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Summary: I kept washing my hands while reading this book...
Review: This book was both educational and thrilling to read. Although I agree with some of the other readers here that there are some weaknesses in the plot and characterization, all in all I appreciate the author for a book that has enlighted many of us of the dangers of biogenetic warfare. Perhaps there should have been more focus on the true villain, the "Concern" which paid for the manufacturing of the COBRA virus, rather than the identification and pursuit of a loner sicentist. The very last chapter about the rats definitely seemed like a Hollywood ending. As some readers have pointed out, the plot line read like a movie script sometimes. However, I fervently hope that this book will be made into a movie. It will be much more educational than the romantic slop made from other popular but useless books. (Nicholas Cage would make a great Hopkins! Any suggestion for Austen?)
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Summary: Great Book
Review: the cobra event was a wonderful page turner at the end and really informative I would reccomend this and the eleventh plague to all readers!
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Summary: A Page Turner at Its Best!
Review: Once again, Preston writes a book with such flare and excitement on a topic that can actually occur, and that probably will occur at some point in the future. It truly opened my eyes to biological warfare. Watch out though. If you start reading it when you only have a few hours here or there, you could be in trouble, as you will not want to put it down.
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Summary: Absolutely terrifying
Review: This book is incredibly realistic. I couldn't put it down. I recommend it to anyone. Richard Preston is the best author I have ever read.
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Summary: Extremely Fascinating and Informative Book
Review: As i read through this book, I realized that biological warfare is a subject that needs to be understood by more people. We all live our day-to-day lives oblivious to the evils other countries are conjuring up. I think this book is a must read because people need to be aware of such subjects as biological weapons. I would recommend this book for anyone who can take it seriously, yet not become paranoid with the new-found information.
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Summary: Great story
Review: Excellent book; you cannot put it down. It's part mystery, pasrt sci-fi, part espionage. It does make you stop and wonder.
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Summary: A great literary accomplishment
Review: The Cobra Event is a very well thought out novel based on facts researched by Richard Preston. The novel has a great plot full of action and suspense. I highly recommend this novel.
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Summary: facinating thriller with a lot of truth & fact to back it up
Review: i am a avid reader of virus patholigi and bioterorism books and the one is one of my top three. Richard Preston has done a great deal of reserch that has resulted in this book being not only realy plausable but allso some of the tecnoligi that he mentions are being created. i highly recomend this book to any sci-fi, science or anyone who is interested in a realy good science thriller.
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Summary: Good Story
Review: I enjoyed the story although the writing could be better. Some of us who complain about poor writing should reconsider the quality of our own reviews, however. As a thriller, I found this exciting and informative. It's not supposed to be great literature, but Preston does spell correctly.
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Summary: It was an average thriller.
Review: I don't get into required reading for shcool, and like to pick out my own book, however this was a descnet choice. I predicted a great book of creativity and lots of new litature from Richard Preston, and from many sources it looked to be different, however I believed it to be dull and uncreative, like it was copied from your basic thriller. Nevertheless the details and diction seems to bring it back to life. So i really cant decide if i liked it or not, so read it and decide for yourself, i thought it to be average.
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