Taking the World In for Repairs

I just finished this challenging book that I enjoyed very much. Except for the writing. The author, Richard Selzer, writes so eloquently and well that I was filled with envy and almost decided never to write again. “Taking The World In For Repairs” is a lovely collection of essays that, though publis......more

I appreciated most the essays in this collection that are the most substantial, especially the first one about his time staying in a monastery and the final one, from which the book takes its title. A few of the others are too light for my taste.......more

Selzer is a surgeon and creative writing professor. As would be expected from the latter, his writing is fantastic, at times breathtaking. All of the essays and stories at least touch on medicine and health (which is a particular interest of mine), but it is not the main focus of all of them. Selzer......more

Well, even though it contains of short stories -which usually I looove- but this one too heavy for me. The writer was a doctor, so of course it was naturally for him to wrote all the settings. But when I got this book -hardcover edition- at 2003, I was a young girl who didn't care about the world too......more

I don't remember many details, except that Selzer is a surgeon and he writes very well and very philosophically. He was one of the earliest "literary docs."......more