Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story by Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey
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Book Summary Author: Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1996-12-08 ISBN: 0310214696 Number of pages: 224 Publisher: Zondervan |
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Book Reviews of the Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Customer Review: Absolutely Awful
Summary: 1 Stars
This book was truly a painful read. Carson's story is one dimensional, boring, and horribly written. There seem to be no low points in his life, only highs where he suceeds apparently against all odds. His life seems to occur in a vacuum, with very little sense of time or place. He says he live in a poor area of Detroit as a child, but there is extremely little description of the place or its people, or how his life is extraordinary compared to everyone else who was raised there. You can't imagine 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 talks 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 physical weight, but just a voice. It is hard to picture her or to think of her or anybody 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 good 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.