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rushthatspeaksYesterday's review, due to twenty-two hours in an airport without wireless.
This is yet another of James White's Sector General novels, which are quickly becoming some of my most reliable comfort reads. This one is not, of course, as good as The Genocidal Healer, but it's quite good, especially if you've read previous works in the series.
The Chief Psychologist of Sector General, O'Mara, bears the responsibility for the mental and emotional well-being of the many extremely intelligent and highly-strung minds of the thousands of staff and patients at the galaxy's largest multi-species hospital. He has appeared in the background of several of the other books being very good at his job. He is also renowned as one of the most abrasive, difficult to work with, and generally blunt people in the entire medical service.
This is O'Mara's book, the one about his life (in flashback, from close to his arrival at Sector General), his non-public personality, and the things he has really devoted himself to. Unsurprisingly, he is a good and devoted and dutiful and intelligent man-- but the details are not, quite, what one might expect.
I found this, as with all of White, a pleasant read about people who mean well and are very bright solving interesting intellectual problems with the best resources at their disposal. I found it slightly more emotionally involving than other White, though it will probably read best if you know O'Mara as a background character already and know his staff. In short, this is just a consistently pleasant, bright, readable, cheerful set of books, with one bona fide Really Good One, and I look forward contentedly to more of them.
This is yet another of James White's Sector General novels, which are quickly becoming some of my most reliable comfort reads. This one is not, of course, as good as The Genocidal Healer, but it's quite good, especially if you've read previous works in the series.
The Chief Psychologist of Sector General, O'Mara, bears the responsibility for the mental and emotional well-being of the many extremely intelligent and highly-strung minds of the thousands of staff and patients at the galaxy's largest multi-species hospital. He has appeared in the background of several of the other books being very good at his job. He is also renowned as one of the most abrasive, difficult to work with, and generally blunt people in the entire medical service.
This is O'Mara's book, the one about his life (in flashback, from close to his arrival at Sector General), his non-public personality, and the things he has really devoted himself to. Unsurprisingly, he is a good and devoted and dutiful and intelligent man-- but the details are not, quite, what one might expect.
I found this, as with all of White, a pleasant read about people who mean well and are very bright solving interesting intellectual problems with the best resources at their disposal. I found it slightly more emotionally involving than other White, though it will probably read best if you know O'Mara as a background character already and know his staff. In short, this is just a consistently pleasant, bright, readable, cheerful set of books, with one bona fide Really Good One, and I look forward contentedly to more of them.
