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Summary: Robin Cook the master of medical thrillers
Review: Chromosome 6 is a very good book, you never get bored.
There are a lot of action and suspense.
The story is about the clonage , and that show what the clonage can do, some human-animal, that make thinking.
The book speaks about what past now.
It's sometimes hard to understand because there are a lot of the medical terminology.
and about a medical examiner named Jack Stapleton who discovers at the morgue in New York City while working that something strange is going on. He notices during an autopsy that a man had had a liver transplant but for some reason he has trouble finding out where and when and also the man didn't need anti - immunity drugs, in other words the body did not try to reject the liver. Jack digs deep to find the answer and the two plots finally connect.
I very enjoyed it!
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Summary: The best book by Cook from beginning until the wonderful end
Review: As I was reading CONTAGION, another excellent book by this wonderful writer, that deals with a kind of rare virus, and as I was diving in the story, I went so deep on the plot that somehow I felt the same sickness, the same disease the characters were feeling... Well, what this book has to do with CHROMOSOME 6? The simple truth is: the other day I couldn't leave my bed, feeling so bad I couldn't move: psychological sickness, I discovered later. Then, I had one more book by Robin Cook to read... CHROMOSOME 6, of course. This book is the best one Robin Cook ever wrote. The plot, one of the most original and well developed I've ever read, makes you want never stop reading that book. And, since I was sick and couldn't leave home, I went on reading... And finish the book in only one day... And this book is more than 500 pages long. Believe me. This book is a wonderful reading. CHROMOSOME 6 is one of these rare books that you read from beginning to end as if you were watching a wonderful movie with your favorite actor. I'm not going to tell you here anything of what happens on this story. You'll have to read to understand how powerful, strong and well-written this book is. In my opinion, Robin hasn't written a better book since that one. And I believe that, if you begin reading that one, you'll agree with me. If you haven't read any book by Cook yet, that's the perfect choice. If you're a fan already, then, this book will make you enjoy Robin's books more than ever. Read it and know exactly why. Marco Aurelio.
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Summary: Stunningly bad. Run, run from this book!
Review: Robin Cook's novel of genetic manipulation which creates a race of proto-human simians is laughable. My congratulations, however, go to him for apparently creating one of these creatures himself, as Chromosome 6 appears to have been edited by one of these self-same bonobo apes! This novel is tripe- absurd, unbelieveable characters (in particular the female characters assisting Kevin at the complex in Africa), dialogue that is beyond clumsy, the most howlingly bad, stereotypical mafiosi imaginable- I fail to see how any editor worth his salt wouldn't be forced to ask for an extensive rewrite. That is, of course, unless he were a genetically engineered chimp editing with a sharpened flint. Yup, that would be the only possible reason for this literary train wreck.
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Summary: Definitely a page turner but the ending??????
Review: Once I reached page 75 I could hardly put this book down! Very exciting however, I didn't expect to have to come up with my own ending. You have to assume Kevin, Candace, and Melanie made it back to the U.S. ok, assume the whole operation was shut down, and once Esteban who also went to Africa with Warren,Natalie, Laurie, and Jack introduced everyone to his relative he is never mentioned again. Did he stay in Africa or what? And where did Warren and Natalie go in the end? If they all left New York together shouldn't they have arrived back together? I guess the glossary at the end was nice, but wasn't really necessary since the medical terms are explained pretty well throughout the story. Also, the ending was rushed. Robin Cook did the same thing with Toxin, left you hanging in the end. I've only read 2 of his books, do all of them end this way? I want to read more but, I don't want to be let down in the end. Oh well, if nothing else, I'll gain alot of knowledge.
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Summary: OVERCOOKED
Review: Robin Cook by now must realize he must sacrifice the "king of medical thrillers" to the charming Tess Gerritsen. Although Cook has done some good work, this muddled, overdrawn, repetitious tome is too long in length and too short on excitement. While Tess manages to keep the reader braced for unexpected twists, Cook leads you to where you know it's going, and peoples it with some of the most uninteresting characters I've had the displeasure to spend time with. The mafia characters are hilariously inept, and the heroes at the cloning site are childish, stupid, and reminiscent of an episode of Dawson's Creek.
This is not Cook at his best, the three stars are to recognize his previous works and hope they get better after this one.
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Summary: Not a medical thriller
Review: This is a good book to read, is a thriller, but not a medical thriller, the book will keep you reading all the time, but whether it could be true or not the end is not a good one, of course you just can't kill everybody (animals and humans) at the end but I consider that the book must have another end.
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Summary: Books need ratings like movies
Review: Whether you like the ending of this book or not, the actual idea and concept presented in this book are very interesting! I found the book entertaining as well as educational, I learned a lot about the medical field, from management down to molecular biology! However, I was very dissapointed in Cook's use of language. Profanity is just not necessary, we hear enough of that in movies and on television. Also, he uses the name of Jesus Christ irreverently (similar to what you hear in movies or on TV). If people are shocked by something they don't need to blurt out the Lord's name. ... This book had no sex "scenes", for which I was grateful. ...
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Summary: Cook Falls Short
Review: This book deals with the question of cloning and gene splicing. In Africa, a certain species of monkeys are being mutated. After the mutations are completed the organs from the mokeys are then transplanted to people who need them.
Cook I felt had a good plot but did not go into enough detail about what happened afterwards. He has lots of scientific explanations to back up his work but the story is predictable and lacks the amount of action I enjoy. This is the second Cook book I've read and they both have fallen short of what I expected to get out of them, the other was "Abduction".
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Summary: Science Thriller
Review: This is a thrilling novel about some scientists in Africa that are using cloning to create subhuman monkeys using bonobos so that their body parts can harvested for the specific human who is matched with the animal, and about a medical examiner named Jack Stapleton who discovers at the morgue in New York City while working that something strange is going on. He notices during an autopsy that a man had had a liver transplant but for some reason he has trouble finding out where and when and also the man didn't need anti - immunity drugs, in other words the body did not try to reject the liver. Jack digs deep to find the answer and the two plots finally connect. I really liked Jack Stapleton's character, and his co - worker, Laurie Montgomery, and enjoyed them in Contagion and Vector also. I felt I was educated as I read the book, it was very well detailed with scientific and medical information, but not boring, book keeps a good pace. An exciting read.
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Summary: Perfect for Forensic Science Junkies
Review: I'm addicted to the forensic science shows on TV, so this book was right up my alley. I enjoy how technical the book is (the descriptions of pathologies), but I find elements of the plot to be unrealistic (even for a sci-fi book -- such as jack's unlikely friendship with Warren and how they all fly off to Africa). However, the plot is disturbingly realistic . . . it makes you wonder!
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