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Summary: Predictable in parts, yet original
Review: I disagree with previous reviewers in that this is not propoganda either for or against abortion; it is merely a book with a plot that happens to center around abortion. Like some books that happen to surround drugs, mafia, guns, etc. It's a crime novel! I never got the feeling the author was trying to make a statement nor did I feel that he was trying to influence me.The book itself was suspenseful but predictable in parts. It was definitely captivating though unbelievable story; and I have to say that it wasn't necessarily the scientific part that I found hard to accept. It was actually the characters...particularly the way he portrayed politicians. Though I do have to say that even though there were too many characters (I had to flip back to remind myself who some were), the author did a nice job of tying up all the loose ends and unanswered questions in the final pages. It was a lot to keep track of! Also, the dialog was a bit wordy and I found myself skipping passages that contributed nothing to the outcome of the "fourth procedure". Most of us know what a writer means when he describes a character as being "messy" and don't need to have every sock or pair of dirty underwear described for us. I'd recommend this as a good weekend read, or on a long flight, purely for entertainment purposes...
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Summary: Truly a medical mystery masterpiece!
Review: I like novels that keep me in suspense until the end. and that's exactly what "The Fourth Procedure" did! I loved that it gave both sides of the issue that was discussed throughout the book:abortion. It also introduced characters that you want to hate, like Eli Graves, characters you sympathize with, like Jack, and characters that are a complete mystery, like Dr. Rachel Redpath. The book includes several mysteries, including three men involved in blowing up abortion clinics suddenly disappear, then turn up dead with their livers removed and plastic baby dolls in their abdomens with a note inside each of them that reads, "Keep It." The whole book is a puzzle, but when the pieces finally come together near the end, prepare for the ultimate shock! I believe that Stanley Pottinger did a great job coming through with this novel, especially since it's his first. Job well done!
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Summary: Truly a medical mystery masterpiece!
Review: I like novels that keep me in suspense until the end. and that's exactly what "The Fourth Procedure" did! I loved that it gave both sides of the issue that was discussed throughout the book:abortion. It also introduced characters that you want to hate, like Eli Graves, characters you sympathize with, like Jack, and characters that are a complete mystery, like Dr. Rachel Redpath. The book includes several mysteries, including three men involved in blowing up abortion clinics suddenly disappear, then turn up dead with their livers removed and plastic baby dolls in their abdomens with a note inside each of them that reads, "Keep It." The whole book is a puzzle, but when the pieces finally come together near the end, prepare for the ultimate shock! I believe that Stanley Pottinger did a great job coming through with this novel, especially since it's his first. Job well done!
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Summary: Gave me a lot to think about
Review: I love books that keep me thinking after I've read them and this was one of those books. Although it is tagged as a suspense novel (and there is suspense and mystery), I thought it was more on the lines of giving us insight into a subject we all have an opinion on...abortion. The book gave me positive insight into both the pro-life movement and pro-choice, although...I think ends up being much more sensitive to the pro-choice side. The book also has some great stuff about women's right...a beautiful speech at the end. Makes me wonder if the author wrote the speech first and then wrote a novel around it so he could get the speech published.
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Summary: A Great Book
Review: I read this book about 4 years ago, when my mom's boss gave her a bag full of books, some were cheesy, trashy romance novels but one in particular grabbed my interest from the others. It was The Fourth Procedure by Stanley Pottinger and I began reading it and finished it in about 2 days. Any reader who has a modicum of intellect will find this novel a breezy, fun and hyper creative read. I couldn't put it down and the ending blew me away. And still to this day I think that its possible and what occured in the book could happen in real life. Some of the topics covered were kinda testy at best as with anything involving abortion, politicians, secret medical experiments which tamper with the natural law among other controversial aspects but this book manages to blend them all in a steamy potboiler worthy of praise and at least a movie of the week if not a full length feature if you ask me.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I read this Book twice and can't wait for Stanley to write another one. Hurry stanley!!!!
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Summary: The best abortion fiction I've read
Review: I read this book with a little skeptism at first becaue it said it was a feminist view. I was very impressed with how the story laid out. It was kind of weird that those doctors were doing those experiments. A must read for any medical thriller reader.
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Summary: A must-read!
Review: I was very surprised by this book. Seldom do I find a book that I wish to read more than once anymore. I've recommended this book to my co-workers and will read it again myself.
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Summary: Interesting read, but plot is impossible and complex.
Review: Pottinger obviously has done his homework before writing this book. I did find the plot to be complex, with many twists and turns. Sometimes too many... As a medical professional, I found many of his references to medical procedure in to be theoretically correct and well explained. Unfortunately, the concept of taking a child to term with-in the body of a man is not very plausible, and innapropriately, highly futuristic. I think that Pottinger might be better served to concentrate solely on fiction with its basis primarily on what he knows best, the law. His altitudnous insight (as I'm sure he possesses, having argued before the supreme court) would definitely contribute to an excellent legal thriller. But by enlarge, this book was good for his first effort. I commend him.
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Summary: Slow start almost kills it.
Review: So... What do you get when you have a Cheif Justice appointment awaiting confirmation while an important case is being heard while there are political favors intertwined with two people on different sides of the abortion issue that absolutely hate each other? Throw in a renegade doctor with something to prove and you've got "The Fourth Procedure". When I read books in the thriller genre, I expect a lot more action from the onset. This one seemed to drag while setting up all of the characters that were all a piece of The Big Picture. I think a few less characters and one less sub-plot and this would be one I could recommend to thriller readers. The plot is centered around the ever divisive issue of abortion. It didn't seem to me that the author actually tried to take sides. The way the issue is twisted into the plot, it presented both sides of the argument equally well. Like most thriller books, someone comes up with the review "Impossible to put down". With this book, if you put it down during the first half, you're gonna get lost. But, by the time we get to the end, it is tough to set aside for all the right reasons with mystery/thriller novels. A decent book in all, but I was a little disappointed with the slow start.
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