Rating: Summary: Fabulous.......! Review: Oh well, i have no words to describe this book. So to simply put it, it's just awesome. Even though i have no medicine background, i love robin cook. Coma was my second 'robin cook' book. Even though i did get confused in the end....still i loved reading the book. i really recommend the book cuz it kinda just touches on what may actually be happening somewhere without our knowing. The concept is not new, doctors trading on human body parts..etc...yet Robin Cook has managed to put the whole thing in a beautiful way. So don't wait just grab it & read.....I would also suggest u read the book first rather than watch the movie first cuz then the story is not distorted according to the director's whim. Although i haven't watched the movie Coma, its just my personal opinion.
Rating: Summary: Great Book Review: One of the most amazing books ever it grabs you and wont let go it's just that good
Rating: Summary: Coma, another masterpiece by Robin Cook. Review: Robin Cook has become the one of the best suspense medical fiction writer I have ever seen. I have read many books of Robin Cook, such as Mutation Blindsight, Mindbend, Outbreak, and Brain. They all have totally different views, like Mutation contains a story about a scientist who is trying to make a genious from the mutated DNA. Outbreak includes Evola virus that puts everyone in danger. Every one of his novels have different views but they all have connection to a medicine. That makes his books so unique and very interesting.Coma obsses readers and makes readers to finish the book with out going to sleep. I finished this book in 2 and half days. but Coma is not my favorite novel by Robin Cook. My favorite novel by Robin Cook has to be either Outbreak or Blindsight. I strongly encourage you to read any of Robin Cook's novels. Soon as yo u start reading, you cannot stop reading even if you want to until you read all Robin Cook's novels. I gurantee it..
Rating: Summary: Start your habit here Review: Robin Cook is not an author, he is a habit. This book is the first to read to start your habit. He at least knows his limitations and his writing career since has not strayed much out of what he is good at, which is, novels about 'inside the medical world', from a doctor, who thrills non-medical people with the inside knowledge of hospitals, drug companies, research labs, etc. Anybody thinking of going into medicine should definitely gobble him up. Some of his novels have better plots than others, but they are all like mind candy, they can all be swallowed in one swallow, they are fast reads, always leave you with some knowledge you are glad to get, and wanting Cook to write more and more. Personally, I read this book years ago, and within days I had raided used book stores for every paperback ed. of his other novels I could get, and they still sit in my living room bookcase, all soiled from my sloppy reading habits :) Coma stands out as the best, for some reason, maybe the novelty at the time. That's where the word 'novel' comes from :) Just don't read this book thinking you can go on and read other authors, you will have to go get more 'Cook books' like I did, and be 'Cooking' for a long time before you can let it go for another author :)
Rating: Summary: Love Cook but not this one in paticular Review: Robin Cook is probably my favorite authour due to his fast paced plots and technical expertise. He does for Medical thrillers what Grisham does for Legal Novels. Coma, however, did not seem overly realistic to me and I found it a little farfetched in places. I prefer his newer stuff I think to this old time best seller.
Rating: Summary: Coma Review: Robin Cook's Coma is a gripping medical thriller with lots of surprises. It all starts with some patients having surgery on minor injuries. They are put to sleep for surgery, but after the surgery is over they still don't wake up. They're in a coma, hence the name. A new medical student by the name of Susan Wheeler is working at the hospital and finds these sudden cases suspicious. She decides to check into them and what she finds out is breathtaking. I loved this book because of all the suspense and action. I just never knew what was going to happen next. I would say it is one of Cook's best. I loved this book and I think you would too.
Rating: Summary: Great medical thiller! Review: Scarey to think this might someday be true
Rating: Summary: Suspensful Review: Susan Wheeler is a third year medical student who stumbles upon a series of "coincidental" deaths. Many patients who go into routine surgery come out in a coma. Susan Wheeler just can't let go the nagging feeling that something is wrong. She fluffs her medical lectures and rounds to investigate these bizarre occurrences. While the evidence she's collected is an eye-brow raiser, no one seems to believe her and soon the hospital administration is urging her to "stop this nonsense". Cook wrote a very suspenseful novel. Although he does tend to over explain some medical issues when it really isn't necessary - "Darn (a nicer word than the real one used) it Jim, I'm a reader; not a doctor!"
Rating: Summary: Suspensful Review: Susan Wheeler is a third year medical student who stumbles upon a series of "coincidental" deaths. Many patients who go into routine surgery come out in a coma. Susan Wheeler just can't let go the nagging feeling that something is wrong. She fluffs her medical lectures and rounds to investigate these bizarre occurrences. While the evidence she's collected is an eye-brow raiser, no one seems to believe her and soon the hospital administration is urging her to "stop this nonsense". Cook wrote a very suspenseful novel. Although he does tend to over explain some medical issues when it really isn't necessary - "Darn (a nicer word than the real one used) it Jim, I'm a reader; not a doctor!"
Rating: Summary: detailed and well-written Review: The book "Coma" by Robin Cook is about four medical students entering the freighting world of medicine. The time is February of 1976. Three of the medical students are male and one is female. During this time it was very hard for a female to succeed as a doctor. It is even harder for Dr. Susan Wheeler to succeed when she uncovers a horrifying deception. The deception she uncovers is that a select group of senior doctors at Memorial Hospital are taking patients into minor surgery and making sure they do not ever wake up. The patients are not dead; they are in a comatose state. Susan discovers they are harvesting the patients' body parts. She is out to uncover the truth even if it means risking her own life. "Coma" is very well-written. It has a lot of great description of the characters and their surroundings. The author also gave very vivid description to the operations and procedures performed in a hospital atmosphere. Although the book was very well-written and the author did a great job of putting the reader in the scene, to read this book one must have a fair amount of learned medical terminology. The author uses a lot of very highly technical medical terms, which makes the reading very hard if one is not sure what is going on. Other than this the book is very suspenseful and great reading.
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