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Summary: SUSPENSE PACKED
Review: "A Slow Burning" begins fast and keeps the pace until the end. Pottinger handles different plot lines and 3 main characters, at times the plot lines interfere with the main theme of the book. Stay with the book, everything comes together nicely in the end. "A Slow Burning" has action, suspense, romance and gruesome murders...
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Summary: A Slow Burning is a Fast Paced read!
Review: A white man witnesses some black men killing his father as a child. A black man witnesses white members of the Klan lynch his father as a child. From these roots, the novel traces the motivations of both these protagonists, how it has shaped their nature and viewpoints about the other race - on a grander scale and philosophy.
On a personal, individual level, both these protagonists are in love with the same woman, which brings in the element of sexual rivalry and competition, more so since the two are thrown together in the course of their work. The white male is a police detective and the black man is a pioneering scientist/doctor.
The novel is gripping and frightening when it details the brain wasting experiments that are done in the name of science and how they impact the life of the heroine. The novel is sensitive when it deal with racial stereotyping which every person does inadvertently no matter what level of political correctedness they have been exposed to.
A gripping storyline which involves medical science, love tangles, the hood, suspense, rivetting suspense, and ultimately the question...how far can one push the boundaries of human exploration and the buttons of love is what the novel is all about.
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Summary: Not worth reading
Review: All I can say is that this was one of the worst books I have ever read. I couldn't stand any of the main characters.
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Summary: Five Stars Plus one
Review: Anything over 400 pages usually scares me off. This time I couldn't put it down, close to 500 hundred pages of relationship drama, suspense, and murder, this was one of the best books I read over the summer. For the movie, Denzel Washington as the talented Dr. Cush Walker, Nicolas Cage as the rogue cop Nat Hennesy, and this may be stretching it a bit, but Julia Roberts as the beautiful Camila stuck in the middle of the two men who love her. Can't wait for the next book!!!
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Summary: Fascinating...mind stirring...a new wave of technology
Review: First of all, I have NO time in my busy schedule to read a fortune cookie, let alone a 478 page fiction novel...However, this was one book I could NOT put down! Mr. Pottinger does what I love best - he introduces you to each major character in a very special, intimate way, and sets the stage for how this plot eventually ties itself together. And in the end, you nod your head, and finally "get it". It's a combination of detective work, medical advances and a passionate love triangle that will surprise you in the end. It's a very well researched, well written book, and one i will most DEFINITELY keep on my bookshelf for years to come.
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Summary: Fascinating...mind stirring...a new wave of technology
Review: First of all, I have NO time in my busy schedule to read a fortune cookie, let alone a 478 page fiction novel...However, this was one book I could NOT put down! Mr. Pottinger does what I love best - he introduces you to each major character in a very special, intimate way, and sets the stage for how this plot eventually ties itself together. And in the end, you nod your head, and finally "get it". It's a combination of detective work, medical advances and a passionate love triangle that will surprise you in the end. It's a very well researched, well written book, and one i will most DEFINITELY keep on my bookshelf for years to come.
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Summary: Brilliant medical thriller
Review: His superiors pressure New York police detective Nat Hennessy to abuse the love and trust of his fiancee Camilla Dissonette. The plan is to destroy Dr. Cush Walker, a neurosurgeon who is a finalist for a Nobel Prize. Cush is Camilla's former boy friend. Cush has invented a brain-scanning device that detects when an individual has a proclivity for racial bias. The BIAS test frightens many police officers, as they fear they will fail when their feelings emerge. Cush has also pioneered work in restoring damaged brains. That means little to the NYPD brass who feel the brilliant doctor is going to obliterate their department and more important their jobs. A SLOW BURNING is a brilliant medical thriller in which the action never slows down while providing a message on racial discord. The story line is complex as eccentric characters push forward their own agendas. Stanley Pottinger shows he is one of the best by his ability to incorporate ethical and moral issues within a nonstop thriller. Few writers can successfully unite the cerebral with the brawn as he has in this novel. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: A Slow Burn
Review: I agree with Stephanie Lewis: this is an awful book. I like convoluted plots but this was totally lacking in credibility, and in parts was just plain unpleasant. I just skipped through most of the second half, which seemed to be getting weirder and weirder.
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Summary: A Slow Burn
Review: I agree with Stephanie Lewis: this is an awful book. I like convoluted plots but this was totally lacking in credibility, and in parts was just plain unpleasant. I just skipped through most of the second half, which seemed to be getting weirder and weirder.
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Summary: what a waste
Review: I can't believe that people will not only read this garbage, but will actually praise it. What possible reasons can there be for this level of gratuitous violence and graphic sadistic detail? Answers: to appeal to the lowest commmon denomimator of human behavior and wring a profit from it. What kind of world is this...
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