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Summary: A Must-Read for anyone interested in Medicine!
Review: Robin Cook is the author of many wonderful New York Times bestsellers. As with all his other books, I have fallen in love with the way Cook takes medicine and merges it in with horror fiction. When I first heard about Robin Cook's book, I was afraid that I would have insufficient medical knowledge to understand his writing. Fortunately I have read many of his books and I have found them to require very small background knowledge in science. Like all his books, Blindsight, is written in a way that all the complicated science-medicine terms and ideas are explained within the character's thoughts. One of the strengths of, Blindsight is the immense level of suspense found on every page that keeps the reader constantly hooked on the book. Just like the way movie viewers feel when they are watching a great movie and get interrupted with a commercial break, there is a desperate wait to find out what will happen next. The book is structured into multiple scenes. The multiple scenes allow Robin Cook will take the reader back and forth through different character's perspective and location, as the book continuously progresses through time. Robin Cook writes long novels that builds suspense up, and then blows the reader away at the end. His writing is unique, as with most mystery books, Robin Cook feeds the reader with information as the characters learns the details. But since the reader has perspective of different characters, they have multiple pieces of the mystery puzzle that they can use to foreshadow what may happen next. The reader will keep foreshadowing until they get to the end of the book, where every little detail comes together and explains the whole mystery. This is the most satisfying part of the book, after reading over three hundred pages, Robin Cook shocks the reader with the frightening detail about medicine that solves the mystery. The only weak point in Blindsight is the re-reading value. Once the book is read, and the frightening detail is reveled, there is no excitement in re-reading the book. This is a fact, not just on Blindsight, but it is true about all his other books as well. Besides that, I have not find any downside in Robin Cook's remarkable writing styles. His style is geared towards readers who are interested in public medical health. People with concerns for the medical health will be horrified to read about the possible loopholes that criminals can get away with if we are not careful. Although the story is actually fictional, Robin Cooks integrates true medical facts that he was either taught as part of his career or learned from someone currently in the particular medicine field. In writing Blindsight, Robin Cook has gathered information from actual medical examiners, forensic pathologists, psychology, and ophthalmologists. I learned many new medical facts from this book, very interesting facts. For example, I learned with the proper knowledge, we can determine how long ago the body has died. Facts like these are crucial to the solving of the mystery, but are also educationally interesting to the reader. The main characters in this book are very personalized. There are the good guys, whom the readers will learn to love, and the bad guys where the readers will sneer. There is even a bit of an unexpected romance that changes course during the storyline. The romance part alone is enough to make me want to read the book all over again; but I rather spend time reading other great masterpieces that Robin Cook has put together. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who interested in medicine and science.
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Summary: Boring
Review: The book's plot was extreme (but in this day and age, it didn't seem all THAT implausable.) The biggest fault I found was at the very end. I thought that the final pages of the book would have been better handled as some sort of "author's epilogue." To have the main characters sitting down and discussing the events in the manner that they did seemed completely strained and unnatural. They were having a conversation, but it seemed that they were reading from a transcript. It was a disappointing end to an otherwise good read.
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Summary: Pooly done, even for this genre
Review: This book is a horrific let down. While admittedly no one expects to it be the next Lord of the Rings, I have rarely read a novel as poorly written and unbelievable as this. I found the entire book felt like it was written by a grade 9 student. Medically, it was accurate, but english wise, it was atrocious. While reading this, I felt like it was a glorified Nancy Drew books, you know, the ones we all loved when we were 6 or 7 years old. the characters are superficial and unbelieavle, the scenerios and plot are even more artificial. The character of Tony is one of the most unrealistic fictional characters I have ever come across. It was pretty obvious the author knew absolutely zip about organized crime when he wrote this book. Overal, a very poorly written and unbelievable book. No one is expecting Shakespeare, but we're at least hopeing for some entertainment. This was painful to read.
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Summary: A good story but... predictable
Review: This story is not like others RC's medical thrillers in which some doctors are involved with something wrong about the practice of medicine, here is the mob who is using a doctor whom doesn't know what was happening. The story will keep you reading but many times you will know what will be written in the next page, many things of the plot can't be true as for example that anybody can go inside the back door of the morgue just like that, or in NY anybody could say to you that has to go to your home and you'll take him with you in your car and let him in, nevertheless is a good story to read.
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