Vital Signs

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Summary: COOKIE CRUMBLING
Review: Robin Cook is at his best when his medical thrillers stay focused and are more suspenseful. Now Cook is trying to turn his medical thrillers into convoluted espionage thrillers, taking his characters all over the world. Here we go to Australia, Hong Kong and China. Drawn out, unbelievable situations and meandering dialogue draw this book down. I liked the character of Tristan Williams, but both Marissa and Wendy get a little too much, and I can't blame husband Robert for his disdain with Marissa's antics. Of all the Cook books (ha, no pun intended) I've read, this is his least effective.

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Summary: Beware...
Review: This book really makes you step back and re-evaluate how much trust we put in our doctors. I sure know that I don't trust mine as much as before.

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Summary: Hokey and Predictable, and a Wild Goose Chase
Review: This book was okay as a vacation cabin read, but it is not one of Robin Cook's best. I found the plot pretty much predictable, in that the clinic was obviously trying to drum up business by creating a market, and then stringing the customer along to milk them for more cash. It only takes a couple hundred pages before the heroine of the story even gets close to that idea. She also falls for some of the lies quite easily, although she was suspicious about a coverup and evil intentions, she doesn't grok the obvious motive and means until the last few pages. The entertaining part is the traipsing through the clinic, breaking into the computer, and then off to Australia while chased by two bumbling hit-men, and then the heroine and her alter-ego trying to make contact with the triads (the number of watches they went through), before finally figuring out what the Chinese doctors do best. A good rainy day read, but not much of a mystery.

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Summary: Hokey and Predictable, and a Wild Goose Chase
Review: This book was okay as a vacation cabin read, but it is not one of Robin Cook's best. I found the plot pretty much predictable, in that the clinic was obviously trying to drum up business by creating a market, and then stringing the customer along to milk them for more cash. It only takes a couple hundred pages before the heroine of the story even gets close to that idea. She also falls for some of the lies quite easily, although she was suspicious about a coverup and evil intentions, she doesn't grok the obvious motive and means until the last few pages. The entertaining part is the traipsing through the clinic, breaking into the computer, and then off to Australia while chased by two bumbling hit-men, and then the heroine and her alter-ego trying to make contact with the triads (the number of watches they went through), before finally figuring out what the Chinese doctors do best. A good rainy day read, but not much of a mystery.

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Summary: Cool
Review: This book was so good I didn't want it to end, so I read the last 100 pages or so about five different times. Get this book!!!!

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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: This is probably the worst book I have ever read. I couldn't tell one character from another, the dialogue was trite and the plot was unbelievable and boring. I have read many of Cook''s books and found them entertaining, but Vital Signs will probably cause me not to read any of his other books. Don't waste your time or your money on this one.

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Summary: A little lacking
Review: This one was not exactly up to par. It was a little far fetched and you knew the end at least halfway into the book. If you're looking for something quick to read, go for it. If you're looking for something that is a little bit more believable and edge of your seat, try another one of his books.

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Summary: A little lacking
Review: This one was not exactly up to par. It was a little far fetched and you knew the end at least halfway into the book. If you're looking for something quick to read, go for it. If you're looking for something that is a little bit more believable and edge of your seat, try another one of his books.

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Summary: It could have been written in 150 pages
Review: Unrealistic, how can such criminal avoid to be caught? The fight to Asian mafia by main character is too naife. Robin seems to have picked up an up to date topic and written a book with poor plot.

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Summary: An Awesome story
Review: Vital Signs was a cool, suspense filled medical horror story. I wa left in the dark about what the clinic was doing and how until Marissa reveled it. The only part I didn't like was about the Chinese mafia. Still a good thought provoking tale, though