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Summary: Very Suspensful
Review: Coma was a very thrilling book! Every page was a new experience. I recommend the book to readers who are patient and that love to read. It is a long book and the beginning is hard to get into. After you get past that beginning part, Coma is a book about a Med student who is taking a job at the Memorial Hospital. She finds out some really strange things and almost gets killed! Read Coma by Robin Cook.
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Summary: Still A Good Read.
Review: Coma was one of my favorite books of a couple decades ago, and when I revisited it recently I was surprised to find it still quite enjoyable, despite being somewhat dated in terms of the medical technology. That's because good writing lasts a long time. Strong characters, well-developed plot, driving suspense, it's all there.I'm not trained in medicine, but I certainly got the impression that the book was thoroughly researched and technically accurate for its time. I can envision interns, nurses, doctors and other medical practitioners now laughing at how things have changed in the field since Cook wrote it. But maybe that's a reason to read the book. What a great study in the recent history of medicine and hospital procedure. --Christopher Bonn Jonnes, author or Wake Up Dead.
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Summary: Coma: Classic Cook!
Review: Coma, a fantastic novel full of medical horror and mystery. This is some of Cook's older work, made into a movie (Director: Michael Crichton). Coma is superb!
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Summary: Glad I borrowed it from the library rather than buying it.
Review: Cook's writing in this novel is mediocre, at best. Yes, his in-depth knowledge of medicine is evident, but maybe a little too evident. Case in point, when he's describing the main character, Susan Wheeler, he says of her physical appearance that she had, " . . . that American, Californian style that made eyes turn and hypothalamuses awaken." Oh, please! That description is, for lack of a better word, cheesy. Who describes someone in such medical terms? It's the kind of comment one doctor might make to another, but for the general reading public, it's just bad - laughably bad. This is only one example. There are several others where it seems the author wants to ensure the reader recognizes his abundant medical knowledge, when his energies would have been better spent focusing on character- and plot-development.
Another hurdle I couldn't overcome was his writing style. He often introduces a character, then repeatedly refers to the character by name when a simple pronoun would suffice. "To Bellows it was incomprehensible how an individual could do so much bodily damage to himself and still keep it up. Bellows did not smoke; Bellows had never smoked. It was incomprehensible to Bellows . . . " I felt like screaming, "Yes, I understand you're talking about BELLOWS!"
I know it sounds as though I'm being petty, but bad writing really bothers me, and this book seems to be chock-full of it. Maybe when I return this book to the library I'll check out another one of Cook's novels, just to give him a fair shot.
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Summary: If you like technical thrillers, this book is for you.
Review: I have never read any books in the medical thriller genre before. I thought this book was fascinating. The suject of organ harvesting is a topic that is still widely debated and discussed now, so the book, although written in the 1970's, still has appeal to readers today. However, if you do not like sometimes rather technical books, this is not a good book to read. While easy to understand, it contains very in-depth talk related to the medical field and science in general. This book is a great model for writing thrillers because it has a very deep, suspenseful plot and an ending that keeps you guessing. It's full of explanations and sensory imagry. Robin Cook also does a great job at character development. The people in the book are real and very dimensional. Excellent book on all accounts.
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Summary: I Enjoyed the Movie More
Review: I normally enjoy Cook's stories, but this one was like reading a textbook, the plot didn't flow well, and I felt more could have been done in regards to the acutal conspiracy of selling organs on the black market. After all, that's the backbone of the novel, and yet, it's explained and over with in the final few pages of the book. Cook's done better.
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Summary: I didn't order it off Amazon but...
Review: I still want to tell everyone that this was my favorite Robin Cook book out of all that I have read which are all of them but Invasion and any of the new releases. And if I ever have to go to OR # 8.... I absoulutly will not go!
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Summary: We had to change OR 8 to OR 7A.
Review: I was in anesthesia training when this book and then the movie became popular. We actually had people cancel their surgery if they thought they were scheduled in OR #8. Cook keeps you on the edge of your seat with his graphic descriptions of the OR and the sense of confusion in the doctors involved with the patients who don't wake up.
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Summary: THIS BOOK PUT ME IN A COMA!!!!
Review: I'm actually a semi-fan of Robin Cook, especially for books on tape for long car trips (which is how I heard this one). Do not listen to the other reviewers. I felt obliged to write because I have no idea what they are thinking. The characters, especially the main girl, are all totally unbelievable. They act in totally bizarre ways and I could hardly stop myself from screaming at them out loud. The book drags on and on but having put myself through so much torture I felt obliged to finish it. The twist at the end was actually pretty good but by that point I was already dead of boredom and my opinion of it could not be saved. If you want to read Robin Cook try one of his better novels like Brain or Sphinx.
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Summary: i just liked this book
Review: I'm into my second reading. I enjoy this book very much. tis awesome!! Thankfully I've forgotton who the culprits are, though I remeber why they were inducing the comas, so I'm suspicious of all the characters, except of course Mark, hwo I know wasn't involved in this sinister foul-play. read it if you love thrillers and science fiction - with the elemnt of truth
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