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Summary: A Fast-Paced Page-turner!
Review: Once I started reading Elixir, I had trouble putting the book down. Its combination of credible science, dramatic plot and well-drawn characters marks Braver as a rising star-offering the best elements of Michael Crichton and Steven King. Elixir is about the search for the 'fountain of youth,' a theme others have explored before him. But Braver's story is full of surprises, with enough unexpected turns to please any reader fond of mystery thrillers or science fiction. Braver has a particular talent for drawing multi-dimensional characters. The people described in his book seem as familiar as the people next door, living in a world where choices have consequences and motivations may be more complex than they appear.
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Summary: Elixir: An Adrenaline Rush You Can't Stop!
Review: As a professional fight choreographer of stage and film with an inclination for great action, I continuosly hunt for fiction novels to read in my spare time. I am a passionate reader of Michael Crighton's books as well as Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child but none of them keep pace with Elixir. This book is riveting. It had me spellbound from cover to cover. The characters are engrossing, the story engaging, and the suspense is killing. More specifically, Gary Braver's ability to keep the reader off-guard is masterful. His ability to keep you second-guessing is equally impressive. What makes this book so universal is its ability to focus on the nature of family and how it serves as the glue to hold us together. Elixir will race in your blood for a long time! Enjoy!
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Summary: Elixir - As compelling as it sounds, excellent reading!!!
Review: Gary Braver's book ELIXIR is well worth reading. The book will keep you glued to its pages in anticipation. The content deals with issues facing us all in these times, where cell research, big pharmaceutical companies, and government can take control of our lives. The lure of everlasting life is at the epicenter of this book surrounded by turmoil and horror of looming proportions. Buy it and read it, then read it again. Bravo for Braver!!!
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Summary: elixir by Gary Braver
Review: Elixir is a book well worth reading. It deals with issues that face us all today, and as we move into the future. The book is compelling from the start, and will keep you glued to its pages until you have finished. If you like suspenseful literary works, you can't go wrong. The work also deals with larger governmental and big pharmaceutical company issues, and how they affect the course of our lives by controlling how we live without us knowing it, and how the consequences can alter our very existence.
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Summary: If you like thrillers, suspense.......
Review: Gary Braver has done a wonderful job with "Elixer". I believe he is destined to be one of the hottest authors of the new millenium. Robin Cook, Dean Koontz, Steven King, Clive Cussler, move over. There is a new sheriff in town!!! Let me be one of the first to offer my congratulations to Gary Braver.
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Summary: Elixir
Review: With Elixir, Braver exceeds in the art of storytelling by moving the techno-thriller to a higher level. A taut, compelling, and bullet-sleek read of a shockingly provocative and all-too-plausible novel filled with those ever hauntingly persistent questions of morals and consequences. How far would you being willing to go to obtain immortality, and what price are you willing to pay for it? - Gary S. Potter, author/poet.
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Summary: ELIXIR
Review: ELIXIR, Gary Braver's biomedical thriller, offers the best of why we read. For fiction fans, the storyline moves along at a "can't put it down" pace. For information junkies, we learn about tribal medicine men - both from Papua New Guinea and America! For those of us over-50s, we learn that getting old has its drawbacks, but that "Forever Young" is best left to Rod Stewart lyrics. For those who long for deep insight from their reading, there's a wealth of points to ponder long after the last page is turned. Gary Braver explains just enough about the biology of the aging process to help us put the book in a proper context. The reader won't get bogged down in too much science but will learn to understand the implications of what we hear each evening on the news health reports. It teaches the reader to look beyond any headlines of "miracle drugs." I anxiously await Gary Braver's next offering!
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Summary: The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living (Forever)
Review: With this Sci-Fi-Suspense-Thriller, Braver has deftly tapped into a psychological vein feeding the consciousness of American culture. To be young and healthy indefinitely may be a primordial human desire, but our video-oriented youth-obsessed culture has tweaked it to an abiding ubiquitous lust. Braver skillfully unfolds a world in which the wonders and perils of the miracle agent are clear to a range of users, but the lust overpowers judgment for most. Can anyone already privy to the egoistical pitfalls of our accelerating, root-challenged modernity take the elixir without inherently abusing it? Could I? And that is the principal frustration in reading this magnetic work: the constant tension between the throttling suspense driving one quickly from sentence to sentence, page to page, and the need to slow down long enough to explore one's own answers to the moral questions that the plot invokes. My compromise was an occasional brief lapse into internal moral reflection during the hours in which I voraciously consumed Braver's writing from cover to cover--but evocative questions taunt me still. Braver's artful crafting of scenes, and skillful juggling of suspense points across converging plotlines draw one ever forward. Toward the conclusion there is nothing to do but give in to the acceleration. Buy two: because if you set your copy down, someone you know and trust will be off into an "it-could-happen-tomorrow" biotech tale of vain hope and cascading consequence, and you won't be able to wait for their return.
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Summary: Sure you want to live forever?
Review: A wonderful read! Couldn't put it down. Full of suspense, intrigue and greed. A host of very believable and very dangerous characters will have readers looking over their shoulders the next time they visit a medical facility of any type. Great book for any fan of first class science fiction. "Elixir" is the kind of thought-provoking work that will have readers wondering just how far medical science can take us, and if the trip is worth the price. I'm looking forward to the movie.
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Summary: 3 1/2 stars - this one will make you think...
Review: I really enjoyed immersing myself in the possibilities if a 'fountain of youth' serum was actually developed. Mr. Braver does a great job of developing this story line from the discovery to the consequences of such a serum. The main characters (the Bacons) are well developed as are the villians. However, one should allow a little imagination regarding the effect that the elixir has on those that take it or stop taking it. I found the sister storyline a little weird and creepy and felt it added little to the novel. Overall, the story certainly makes you think of what the future may hold, but it lacks the umph to be called a page-turner.
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