Chromosome 6

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Summary: Not Robin Cook's Best
Review: The premise of this book was most intriguing but the character development was poor. The main character seemed almost like a rehash of characters found in previous novels by Cook. The scientific details were fascinating and obviously a lot of research went into these details. The geographic descriptions were also quite vivid but the ending was most abrupt and extremely poorly written. This could either be the fault of the author who lost interest by the last chapter or else the editor was overzealous and did a hatchet job on it. Either way, it was most disappointing. If you feel a need to read it, buy a used copy.

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Summary: Books need ratings like movies
Review: This book deals with the question of cloning and gene splicing. In Africa, a certain species of monkeys are being mutated. After the mutations are completed the organs from the mokeys are then transplanted to people who need them.
Cook I felt had a good plot but did not go into enough detail about what happened afterwards. He has lots of scientific explanations to back up his work but the story is predictable and lacks the amount of action I enjoy. This is the second Cook book I've read and they both have fallen short of what I expected to get out of them, the other was "Abduction".

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Summary: Chromosome 6
Review: This book is a mixture of science, suspense, and drama. It's about how the lives of two groups of people come together. One man has meddled with something he shouldn't have. He has created some dangerous creates that must be stopped. He must prevent his superiors from finding the creatures and destroying them before he has a chance to study them. The other is trying to solve a mafia crime. He is in New York at the time. A body is stolen from a morgue, which is not supposed to happen, and it was a big mafia leader. He gets on the trail of the thief and gets a lead to Equatorial Guinea. Both are in trouble and on the opposite sides of the world. Both doctors come together to solve the mystery. In between everything, both men get shot at, threatened, thrown in jail and been kicked around. They'll kind of tired at the end of the book. There are a few girls. Two are very adventurous but the other one would rather just stay somewhere safe. This book is good if you like just a little bit of science but not as much as a Michael Crichton book (no offense you Crichton fans). I really liked this book and I think you will too.

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Summary: Not a medical thriller
Review: This is a good book to read, is a thriller, but not a medical thriller, the book will keep you reading all the time, but whether it could be true or not the end is not a good one, of course you just can't kill everybody (animals and humans) at the end but I consider that the book must have another end.

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Summary: Exciting story, poor ending
Review: This is the only Robin Cook book that I have read so far. I found it to be very interesting and exciting. The medical stuff wasn't too deep that an ordinary person couldn't at least understand it to a certain extent. Plus there is a glossary of terms at the back of the book. But...the beef that I have with it, is the poor ending. I was getting so excited during the last third of the book, but the ending was so abrupt, it was like getting the wind knocked out of you. It left a lot of questions up in the air. Maybe he left it open for a part 2, I don't know. But I do wish we could know what happened with GenSys and the research facility in Cogo. Also, what happens to the Bonobos? What about Kevin, Melanie and Candace? So many questions left unanswered.

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Summary: cardboard science
Review: this novel has a very good premise -- guinea pigs (or in this case, bonobos) starting to evolve as humans. but the book is peopled by cardboard characters, starting from the protagonists -- kevin, jack, laurie; down to the antagonists -- raymond, the mafiosios; these people are so illogical. especially raymond who kept asking the help of the mob boss to solve his problems and in so doing just keep on complicating his problems. kevin on the other hand is such a wimp to be one of the main protagonists. i didn't not empathize with him at all. i was praying that he got caught and killed in the process.

this could have been another jurassic park in terms of its premise but it failed due to the characters.