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Summary: Chromosome 6
Review: This book is a mixture of science, suspense, and drama. It's about how the lives of two groups of people come together. One man has meddled with something he shouldn't have. He has created some dangerous creates that must be stopped. He must prevent his superiors from finding the creatures and destroying them before he has a chance to study them. The other is trying to solve a mafia crime. He is in New York at the time. A body is stolen from a morgue, which is not supposed to happen, and it was a big mafia leader. He gets on the trail of the thief and gets a lead to Equatorial Guinea. Both are in trouble and on the opposite sides of the world. Both doctors come together to solve the mystery. In between everything, both men get shot at, threatened, thrown in jail and been kicked around. They'll kind of tired at the end of the book. There are a few girls. Two are very adventurous but the other one would rather just stay somewhere safe. This book is good if you like just a little bit of science but not as much as a Michael Crichton book (no offense you Crichton fans). I really liked this book and I think you will too.
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Summary: 1-Dimensional Writing
Review: I was very disappointed with this novel. I have heard from so many people that Robin Cook writes such good medical thrillers. So decided to read this book as part of my research into how society and literature depicts geneic engineering in animal species. This was definately the worst book of the many that I read. The plot was unbelievably bad, the characters were underdeveloped and the "bad guys" horribly sterotypic. Additionally the characters behaved in ways that were senseless. There are many other books that deal with this subject/premise. I felt as if I wasted my time with this one.
I recommend Sims by F. Paul Wilson or Dark Inheritance by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Both have more believable characters and offer much more suspense.
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Summary: cardboard science
Review: this novel has a very good premise -- guinea pigs (or in this case, bonobos) starting to evolve as humans. but the book is peopled by cardboard characters, starting from the protagonists -- kevin, jack, laurie; down to the antagonists -- raymond, the mafiosios; these people are so illogical. especially raymond who kept asking the help of the mob boss to solve his problems and in so doing just keep on complicating his problems. kevin on the other hand is such a wimp to be one of the main protagonists. i didn't not empathize with him at all. i was praying that he got caught and killed in the process.
this could have been another jurassic park in terms of its premise but it failed due to the characters.
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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: 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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