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Summary: It's like performing neuro-surgery;can't wait til it's over
Review: I liked the book due to it's graphic content, and big words that even docters would have a hard time with. I didn't like the book, because it couldn't hold my attention for very long, and I don't appreciate falling asleep while I'm reading.I assume that Robin Cook got bored, and just jotted down a bunch of big, unexplainable words, to TRY to make it sound interesting. He failed miserably with this book. I'd recmmend this book to any poor soul who is obsessed with medical fiction, and wants to try to clone themselves so they can take over the world.I'm not a science person.If you can sit me down and make me read a horror story, and in my mind I can put myself in that situation, then you've got me interested
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Summary: Excellent plot, and theme! All around awesome book!
Review: This book provided a masterful plot and theme, Excellent characterization, and it was just an all around great book. A must read for any book lover!
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Summary: Help!
Review: I had such high hopes for Robin Cook. The premise and story line of the book are quite promising but I was very disappointed in the two-dimensional characterizations of the characters in Africa. The development of the New York-based characters was better. Can anyone recommend a Robin Cook book with more life-like characters?
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Summary: This was a pretty cool book!
Review: This was a good novel except for the end. Jack and his group got back to New York and nothing much happened, but then even worse, the interesting half, Kevin's group, just suddenly were not to be heard of. Other than the flat ending, this book was good. Kinda predictable but still worthy of a good 4 stars. This was the first Cook book I have read but I already have 2 more and I plan to get more.
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Summary: Engaging read, but a lot of defects
Review: It was a book that was quite hard to put down as the story got more exciting towards the end. Especially when you don't think much about the science, then you can be convinced that it is that easy to humanize bonobo apes. But scientific things aside, you lose sense of what happened to the characters. They all run into each other at the end, but what happens to the potential romance between Kevin and Candace (Candace unfortunately becomes reduced to an obeying automaton to Melanie and loses pretty much her individuality) and the potential romance between Jack and Laurie (perhaps some of us want to see whether Jack "softens" at the end and admits his affection towards Laurie??)? Instead, we lose touch of Laurie, who just seems to follow orders from the guys, ie, Kevin, Jack, and Warren. Does a vacation in the equator really do this to a smart, independent, and admirable woman like her? And maybe it would have been more exciting to see Vinnie Amendola get a good punch from Jack; after all, Vinnie needs an attitude adjustment! Of course, there is also the question of what really happens to the 70+ transgenic bonobos. Will they survive in the forest as small groups, individuals, or one migrating group, and where will they end up? Good thing there is no pan-African (no pun intended) FDA or Jeremy Rifkin equivalent! Siegfried could have raised hell and start mobilizing the (hopefully sober) troops to shoot most of the bonobos, knowing the whole operation is in jeopardy! I found Kevin's remorse and resolution to amend his scientific "sins" by releasing the bonobos so corny. The argument of early man surviving the Pleistocene ice age was kind of shallow. Suddenly, Melanie would agree to this and join the rest of the group, jeopardizing everybody's narrow escape for the sake of fulfilling Kevin's "noble" intentions! The characters lose consistency. What of Raymond? And his relationship to the younger Darlene? The reader's vicarious relationship to the characters vanishes into thin air just like that, as the book's ending was rushed obviously! Oh, well...
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Summary: Great!,,,very intriguing....not so good ending
Review: This book is very great. It pulled me in from the very beginning. Although the ending was a bit dull, the rest of the book made it one of Cook's best novels!
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Summary: Mildly entertaining at times but mostly flat and lifeless.
Review: Cook has definately NOT outdone himself this time. The story line is rather unsuspenseful and predictable and the main characters are not completely believable. Chromosome 6 is a dissapointment when compared with Coma, Brain, and Acceptable Risk.
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Summary: medical suspence with a twisting plot
Review: very good book from several view points, many smaller stories come together at once with a climatic ending.
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Summary: This is on of the best books I have ever read
Review: Chromosome 6 is one of the best books I have ever read. Once you read the first page you are hooked right to the end. I work in the health profession so was fascinated by the medical details the author gives thruout the book (but even if you have no medical knowledge this is a must read).
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Summary: Pretty Good, but could have been brought to a higher level
Review: +AH4-The book kept my interest all the way to the end, because Iwanted to know how it was going to end. The plot was great, but I thought he did use all of it's potential. This book had hardly any suspense and had no mystery effects on the reader at all except how was it going to end. I guess I was hopeing for him to put Island of Dr. Monroe effect in! The ending was like everybody else says abrupt and could have had more effort into it. Overall I give this book 3 stars, because it was+AH4-+AH4- entertaing at some times. And it was mostly a clean book. Not that much foul language or bad content, which I enjoy as a reader. I don't like to read trash! This book should be read on a cold winter day when there's not much to d+AH4-
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