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Summary: Very Slow Beginning
Review: A very slow beginning, but it does get better as the pages turn. A very wicked twist at the end makes it interesting. This was an average Robin Cook book. The conspiracy was easy to figure out.
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Summary: Fist time read but definatly not the last!
Review: This was the first Cook book I have read and I loved it. I read the entire book in 24 hours. I literally did not put it down. I even had to pull out one of my old Microbiology text books to look up some of the medical terms. If all his books are like this one I should have them all read by the end of next week!
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Summary: UGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!
Review: A teacher at school gave me a couple of Robin Cook books to read in my spare time and I picked Contagion out because of the cover. (Boy, did I ever prove that old saying right!) By the time I finished this book, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Why did Mr. Cook go off on so many tangents? His descriptions of the gang friends and gang language make you think that gangs aren't all that bad and their leaders are regular Patton's and Eisenhower's. Yuck. This book needed help.
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Summary: Fast-paced, but kind of silly.
Review: I just read Dr. Robin Cook's CONTAGION and I cannot adequately describe the depth of my frustration that his style earns him recognition on the best-seller lists. And he's got a film project, too. Unbelievable. Recognizing that I could not even begin to write as well as he does, even to save my life, I nonetheless say to you that his style of dialog is childlike, and so is his plot development, at least as far as this particular work goes. I would be interested in someone else's take on this physician-author's ability and style.
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Summary: CORNY
Review: Robin Cook couldn't decide on which topic to write about. 1) Bash Managed Healthcare 2) NYC ghetto life, 3) contagions, 4) anything else that came to mind. So, he decided to write about all in one book, Contagions. The result, a story line that is ridiculous. When was the last time Cook played a game of basketball with the "brothers" in Harlem? Where was he going with that crap. What happened with the hospital in the end? What the hell were the roles of his superiors at the morgue. Did Cook run out of "cool" names like "Flash" and "Twin for his Harlem gang that he had to make up other irrelevant characters? What happened to Chet? where did everybody go in the end? I know super whitey doc Jack and black gang leader Warren go out to dinner with their "shorties" at the end. GET REAL!!!!!!
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Summary: This book is awesome!!!!!
Review: As medical thrillers go, this book is tops. The different areas explored in this book, such as the gang related situations, is awesome. Especially the basketball scenes! This book gives the conclusion at the best time possible, and leaves the reader daunted, as the surprise ending gets everyone. I hope you all decide to read this book if you haven't already, and be prepared to love it!
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Summary: Soooooo Good...
Review: Csntagion is the best book I have ever read in my life. It was the first book by Robin Cook I had ever read and now I am hooked. I have read and re-read Contagion about a million times and each time I love it more. Contagion is the reason why I decided I wanted to go into pathology for a career. I love it and anyone who likes Robin Cook will too.
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Summary: Starts Out Great
Review: This book really had me hooked from the beginning but the author revealed the method too far into the beginning so you, the reader, have to spend 200 pages reading about people dying and having the lead character hunting around for clues when you already know how they are getting the diseases.Also, the ending did not fit in with the direction the book took at all. The way the hospital staff was acting you definately didn't think who was behind it all -- maybe if he provided some kind of explanation of why people responded the way they did it would be more plausible. For example, how did the culprits know that the hospital staff was on to them and order them killed? The books provides a plausible thing happening -- some wacko giving people weird diseases that you can order by mail with a credit card -- but the ending was lame to say the least.
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Summary: He has written better stories
Review: The novel started well. But the characters got more and more artificial, unrealistic, psychologically wrong. The so-called surprise ending came quite expected. But there was suspense after all. A book to read in your holidays.But not a page turner.
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Summary: This isn't like your everyday horror story.
Review: I loved "Contagion". It takes a very exciting twist at the end which basically leaves you in shock as you finish it. You can almost think that it's a true story because it sounds so true. I think that it has really good, and well explained characters in it. Like I said before it is all so believable. I think it's pretty cool that the medical doctor had the courage to keep going to the hospital and try to find out the root of the problem. I haven't been that interested in a book for a long time. You just couldn't let go of it. Like I said the twist at the end was really a creative idea. I keep the story very intense till the end.
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