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Summary: Suspence story that keep you on your toes.
Review: Excellent story that puts you in touch with the world of pathology and with a twist of the crime elements in the world. Would highly recommend it for an long weekend drive. Will keep you in suspense.
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Summary: The prose is stilted and character development lacking.
Review: This was the first (and last) book that I will read from Robin Cook. If his bedside manner is as stilted and pedantic as is his novel, no wonder he is writing for a living. The potential was there for a keep-me-awake-at-night page turner: characters with promise, hair-raising-it-could-happen plot, some bad guys, some good guys, an exotic setting, all fallen to ruin for lack of talent. Alas, if only Michael Crighton or even Dean Koontz had written it!
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Summary: This book was absolutely awesome!
Review: Good use of drama. Keeps you in suspense until the very end
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Summary: What an absolute pleasure this book was!
Review: I happen to be a Medical student, and at the time I was reading this (at night after the usual eighteen hour work-study day), I was smack-dab in the middle of a semester's worth of Molecular Genetics. Needless to say, I was saturated with thoughts of all the possible premises and directions this biological thriller could take. Even with such high expectations, I was awe-struck by the philosophical and scientific implications that genetic engineering can pose in so many directions at such an infinitesimal discovery (like the molecular structure of a rare transponase) and change the world! What a vision! Next to Outbreak, this is Dr. Cook's finest!
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Summary: Good idea, but...
Review: The concept of the book is good; however, the style of writing falls short at times.
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Summary: Great book!
Review: I picked this book out because of its medical sounding name. I love science fiction [does this book qualify as one? It *is* science, it *is* fiction...], and have read quite a few books by well-known authors.After spending a few days reading the book, I am impressed by the way Robin Cook explains medical terms through dialougue. Its a really great book, and you just have to see for yourself how good it is. One thing is that Robin Cook fails to maintain some suspense; he reveals too much sometimes. Still, Chromosome 6 makes agood read.
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Summary: One of the best he's written
Review: This is a great book, definitely a page turner. Being a Robin Cook fan I was familiar with the characters and enjoyed even the new characters. Great for readers who enjoy medical thrillers or just suspensful novels. It is kind of technical but the context makes it easy reading. Simply a great book.
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Summary: Scary concept, but poor writing
Review: Not being a Robin Cook fan, this book attracted me with its scary premise of tinkering with human evolution. The book starts out great, but one dimensional characters and telegraphing of the outcome ruined the story about one thrird in. Cook has neat ideas, but his writing snd plot skills are weak. I just couldn't suspend my disbelief of the stupidity of some characters and the introduction of plot twists, particularly including the crime world.
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Summary: First Robin Cook book I have read, makes me want more
Review: I couldn't put this book down. It kept me in suspense all the time. I did expect more from the ending, though. I will certainly read more of his books.
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Summary: Slow, but readable
Review: Nowhere near his classics of Coma and Sphinx. If you are looking for a book for a long transcontinental flight, this is not it, it will not keep you reading on and on. You will come back to it though, if not for anything else then just to find out what the end will be, which in it self is not that great either.
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