸n y desarrollo, transmitiendote de manera perfecta todo el amor a la medicina que siente su protagonista, c贸mo su enorme resiliencia al verse enfrentado a un mundo, que en lo que en cuanto a medicina se trataba, viv铆a sumido en la ignorancia y superstici贸n. Es un libro que a pesar de su extensi贸n recomiendo al mil porcien leer ya que en ning煤n momento se hace pesado o aburrido, la cantidad de retos y vivencias que enfrenta nuestro protagonista son tales que siempre hay algo que logra mantener nuestro inter茅s.
Por otra parte, s茅 que tambien se hizo una pelicula de 茅sta novela, aunque de ella no puedo hablar mucho debido a que nunca la he visto. Siempre he sentido temor de que me termine manchando la gran estima que le tengo a esta novela.
隆Para m铆 una obra maestra en toda regla!
隆搁别肠辞尘别苍诲补诲铆蝉颈尘补!
"El m茅dico" es una novela de ficci贸n-hist贸rica ambientada en el siglo XI que cuenta la historia de Robert J. Cole, un barbero cirujano ingl茅s, que se queda hu茅rfano tras la muerte de sus padres por una extra帽a enfermedad, lo que lo hace descubrir su don de percibir si alguien est谩 pr贸ximo a la muerte con solo tocarlo, lo que lo llevar谩 a realizar una 茅pica traves铆a por la Europa medieval hasta Persia (hoy Ir谩n), en pos de estudiar en la escuela de medicina m谩s importante de la epoca.
Esta novela la he leido dos veces en mi vida, la primera vez cu谩ndo adolescente y luego cuando adulto, y a煤n a la fecha me parece una obra maestra insuperable. La prosa de Gordon es sencilla, instructiva y sus cap铆tulos tienen el balance perfecto entre descripci贸n y desarrollo, transmitiendote de manera perfecta todo el amor a la medicina que siente su protagonista, c贸mo su enorme resiliencia al verse enfrentado a un mundo, que en lo que en cuanto a medicina se trataba, viv铆a sumido en la ignorancia y superstici贸n. Es un libro que a pesar de su extensi贸n recomiendo al mil porcien leer ya que en ning煤n momento se hace pesado o aburrido, la cantidad de retos y vivencias que enfrenta nuestro protagonista son tales que siempre hay algo que logra mantener nuestro inter茅s.
Por otra parte, s茅 que tambien se hizo una pelicula de 茅sta novela, aunque de ella no puedo hablar mucho debido a que nunca la he visto. Siempre he sentido temor de que me termine manchando la gran estima que le tengo a esta novela.
隆Para m铆 una obra maestra en toda regla!
隆搁别肠辞尘别苍诲补诲铆蝉颈尘补!
October 11, 2015
I generously give 3.5 stars despite the often farcical historical howlers this tale is flooded by because the storytelling is very good. DO NOT READ THIS BOOK and expect to be informed about the era allegedly covered.
I had read it many years ago, around age 10 I think and it was this book that generated my lifelong interest in the history of medecine. To be fair to the author I believe the parts covering Judaism and Arabic medicine of the period are broadly accurate but probably no more than that, despite NG's apparent research. Ibn Sina did exist but died in 1037.
I do note the date of publication and historical fiction at that time was apt to have less expected of it, to my mind.
So, a few of the errors I encountered:
Rob J Cole - the main character has a name that would never have been used in England at that time. Even Robert was rare, middle names did not exist for the masses and even today I have never met anyone using their name as a shortened first name plus middle initial in Britian - that is an Americanism. Finally, humble people also did not have surnames but were known by what they (or their father) did. Rob J's father was a carpenter so where did Cole come from? This absolutely basic set of errors sets the tone for the whole book!
Witch pricking and the whole set of beliefs about witches sounds straight out of the Salem witch trials! There is little record of witchcraft in historical record and most of them were wise women, not barber-surgeons, which was an actual profession, albeit ineffective. I think the fear that he and Barber would be thought witches was overstated and the incident from Barber's past was unlikely. The whole issue belonged more in the 16th century or later. An accusation of heresy was a more likely threat if their practice stepped outside the accepted domain.
The language Rob J studies so diligently is no Parsi but Farsi. A Parsi is actually from India and is a Zoroastrian.
Travelling barber-surgeons did exist in England, being first recorded at exactly the time of the novel. However Barber carried out the job more like a travelling quack in the US in a much later era.
The basic premise of the story was impossible - there is no way Rob J could have impersonated a Jew at that time and for that long and without really knowing how to be a Jew! Rob J thought like a modern man not a man of the 11th century. To have even conceived of doing what he did was beyond unlikely. NG also imputed an impossible freedom to women and Mary's father would never have considered a marriage between them as she was socially above Rob J.
Finally (but far from exhaustively!) he would not have been able to practice back in England/Scotland BECAUSE HE WAS A CHRISTIAN and the reason medicine back then was so basic in Christian countries was that vivisection was considered heresy (which was true for many more centuries). The merest hint that he had looked inside a body would have probably ended in him being killed as a heretic.
Here endeth my narrative!
I had read it many years ago, around age 10 I think and it was this book that generated my lifelong interest in the history of medecine. To be fair to the author I believe the parts covering Judaism and Arabic medicine of the period are broadly accurate but probably no more than that, despite NG's apparent research. Ibn Sina did exist but died in 1037.
I do note the date of publication and historical fiction at that time was apt to have less expected of it, to my mind.
So, a few of the errors I encountered:
Rob J Cole - the main character has a name that would never have been used in England at that time. Even Robert was rare, middle names did not exist for the masses and even today I have never met anyone using their name as a shortened first name plus middle initial in Britian - that is an Americanism. Finally, humble people also did not have surnames but were known by what they (or their father) did. Rob J's father was a carpenter so where did Cole come from? This absolutely basic set of errors sets the tone for the whole book!
Witch pricking and the whole set of beliefs about witches sounds straight out of the Salem witch trials! There is little record of witchcraft in historical record and most of them were wise women, not barber-surgeons, which was an actual profession, albeit ineffective. I think the fear that he and Barber would be thought witches was overstated and the incident from Barber's past was unlikely. The whole issue belonged more in the 16th century or later. An accusation of heresy was a more likely threat if their practice stepped outside the accepted domain.
The language Rob J studies so diligently is no Parsi but Farsi. A Parsi is actually from India and is a Zoroastrian.
Travelling barber-surgeons did exist in England, being first recorded at exactly the time of the novel. However Barber carried out the job more like a travelling quack in the US in a much later era.
The basic premise of the story was impossible - there is no way Rob J could have impersonated a Jew at that time and for that long and without really knowing how to be a Jew! Rob J thought like a modern man not a man of the 11th century. To have even conceived of doing what he did was beyond unlikely. NG also imputed an impossible freedom to women and Mary's father would never have considered a marriage between them as she was socially above Rob J.
Finally (but far from exhaustively!) he would not have been able to practice back in England/Scotland BECAUSE HE WAS A CHRISTIAN and the reason medicine back then was so basic in Christian countries was that vivisection was considered heresy (which was true for many more centuries). The merest hint that he had looked inside a body would have probably ended in him being killed as a heretic.
Here endeth my narrative!
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September 22, 2008I鈥檓 a modern military history buff, and until I read this book I hadn鈥檛 had the slightest intrest in medieval social portraits. Well, Noah Gordon opened my eyes. I travelled through medieval Europe with Rob J. Cole (as I would later do with his descendant Shaman in America) all the way to Persia. How people dressed, ate, how they lived, the relationship with the Jewish community. The remarkable writing style ensured that the length of the book merely made it more appealing. The longer I spent reading it, the more I enjoyed it. So much so that I was saddened when the book was drew to its end. Gordon鈥檚 ability to bring his characters and era to life has been a source of wonder and inspiration for me. It definitely ranks among my favorite books of all time
December 16, 2018
This is simply beautiful historical fiction and I was hooked right from the get-go. The plot was exciting throughout. The protagonist was one that I rooted for 鈥� something that I seem to need in books and movies. I have to root for somebody!
It鈥檚 the story of an English orphan and the trials and difficulties that he had to endure to become a physician in 11th century. I hardly knew anything about the book before reading it and was pleasantly surprised to read all that about the early Persian Empire 鈥� my place of birth. My dad spent some of his happiest childhood years in in some of the places mentioned.
One of the characters, Avicenna (Ibn Sina 鈥� 980-1037), is someone that Persians revere. He was an absolute genius, a polymath, the father of early modern medicine, and one of the most significant astronomers, thinkers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.
This woodcut from an early 15th Century Latin language medical shows the three great ancient teachers of medicine: Galen (Roman), Avicenna (Persian), and Hippocrates (Greek).
The book has been made into a movie, which I have yet to see.
I felt that at times it was a bit too wordy and it seemed to stagnate somewhat in the middle, but it picked up wonderfully later. I won鈥檛 be reading the rest of the books in this trilogy, since I have read the reviews and it seems that they鈥檙e quite disappointing, or at least the third one is. If you like historical epics and sagas, the sort of books like 鈥淧illars of the Earth鈥� and 鈥淕one with the Wind鈥�, you may enjoy this one also.
Some of my favorite quotes:
鈥淢ankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.鈥�
鈥淓ven for a child, he felt, involving oneself with the world鈥檚 suffering had to be a voluntary act.鈥�
It鈥檚 the story of an English orphan and the trials and difficulties that he had to endure to become a physician in 11th century. I hardly knew anything about the book before reading it and was pleasantly surprised to read all that about the early Persian Empire 鈥� my place of birth. My dad spent some of his happiest childhood years in in some of the places mentioned.
One of the characters, Avicenna (Ibn Sina 鈥� 980-1037), is someone that Persians revere. He was an absolute genius, a polymath, the father of early modern medicine, and one of the most significant astronomers, thinkers, and writers of the Islamic Golden Age.
This woodcut from an early 15th Century Latin language medical shows the three great ancient teachers of medicine: Galen (Roman), Avicenna (Persian), and Hippocrates (Greek).
The book has been made into a movie, which I have yet to see.
I felt that at times it was a bit too wordy and it seemed to stagnate somewhat in the middle, but it picked up wonderfully later. I won鈥檛 be reading the rest of the books in this trilogy, since I have read the reviews and it seems that they鈥檙e quite disappointing, or at least the third one is. If you like historical epics and sagas, the sort of books like 鈥淧illars of the Earth鈥� and 鈥淕one with the Wind鈥�, you may enjoy this one also.
Some of my favorite quotes:
鈥淢ankind is close to savagery and must live by rules. If not, we would sink into our own animal nature and perish.鈥�
鈥淓ven for a child, he felt, involving oneself with the world鈥檚 suffering had to be a voluntary act.鈥�
July 13, 2021
Me cuesta mucho hacer una rese帽a de este gran libro, decid铆 releerlo porque quiero seguir con la trilogia, y hace tiempo que lo lei.
La historia nos cuenta la vida de un joven, Robert Jeremy Cole, desde la primera pagina el libro te engancha por como empieza, la muerte de sus dos padres en un corto periodo de tiempo y la adopci贸n por parte de otras personas de sus hermanos, hacen que se quede solo, y que gracias a ello inicie un viaje para luchar por lo que mas quiere, y mas desea, ayudar a las personas, curandolas y sanandolas.
El libro esta dividido en siete partes, en las que cada una contara una parte de la vida de Jeremy, iremos creciendo con el seg煤n avanzamos en la historia. Comenzar谩 con nueve a帽os, siendo un cirujano-barbero, con un tutor que le ense帽ara de todo y que aprender谩 de el a vivir, viajando por pueblos para ganarse la comida, haciendo espect谩culos, y sanando鈥�
Pero cuando su maestro muere, decide que el quiere seguir creciendo y que su sue帽o es ser m茅dico, el mejor y aprender del mejor, lo que emprender谩 un viaje a Persia, donde estar谩 el mejor m茅dico y la mejor escuela. Un viaje peligroso, lleno de aventuras, lleno de aprendizaje鈥�
Lo mejor del libro es la gran ambientaci贸n, pues Rob comienza su viaje en Londres, y para llegar a Persia tendr谩 que viajar por infinidad de pa铆ses, los cuales est谩n super bien descritos, contados con hechos hist贸ricos y religiosos, lo que har谩 que aprendas y te empapes de muchos datos super interesantes.
Algo mas a destacar son los personajes, es cierto que hay much铆simos personajes, pero los principales son los que se te quedan, con los que empatizas, con una gran variedad cultural, viviendo con ellos lo que era el racismo por ser lo que eras, y las diferencias entre ser un cristiano, un musulm谩n o un jud铆o en aquella 茅poca.
Me quedo con la moraleja de este gran libro, y es que si quieres algo luches por ello, cueste lo que cueste y el tiempo que se necesite porque todo tiene su recompensa. Asique recomiendo este libro, a todos, te guste o no la literatura hist贸rica, un gran libro para aprender y para disfrutar.
La historia nos cuenta la vida de un joven, Robert Jeremy Cole, desde la primera pagina el libro te engancha por como empieza, la muerte de sus dos padres en un corto periodo de tiempo y la adopci贸n por parte de otras personas de sus hermanos, hacen que se quede solo, y que gracias a ello inicie un viaje para luchar por lo que mas quiere, y mas desea, ayudar a las personas, curandolas y sanandolas.
El libro esta dividido en siete partes, en las que cada una contara una parte de la vida de Jeremy, iremos creciendo con el seg煤n avanzamos en la historia. Comenzar谩 con nueve a帽os, siendo un cirujano-barbero, con un tutor que le ense帽ara de todo y que aprender谩 de el a vivir, viajando por pueblos para ganarse la comida, haciendo espect谩culos, y sanando鈥�
Pero cuando su maestro muere, decide que el quiere seguir creciendo y que su sue帽o es ser m茅dico, el mejor y aprender del mejor, lo que emprender谩 un viaje a Persia, donde estar谩 el mejor m茅dico y la mejor escuela. Un viaje peligroso, lleno de aventuras, lleno de aprendizaje鈥�
Lo mejor del libro es la gran ambientaci贸n, pues Rob comienza su viaje en Londres, y para llegar a Persia tendr谩 que viajar por infinidad de pa铆ses, los cuales est谩n super bien descritos, contados con hechos hist贸ricos y religiosos, lo que har谩 que aprendas y te empapes de muchos datos super interesantes.
Algo mas a destacar son los personajes, es cierto que hay much铆simos personajes, pero los principales son los que se te quedan, con los que empatizas, con una gran variedad cultural, viviendo con ellos lo que era el racismo por ser lo que eras, y las diferencias entre ser un cristiano, un musulm谩n o un jud铆o en aquella 茅poca.
Me quedo con la moraleja de este gran libro, y es que si quieres algo luches por ello, cueste lo que cueste y el tiempo que se necesite porque todo tiene su recompensa. Asique recomiendo este libro, a todos, te guste o no la literatura hist贸rica, un gran libro para aprender y para disfrutar.
December 5, 2011
I love historical fiction. I love to learn about religion in historical fiction. I loved this book!
This book takes place during the 11th century in Europe. It is about a Christian man who disguises himself as a Jew in order to go to a Muslim school of Medicine in the Middle East. It was so interesting to learn how these three major religions interacted with each other during that time in history.
There is one problem with the book though: there is a lot of sexually explicit content. Since this book talks about most of the details if Robert Cole's life,it throws that in there as well.
This book takes place during the 11th century in Europe. It is about a Christian man who disguises himself as a Jew in order to go to a Muslim school of Medicine in the Middle East. It was so interesting to learn how these three major religions interacted with each other during that time in history.
There is one problem with the book though: there is a lot of sexually explicit content. Since this book talks about most of the details if Robert Cole's life,it throws that in there as well.
July 9, 2020
Nos 鈥渙bligaron鈥� a leerlo en la Universidad (estudi茅 Farmacia) y me alucinaba que mis compa帽eros leyeran taaaaan poca literatura porque yo me lanc茅 a por 茅l y lo recuerdo con tant铆simo cari帽o, que el profe se convirti贸 en mi favorito siempre.
Y fuera de los recuerdos mo帽a, es que es buen铆simo c贸mo describe los inicios de la medicina forense y lo prohibid铆simos que estaban los avances y el miedo quedaba lo diferente por estar todo bajo las supersticiones y religiones.
Y fuera de los recuerdos mo帽a, es que es buen铆simo c贸mo describe los inicios de la medicina forense y lo prohibid铆simos que estaban los avances y el miedo quedaba lo diferente por estar todo bajo las supersticiones y religiones.
April 16, 2023
5 Estrellazas 隆Qu茅 novel贸n! Me ha encantado. Hac铆a a帽os que no le铆a una novela hist贸rica, a secas. Gracias a un reto literario me anim茅 a leer 茅ste libro, una de las novelas hist贸ricas m谩s sonadas del mundo y me ha fascinado entera.
Supongo que el haberla tenido relegada durante tanto tiempo han sido las 900 p谩ginas que tiene, un tocho enorme para haberla le铆do en formato de bolsillo. Y pese al poco tiempo que tengo para leer, he hecho el esfuerzo de continuar cap铆tulo a cap铆tulo y sin desanimarme porque cuanto m谩s le铆a, m谩s me gustaba.
A su vez tambi茅n es lo primero que leo de Noah Gordon, y su prosa, tan directa e impersonal me ha gustado bastante para el desarrollo de la trama. Hace muchos a帽os, vi la pel铆cula en el cine, pero no me pareci贸 gran cosa y a煤n as铆 mi madre me animaba a leerlo por eso de que el libro es mejor. 隆Y vaya si es mejor!
Noah Gordon nos lleva a la Inglaterra del siglo XI, antes de la conquista normanda. Rob J. Cole es un ni帽o de Londres, hijo de un carpintero, pero en 茅l mora un poderoso don: es capaz con el tacto de saber cu谩nto le queda de vida a una persona, y 茅ste don entra en 茅l cuando su madre muere de parto. Posteriormente muere su padre, y en 茅sa 茅poca tan convulsa y cruel para los hu茅rfanos, Robert es separado de sus hermanos cuando estos son adoptados por otros vecinos.
Para no acabar como esclavo o algo mucho peor, con 9 a帽os, Robert conoce a Barber un cirujano barbero, m谩s de charlat谩n y chantajista que de m茅dico, que lo adopta para tenerlo como ayudante y aprendiz.
En sus primeros a帽os junto a Barber, Rob no est谩 realmente decidido a ser m茅dico, se conforma con ir de pueblo en pueblo junto a su mentor, vender sus p贸cimas curativas, sacar dientes y reparar peque帽os cortes. Pero poco a poco Robert se ir谩 interesando m谩s por la sanaci贸n, sobre todo cuando conoce a un jud铆o capaz de obrar milagros, y le habla de su mentor, un famoso m茅dico de Asia llamado Ibn Sina, o Avicena.
Con dieciocho a帽os, Rob emprender谩 de nuevo un viaje 茅pico que lo llevar谩 a atravesar medio mundo, desde Inglatera y toda Europa hasta Constantinopla y de all铆 a adentrarse en tierras de los musulmanes para llegar hasta Isfahan, y conocer a Ibn Sina, el Pr铆ncipe de los M茅dicos.
Pero el camino no ser谩 f谩cil. Casi dos a帽os para llegar a destino, muchos apuros y sacrificios, pues en 茅sa 茅poca un cristiano ten铆a prohibido estudiar medicina musulmana, har谩n que Rob se haga pasar por jud铆o para ser admitido en la madrassa de Isfahan y poder estudiar medicina.
Son muchas las cosas que pasan en 茅ste libro y no puedo contarlas todas, pues creo que es de esas novelas que hay que leer al menos una vez en la vida. Y creedme, la pel铆cula no le hace justicia, de hecho, ni siquiera se parece la historia, pues est谩 todo inventado.
Y s铆, el libro es muy largo, pero para nada se hace denso o pesado, pues los cap铆tulos son cortos y siempre est谩n pasando cosas. Tanto la historia como los personajes me han encantado, sobre todo el grato recuerdo que deja Ibn Sina en su erudici贸n y su ayuda y afecto hacia Rob.
En general he quedado encantada con el libro y animo a todo el que tenga inter茅s en leerlo que lo haga. Por otro lado, estoy segur铆sima de que continuar茅 con los Cole y su saga m茅dica y no tardar茅 en leer "Cham谩n".
Supongo que el haberla tenido relegada durante tanto tiempo han sido las 900 p谩ginas que tiene, un tocho enorme para haberla le铆do en formato de bolsillo. Y pese al poco tiempo que tengo para leer, he hecho el esfuerzo de continuar cap铆tulo a cap铆tulo y sin desanimarme porque cuanto m谩s le铆a, m谩s me gustaba.
A su vez tambi茅n es lo primero que leo de Noah Gordon, y su prosa, tan directa e impersonal me ha gustado bastante para el desarrollo de la trama. Hace muchos a帽os, vi la pel铆cula en el cine, pero no me pareci贸 gran cosa y a煤n as铆 mi madre me animaba a leerlo por eso de que el libro es mejor. 隆Y vaya si es mejor!
Noah Gordon nos lleva a la Inglaterra del siglo XI, antes de la conquista normanda. Rob J. Cole es un ni帽o de Londres, hijo de un carpintero, pero en 茅l mora un poderoso don: es capaz con el tacto de saber cu谩nto le queda de vida a una persona, y 茅ste don entra en 茅l cuando su madre muere de parto. Posteriormente muere su padre, y en 茅sa 茅poca tan convulsa y cruel para los hu茅rfanos, Robert es separado de sus hermanos cuando estos son adoptados por otros vecinos.
Para no acabar como esclavo o algo mucho peor, con 9 a帽os, Robert conoce a Barber un cirujano barbero, m谩s de charlat谩n y chantajista que de m茅dico, que lo adopta para tenerlo como ayudante y aprendiz.
En sus primeros a帽os junto a Barber, Rob no est谩 realmente decidido a ser m茅dico, se conforma con ir de pueblo en pueblo junto a su mentor, vender sus p贸cimas curativas, sacar dientes y reparar peque帽os cortes. Pero poco a poco Robert se ir谩 interesando m谩s por la sanaci贸n, sobre todo cuando conoce a un jud铆o capaz de obrar milagros, y le habla de su mentor, un famoso m茅dico de Asia llamado Ibn Sina, o Avicena.
Con dieciocho a帽os, Rob emprender谩 de nuevo un viaje 茅pico que lo llevar谩 a atravesar medio mundo, desde Inglatera y toda Europa hasta Constantinopla y de all铆 a adentrarse en tierras de los musulmanes para llegar hasta Isfahan, y conocer a Ibn Sina, el Pr铆ncipe de los M茅dicos.
Pero el camino no ser谩 f谩cil. Casi dos a帽os para llegar a destino, muchos apuros y sacrificios, pues en 茅sa 茅poca un cristiano ten铆a prohibido estudiar medicina musulmana, har谩n que Rob se haga pasar por jud铆o para ser admitido en la madrassa de Isfahan y poder estudiar medicina.
Son muchas las cosas que pasan en 茅ste libro y no puedo contarlas todas, pues creo que es de esas novelas que hay que leer al menos una vez en la vida. Y creedme, la pel铆cula no le hace justicia, de hecho, ni siquiera se parece la historia, pues est谩 todo inventado.
Y s铆, el libro es muy largo, pero para nada se hace denso o pesado, pues los cap铆tulos son cortos y siempre est谩n pasando cosas. Tanto la historia como los personajes me han encantado, sobre todo el grato recuerdo que deja Ibn Sina en su erudici贸n y su ayuda y afecto hacia Rob.
En general he quedado encantada con el libro y animo a todo el que tenga inter茅s en leerlo que lo haga. Por otro lado, estoy segur铆sima de que continuar茅 con los Cole y su saga m茅dica y no tardar茅 en leer "Cham谩n".
September 12, 2016
Sch枚ner Re-read gewesen.
August 22, 2012
The Physician can easily be ranked as one of the most racist, prejudicial, erroneous, and contradictory novels, yet to be written on the East (the Others).
Islam and Persia are grotesquely sexualized. Domes on the mosques are described as body parts. Inappropriate sexuality is described as acceptable, desirable, 鈥渧ery sensible,鈥� to the Persians, when the king recalls a childhood memory with a tone, frighteningly close to fondness (380). One would question the author鈥檚 motives in making the King so promiscuous and such a devil. The answer seems to be that the author is trying to create another 鈥渕ysterious鈥� East (the Others).
The majority of the jargons, transliterations, simple Persian vocabulary, locations, historical figures, historical events, and Islamic terms are wrong throughout the novel! One would expect a historical novel, even if imaginative, to have a bit of research, editorial review, and educational preparedness. The author鈥檚 goal has justified 鈥渁ny and every鈥� misinformation and exaggeration.
Read the following statements on how Persians and Islam are described throughout the book. All are racist, prejudicial, stereotypical, and clearly untrue. These are just a few examples:
鈥淶aki鈥檚 skin had been dark, an advantage under a hot sun. Karim鈥檚 skin needed the yellow slave; it was the color of light leather, the result, Zaki always said, of a female ancestor being f鈥� [the author uses the full word] by one of Alexander鈥檚 fair Greeks. Karim thought something like that probably was true. There had been a number of Greek invasion and he knew light-skinned Persian men, and women with snowy breasts鈥� (403).
The climax of hatred and animosity toward the Persian land (Persia) is grotesquely depicted when Rob enters Persia and reaches a lake (Urmiya). The land, the air and everything in Persia is 鈥渟alty鈥�:
- 鈥溾€淭ake a pinch of salt [of the lake] and place it on your tongue.鈥� He did, gingerly, and made a face. Lonzano grinned. 鈥測ou are tasting Persia鈥濃€︹€漌e still have long days to ride.鈥� But first Rob pi鈥� into Lake Urmiya, adding his English Special Batch to Persia鈥檚 saltiness鈥濃€� (266-267).
- 鈥淔reckles were Allah鈥檚 just punishment on someone so shameless she didn鈥檛 wear the veil鈥� (493)
This book is planned to become a major motion picture in Hollywood and hit the movie theaters in 2013. One should only hope that this will not result in another biased, false, and shallow movie, one that only increases the distance between Us and Them, and pushes love and compassion further away.
Islam and Persia are grotesquely sexualized. Domes on the mosques are described as body parts. Inappropriate sexuality is described as acceptable, desirable, 鈥渧ery sensible,鈥� to the Persians, when the king recalls a childhood memory with a tone, frighteningly close to fondness (380). One would question the author鈥檚 motives in making the King so promiscuous and such a devil. The answer seems to be that the author is trying to create another 鈥渕ysterious鈥� East (the Others).
The majority of the jargons, transliterations, simple Persian vocabulary, locations, historical figures, historical events, and Islamic terms are wrong throughout the novel! One would expect a historical novel, even if imaginative, to have a bit of research, editorial review, and educational preparedness. The author鈥檚 goal has justified 鈥渁ny and every鈥� misinformation and exaggeration.
Read the following statements on how Persians and Islam are described throughout the book. All are racist, prejudicial, stereotypical, and clearly untrue. These are just a few examples:
鈥淶aki鈥檚 skin had been dark, an advantage under a hot sun. Karim鈥檚 skin needed the yellow slave; it was the color of light leather, the result, Zaki always said, of a female ancestor being f鈥� [the author uses the full word] by one of Alexander鈥檚 fair Greeks. Karim thought something like that probably was true. There had been a number of Greek invasion and he knew light-skinned Persian men, and women with snowy breasts鈥� (403).
The climax of hatred and animosity toward the Persian land (Persia) is grotesquely depicted when Rob enters Persia and reaches a lake (Urmiya). The land, the air and everything in Persia is 鈥渟alty鈥�:
- 鈥溾€淭ake a pinch of salt [of the lake] and place it on your tongue.鈥� He did, gingerly, and made a face. Lonzano grinned. 鈥測ou are tasting Persia鈥濃€︹€漌e still have long days to ride.鈥� But first Rob pi鈥� into Lake Urmiya, adding his English Special Batch to Persia鈥檚 saltiness鈥濃€� (266-267).
- 鈥淔reckles were Allah鈥檚 just punishment on someone so shameless she didn鈥檛 wear the veil鈥� (493)
This book is planned to become a major motion picture in Hollywood and hit the movie theaters in 2013. One should only hope that this will not result in another biased, false, and shallow movie, one that only increases the distance between Us and Them, and pushes love and compassion further away.
December 3, 2017
When I read it, over ten years ago, I was quite taken with it. Though not taken enough to persue the series further. I also remember ranting about the movie which I've seen a shorter while ago for being lacking in many departments, putting too much emphasis on a love story that didn't exist in the book in that way, and being a lot more "eurocentrist" in who is the hero than the book was.
October 14, 2020
My rating 4.7
The historical novel 鈥淭he Physician (Cole Family Trilogy # 1) by Noah Gordon is a well-written novel set in the 11th century that draws you to read it to the very end. The writer with his distinctive writing leads us with ease to the world of the Dark Ages where people are dying from diseases that are curable today. Doctors were quite ignorant at the time because knowledge of medicine was at a very low level. All faith that time did not allow the study of human anatomy and whoever would only think to do that was finishing on a bonfire as a witch or would be most cruelly killed. Every doctor, barber-surgeon had to be careful about how he treated his patients. After all, their lives depended on little things, because they could be called witches for the slightest mistake. The story follows little boy Rob Cole who in early childhood during the deaths of his mother and father discovers his gift to sense when someone is going to die. The gift itself is very dangerous and if anyone knew about it they could declare it a witch. That is why he is silent and does not tell anyone about it. After the death of his parents, his siblings are sent for adoption, and he is a barber-surgeon who takes him for his apprentice. During his apprenticeship he learns some basic things but when he knows a Jewish doctor who says he can cure cataracts on his eye it intrigues him. When he learned that a Jewish doctor was teaching at the Persian College of Medicine run by Ibn Sina. But the only problem is that they don't admit Christians to that college, but if that prevents Rob who wants to become a real doctor, you will have to find out in the book. I would recommend the book to all lovers of historical novels.
The historical novel 鈥淭he Physician (Cole Family Trilogy # 1) by Noah Gordon is a well-written novel set in the 11th century that draws you to read it to the very end. The writer with his distinctive writing leads us with ease to the world of the Dark Ages where people are dying from diseases that are curable today. Doctors were quite ignorant at the time because knowledge of medicine was at a very low level. All faith that time did not allow the study of human anatomy and whoever would only think to do that was finishing on a bonfire as a witch or would be most cruelly killed. Every doctor, barber-surgeon had to be careful about how he treated his patients. After all, their lives depended on little things, because they could be called witches for the slightest mistake. The story follows little boy Rob Cole who in early childhood during the deaths of his mother and father discovers his gift to sense when someone is going to die. The gift itself is very dangerous and if anyone knew about it they could declare it a witch. That is why he is silent and does not tell anyone about it. After the death of his parents, his siblings are sent for adoption, and he is a barber-surgeon who takes him for his apprentice. During his apprenticeship he learns some basic things but when he knows a Jewish doctor who says he can cure cataracts on his eye it intrigues him. When he learned that a Jewish doctor was teaching at the Persian College of Medicine run by Ibn Sina. But the only problem is that they don't admit Christians to that college, but if that prevents Rob who wants to become a real doctor, you will have to find out in the book. I would recommend the book to all lovers of historical novels.
February 15, 2021
Damals fand ich das Buch genial. Ich mochte die Story, die Hintergr眉nde und das epische der Geschichte.
August 11, 2021
REVIEW OF THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEXT
Honestly, I was actually and in fact totally expecting to very much enjoy Noah Gordon鈥檚 1986 historical fiction novel The Physician and mostly because almost my entire family (including my very picky with regard to their fiction reading choices father and maternal grandfather) absolutely and utterly adored the German language translation of The Physician. And indeed, Der Medicus also and equally has a very positive general rating on Amazon Germany with only very few entirely negative reviews, and not to mention that I did peruse the first four chapters of Der Medicus at a large German bookstore when Der Medicus first appeared in German translation in 1987 and was most definitely liking what I was textually encountering (but I unfortunately did not end up purchasing Der Medicus at that time and now sadly only have easy access to Noah Gordon鈥檚 original English text, only have access to The Physician).
And well, I guess from my one star rating for The Physician and that I have also placed The Physician on my 鈥渨ill not be finishing鈥� shelf, I think it definitely should be pretty much obvious and clearly demonstrated that I have not been AT ALL textually impressed with Noah Gordon as an author, with his penmanship. For while regarding the German translation, while regarding Der Medicus I do distinctly and with appreciation remember a descriptive, realistic for time and place and as such also my reading interest retaining writing style, with the original, with The Physician, sorry, but Noah Gordon鈥檚 stylistics and modes of literary expression almost immediately started majorly boring and frustratingly annoying me, with Gordon鈥檚 printed words feeling unorganised, unrealistic and truly tedious for me to read to such an intense and massive extent that I lost absolutely ALL of my perusal patience after about fifty or so pages and decided to not only quit but to also donate my personal copy of The Physician to the Salvation Army. So while I do sometime in the hopefully not so distant future plan on both reading and posting a likely rather generally positive enough review for Der Medicus, for Noah Gordon鈥檚 original English language text, for The Physician, I really cannot and will not give more than one star (for an in my humble opinion totally substandard and narrationally really quite horrible writing style that only manages to frustrate and has absolutely and with no feelings of guilt whatsoever made me abandon The Physician really early on).
Honestly, I was actually and in fact totally expecting to very much enjoy Noah Gordon鈥檚 1986 historical fiction novel The Physician and mostly because almost my entire family (including my very picky with regard to their fiction reading choices father and maternal grandfather) absolutely and utterly adored the German language translation of The Physician. And indeed, Der Medicus also and equally has a very positive general rating on Amazon Germany with only very few entirely negative reviews, and not to mention that I did peruse the first four chapters of Der Medicus at a large German bookstore when Der Medicus first appeared in German translation in 1987 and was most definitely liking what I was textually encountering (but I unfortunately did not end up purchasing Der Medicus at that time and now sadly only have easy access to Noah Gordon鈥檚 original English text, only have access to The Physician).
And well, I guess from my one star rating for The Physician and that I have also placed The Physician on my 鈥渨ill not be finishing鈥� shelf, I think it definitely should be pretty much obvious and clearly demonstrated that I have not been AT ALL textually impressed with Noah Gordon as an author, with his penmanship. For while regarding the German translation, while regarding Der Medicus I do distinctly and with appreciation remember a descriptive, realistic for time and place and as such also my reading interest retaining writing style, with the original, with The Physician, sorry, but Noah Gordon鈥檚 stylistics and modes of literary expression almost immediately started majorly boring and frustratingly annoying me, with Gordon鈥檚 printed words feeling unorganised, unrealistic and truly tedious for me to read to such an intense and massive extent that I lost absolutely ALL of my perusal patience after about fifty or so pages and decided to not only quit but to also donate my personal copy of The Physician to the Salvation Army. So while I do sometime in the hopefully not so distant future plan on both reading and posting a likely rather generally positive enough review for Der Medicus, for Noah Gordon鈥檚 original English language text, for The Physician, I really cannot and will not give more than one star (for an in my humble opinion totally substandard and narrationally really quite horrible writing style that only manages to frustrate and has absolutely and with no feelings of guilt whatsoever made me abandon The Physician really early on).
April 7, 2013
I had such great hope for this novel and although it started out well, it continued into a quagmire of long and drawn out story telling. While the premise was fascinating, the author just dragged the story out and included many banal details which slowed down the reader and made one feel like they were crossing the desert to a finish line that kept on getting further and further away.
I never really fully accepted nor found Rob, the main character, very appealing. Granted his life was hard and one does always have admiration for those who find their way, I just could not work up much empathy for him and the characters he came in contact with. It all seemed to matter of fact and not so much empathetic feelings seemed to be portrayed by the author.
Sorry to say, that as much as one can look forward to reading a certain book, they can be bogged down by rhetoric and rhetoric is certainly what ruined this novel for me.
I never really fully accepted nor found Rob, the main character, very appealing. Granted his life was hard and one does always have admiration for those who find their way, I just could not work up much empathy for him and the characters he came in contact with. It all seemed to matter of fact and not so much empathetic feelings seemed to be portrayed by the author.
Sorry to say, that as much as one can look forward to reading a certain book, they can be bogged down by rhetoric and rhetoric is certainly what ruined this novel for me.
January 7, 2016
The Physician is the first book of the excellent trilogy (Cole Family) of Noah Gordon I read. A book that I highly recommended if you like such novels "The Pillars of the Earth" in which generations of different eras are mixed, the history of medicine and exciting travel through exotic places.
Spanish version:
El M茅dico es el primer libro de la excelente trilog铆a del escritor Noah Gordon. Un libro muy recomendable si te gustan las novelas tipo "Los Pilares de la Tierra" en el que se mezclan generaciones de 茅pocas diferentes, la historia de la medicina y viajes apasionantes a trav茅s de lugares ex贸ticos.
Spanish version:
El M茅dico es el primer libro de la excelente trilog铆a del escritor Noah Gordon. Un libro muy recomendable si te gustan las novelas tipo "Los Pilares de la Tierra" en el que se mezclan generaciones de 茅pocas diferentes, la historia de la medicina y viajes apasionantes a trav茅s de lugares ex贸ticos.
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