These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Doctor at Sea; by Richard Gordon.
It is a long time since I read this series - the Doctor series by Richard Gordon - beginning with this one, and this one stands out in memory perhaps because it was the first one, unless it was because of the doctor who was fed up at the end of the first voyage in the job he took on a ship hoping for a cushy job, much money and hardly anything to do - which was all fine and true, only the captain's wife was seasick every morning, no matter what he gave her, regular as a clockwork, and he came off feeling a failure for being unable to cure her seasickness.