Star Surgeon

After the first chapter I thought this is just going to be silly but somewhere around the second or third chapter I realized that I couldn’t stop listening. If you hang in just a little it will be worth it!

I was surprised by how engaged I was by the story. Well written, easy to listen to.

Loved the novel as a kid love the audiobook better as an old man and it's free! Sure can't beat that price.

I enjoyed the narrator, and the story very much

Pretty good, if simple scifi story.

Very good story.

I loved the storey. It's imaginative and original content. Yet, the underlying message is relevant concerning our fear of including outsiders.

Good story, good character development. Good narration

very good book.

Dal Timgar wants to be a surgeon. He\'s dreamed of it most of his life, and he has the intelligence and the discipline to do it.\r\n\r\nUnfortunately, he\'s a Garvian, an alien, humanoid, but not human. No non-human has ever studied medicine on Hospital Earth; Dal is the first. And he\'s mostly not welcome.\r\n\r\nThis is a book that takes on racism, including structural racism, pretty directly, but also with grace. Jack\'s racism is obvious. Tiger, with the best of intentions, and loyalty to his friend, has an inclination to be a rather bull-headed \"White Knight\" savior, which Dal finds neither welcome nor helpful.\r\n\r\nThese three young men have to find a way to work together, while confronting some serious challenges on worlds Hospital Earth, and even the Galactic Federation, haven\'t been in contact with before. They all have a lot to learn. Aside from Jack\'s desire to find something that will disqualify Dal, and Tiger wanting to charge in and save Dal when there\'s a problem, Dal has his own temptations. He has a companion, a symbiote, and it\'s very, very useful. It\'s one of the things that makes Garvians such successful traders. And it would be extremely unethical for Dal to use it to help him in his difficulties with humans--at least according to the ethics he\'s learned on Earth. Will he resist? Will he succumb to temptation?\r\n\r\nThis is an enjoyable book, with decently drawn characters, and real growth in those characters, including the ones one might not be tempted to think of as good guys\r\n\r\nIt\'s not as good or exciting as I thought when I was racing through all the science fiction in the library in the 1960s, but it is good, and satisfying, and making thoughtful points I didn\'t consciously notice as a kid.

Great story

A solid book. It is a 'coming of age book of two entities. One is the hero of the book, a future doctor (surgeon). This alien, although he looks and thinks like a human, has a minor super-power broadcast and perceive empathy, which he avoids at all cost. The book doesn't give a clear motivation for this. The ending of the book was obvious to me after the second chapter. Nevertheless the '60s book was quite an easy listen and a delightful story. Only a few 2022 science progressions where apparent, but didn't weaken the story.

I liked the store! It could be a TV weekly show. I found the ending abruptly finished, with saying that it needs to end some how ;-)

Great narration of a fun story

Great story and the narration was very good it put me right in the story. Recommend this story to everyone.

Good listen. Enjoyed the book. Just didn’t quite like the ending kinda sad, but still only way it could end

OMG this was such a great story! The author used such out -of-the-box thinking when writing this story. Gave me the warm "fuzzies". Would definitely recommend!

I read this book 50 years ago. It made me want to be a doctor. I followed that dream. It was lovely to revisit a book from so long ago and to discover that I still liked it.

I enjoyed this book very much. I hated to have to stop my listening when I had to stop. It was interesting and enjoyable.

An excellent read/listen. The prejudice thread is meaningful today. Books from this era are always a hoot to learn what they thought we would be doing in the future. Anybody still reading ticker tape? After reading I learned that the author was born in Des Moines, where I live. He worked his way through med school writing for SciFi mags and Good Housekeeping under the title "Family Doc".