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Summary: Ok, It Wasn't his best, but it's another of his scary ideas
Review: This wasn't the best Robin Cook I've ever read, it wasn't even the best Robin Cook with Jack and Laurie as main characters. But it did keep me flipping the pages to get to the climax. Unfortunately the ending seemed a bit contrived and the non-New York characters were poorly developed. I didn't notice so much with the characters from the medical examiner's office in New York because most of them have been in other Cook novels I've read.Still and all the premise of the book was enough to keep me reading. I was not totally comfortable with transgenic technology before I read the book, now I'm even less comfortable.
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Summary: Not Robin Cook's Best
Review: The premise of this book was most intriguing but the character development was poor. The main character seemed almost like a rehash of characters found in previous novels by Cook. The scientific details were fascinating and obviously a lot of research went into these details. The geographic descriptions were also quite vivid but the ending was most abrupt and extremely poorly written. This could either be the fault of the author who lost interest by the last chapter or else the editor was overzealous and did a hatchet job on it. Either way, it was most disappointing. If you feel a need to read it, buy a used copy.
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Summary: Exciting story, poor ending
Review: This is the only Robin Cook book that I have read so far. I found it to be very interesting and exciting. The medical stuff wasn't too deep that an ordinary person couldn't at least understand it to a certain extent. Plus there is a glossary of terms at the back of the book. But...the beef that I have with it, is the poor ending. I was getting so excited during the last third of the book, but the ending was so abrupt, it was like getting the wind knocked out of you. It left a lot of questions up in the air. Maybe he left it open for a part 2, I don't know. But I do wish we could know what happened with GenSys and the research facility in Cogo. Also, what happens to the Bonobos? What about Kevin, Melanie and Candace? So many questions left unanswered.
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Summary: Poor writing
Review: This is the only Robin Cook book I've ever read, and I have to say that it isn't much of a recommendation for his other books. It had a semi-interesting idea, which unfortunately was totally buried in pages and pages of boring and badly paced story. The main characters at some points make leaps of logic that even Einstein wouldn't have been capable of, and yet at other times, seem totally stupid and incompetent (so much so that a reader such as myself, with no scientific background, was way ahead of the supposed medical experts in terms of what was going on). The end was too abrupt and anticlimactic, the characters were one dimensional, and for some inexplicable reason, Cook spent hundreds of pages dwelling on points that are totally unimportant to the story. I was tempted to skip large parts of the book because they were so boring. To basically sum this book up: Throughout the novel, two of the characters, Jack and Laurie, trying to figure out something that the reader knew from the very beginning. A badly written, boring waste of time.
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Summary: A strangely written story...
Review: I had a hard time keeping up with the plot of "Chromosome 6." This story about biotech experimentation mingled with the mafia seems to drag on and on in places with sub-plots that have no impact or meaning in the end. Robin Cook spends a lot of time in the story developing certain characters that again have no significance in the "big picture." He also teases the readers with the possibility of romance and relationships between two sets of heros/heroines, but never delivers. Toward the last 50 - 75 pages, the story really picks up and promises a "bang" of an ending, but the final pages fizzle out if you ask me. I was disappointed; Robin Cook is capable of much better work.
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Summary: Great story but the author must have lost steam at the end
Review: I haven't read many Robin Cook stories, but I really enjoyed the premise of this book, which I listened to as an audiobook in my car to and from work. I also liked the characters, which is why I am so disappointed with the almost anti-climactic end. The reader is left in the air over the fate of some of the characters after all is said and done with. What became of Kevin, Melanie, and Candice in the end, not to mention the Cogo facility and its inhabitants there? Were the Binobos able to remain free in the wilds of Africa, despite the presence of their locators? C'mon Robin, ya left me hanging!
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Summary: Awesome entertainment!!
Review: Robin Cook truly expresses the horrors of genetic engineering gone wrong.A young scientist in the deep jungles of Equatorial Guinea tries a Hi tech experiment with bonobos and finds out he has created a class of entirely different creatures! Meanwhile in the USA,Jack and Laurie r puzzled by the death of a mobster and the disappearance of his body.Their search and passion for adventure leads them to the same jungles of Africa where they encounter Kevin,the young scientist and xperience the horrors of his experiment gone wrong. The book has a lot of complex genetics involved and the reader has to be quite well versed with the concepts of meiosis,transponases etc..But the action and mystery and the horror is worth doing some research.If anyone hasn`t read a Robin Cook novel,this isthe best one to start with.Ittruly deserves the five stars.
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Summary: An unexpected ending (sooner than expected)
Review: The story is based on a great premise, but the writing is unbalanced. It takes a great amount of time to set the stage, then everything ends very abruptly. It's almost as if someone said "Pencils down!"
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Summary: Good Idea, Terrible Writing
Review: The idea for this book was clever, but it had some of the worst dialogue I've ever read. All the characters spoke like an article in a medical journal, not realistic at all, with the exception of Black characters, who threw in an occasional "Hey man" or "You know what I'm sayin". That brings me to another problem with the book: it was stereotypical. The evil German villian with the scar, the Italian mobsters, etc. Most people's reviews say they were let down at the end, but for me, I was just happy it was over( I had to read it for school).
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Summary: Back as a freshman...
Review: As a freshman in High School, my Biology teacher assigned this book to the class to read and write a report on. This was the first book I read by Cook, and I greatly enjoyed it. This was the first assigned reading book that I actually enjoyed reading, but not only did I love the book, I've gone on to read more books by him. To my amazement, many of the people in the class with me, people who I didn't think would read more books by Cook, read other Cook books (pun not intended, really...) The book really kept you on your feet, but is also educational, and I really enjoyed it.
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