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Summary: Decent... but what's the big deal??
Review: "Elixir" was certainly not a bad book, but I cannot understand all the 5-star reviews. The story was interesting, but not completely original. The philosophical issues brought up were valid, but explored in a cursory manner. The prose felt clumsy to me, in a few places. Maybe this is not a fault of the author, but there were perhaps a dozen grammatical errors in the book - for example, when clearly referring to an individual, using a phrase like "...you can't just make a people do something..." instead of "...you can't just make a person do something..." I'm paraphrasing this, but it's the freshest example in my mind, as it's near the end of the book. Also, cocaine comes from COCA leaves, not COCOA leaves - that made me laugh.
However, there was a good twist in the last 50 pages that I did not see coming, and the story as a whole was worthwhile. Not great, but not bad. A decent read.
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Summary: Move over Koontz!
Review: Elixir tantalized my neurons! I've read every book Dean Koontz has published and was looking for another author who could do so.
Like any great book, "Elixir" continues to challenge your mind even when you're not reading it. I find myself posing the question to my friends - "What if you could live forever?........" My Wife is very happy that I've turned the last page of "Elixir" The night light was keeping her up.
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Summary: Move over Koontz!
Review: Elixir tantalized my neurons! I've read every book Dean Koontz has published and was looking for another author who could do so.Like any great book, "Elixer" continues to challenge your mind even when you're not reading it. I find myself posing the question to my friends - "What if you could live forever?........" My Wife is very happy that I've turned the last page of "Elixir" The night light was keeping her up. Tell
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Summary: ELIXIR --Number 1 Thriller For The New Millennium
Review: Gary Braver's latest novel "ELIXIR" is a must for your summer read. Turn the pages from beginning to end for an escape to suspense, thrills and horror. Gary's authenticity peaks time and time again making "ELIXIR" the Number 1 thriller for the new millennium. When school resumes in the fall, "ELIXIR" is a definite read for our "Book of the Month" club.
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Summary: A MUST READ
Review: Elixir is such a well written suspense thriller that you find yourself hooked from the very beginning page! Once I began the book I didn't put it down until I reached the end! Gary Braver is on a scale with Dean Koontz and Stephen King and Elixir kept me riveted page after page! I found myself growing so involved with the characters and the plotline I didn't want the book to end but alas one can only hope for a sequel!
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Summary: A Faustian bargain
Review: This book starts with a bang and doesn't let up until the last page. Christopher Bacon is faced with a dilemma that on first blush seems the kind of deal we'd all take -- but which may be a deal with the devil. In return life, he will get eternal loneliness. Hard-hitting edge of the seat plotting, a page-turner. Very good texture, descriptions of the rainforest in New Guinea are fascinating. Believable supporting characters. The issue of big business, big pharmaceutical company and moral obligations played as a subtext lifts this beyond most good thrillers.
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Summary: What a ride!
Review: Wow, what a ride Elixir was. Do you like Crichton? Do you like Preston and Childs? Then you'll love Braver's Elixir. Well-researched and well-written, it will keep you turning the page, no doubt. Buy this now, and enjoy.
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Summary: Masterful, Exciting Thriller
Review: If you enjoy reading Grisham, you will love this! Braver does for medical suspense mysteries what Grisham does for legal ones. You won't be able to put this book down. Intrigue and suspense are intricately laced throughout this story about a Boston Chemist who accidently discovers the secret to eternal youth. Unfortunately Elixer has a deadly secret that opens up a moral and ethical Pandora's box. Braver will keep you guessing to the very last page.
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Summary: Eternal Youth
Review: A page turning biotech thriller about how the pursuit of eternal youth can destroy us all. Scientist Chris Bacon devotes his career to secretly replicating an eternal youth potion he distilled from an orchid in Africa, but his success has ramifications he could never envision. Pitted against an economaniacal and desperate boss, violent drug runners, the FBI, and an untrustworthy government, Bacon is up the challenge. He has intellectual and street smarts, and despite his runaway ambition, he manages to exude kindness and soul. Crisp like Crichton, Braver offers deeper characters, from Bacon's thoughtful and moral wife to the thoughtful and immoral drug king pins. Exiler makes the dream of growing younger both delicious and terrifying. THis book makes a great birthday present for anyone turning 50 (or more!).
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Summary: This could really happen
Review: Gary Braver knows it: Most of us want to live forever, and evenbetter - staying young and healthy all the while. Such a story line isirresistable. In between the convincing details, the fast-pacedsuspense and action, Braver craftily presents us with the moralaspects of eternal life. Is it really what we want? What will happento us as human beings, if we never need to fear death? Speakingthrough a set of highly individual characters, painted clearly andvividly, Braver never lets the suspense go slack. This is one of thosebooks you simply can not put down. It has everything!
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