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Summary: How did Robin Cook get famous?
Review: This book has some of the worst, most robotic and un-natural sounding dialogue I have ever encountered. The protagonist is supposed to be an ego-driven surgeon but he is more of a sociopath than anything. If this is the quality of Dr. Cook's writing in all his novels, it is incomprehensible to me how he became a best-seller. There is not a chance that I would ever read another of his novels.
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Summary: This book was a modern Sinclair "The Jungle" .
Review: I thought the plot was very similar to his other books but the setting was different. E-Coli is a potential danger to us all and Cook opened my thoughts to this chilling threat. I don't eat hamburger anymore and cook all my steaks very well done.
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Summary: Suspensfull and Real!!
Review: I never wanted to put the book down; it always kept me thinking and wanting to know what was going to happen next.
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Summary: IT WAS VERY INTERESTING READING
Review: WE SHOULD NOT ALWAYS TRUST THE FAST FOOD OUTLETS ESPECIALY WHEN THE KIDS PUT ON PRESSURE FOR A QUICK HAMBURGER, TOXIN WAS A REAL EYE OPENER i DONT THINK i WILL GO FOR A HAMBURGER IN A HURRY AGAIN, WOULD RATHER CHECK OUT THE FAST FOOD OUTLET FIRST OR USE A WELL KNOWN OUTLET AND CHECK THAT OUT FIRST AS WELL.
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Summary: True to form,Dr.Cook is best at telling a medical adventure!
Review: right from the start, the book sucks you in and you cannot put it down.What is so terrifying is that we all know this is really going on within the beef industry. Unfortunately it has become a matter of profit that has become more important than the contamination of our food source. Robin Cook made this graphically clear when he took us out onto the kill floor. You wonder how anyone can eat meat again, once they've read Toxin. Great book, well written and well researched.
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Summary: interesting
Review: this was a good look at the truth behind the beef industry. this book made me glad that i have become a vegetarian. the efforts of dr. kim are very believable and you can actually feel sorry for the guy.
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Summary: Amazing, riveting, you can't put it down!
Review: Dealing with e coli is not pretty, and this book takes you into a world of disease, foul play, intricate planning, and what is pretty much a plot to keep bottom lines up. This book is a 90's version of the Jungle, except that it moves MUCH faster and there is not as much of a feeling of the author being up on a soapbox. A great read!
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Summary: tripe
Review: Is this the dumbest book ever written by an established author? By a country mile. Make that a country parsec.
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Summary: An excellent book for Grisham fans as well ...
Review: Unfortunately, the five star rating excludes opinion based on the happy-ending principle. If it were, I would have removed a star. However, the book is fantastic otherwise, and a slight alteration in storyline stereotype by Dr. Cook. I followed one surgeon's life through drastic change as he fought the uncontrollable evils that left him helpless in the wake of his daughter's illness. Dr. Cook, for the first time so dramatically, showed not just how impacting a disease can be on a very local level (as opposed to the epidemic standards we're used to from the author), but how the human spirit and personality can evolve magnanimously via a force oppressionable enough. The book was mostly unpredictable, with a "how-will-he-stop-the-bad-guys" rather than a "who-did-it" sort of mystery. And the emotional ride along was a treat, accurately in my opinion stirring tears and laughs where they should appropriately be. And the underlying issues of the story are on cue with the "lone-ranger" syndrome of John Grisham's RUNNAWAY JURY, or THE FIRM, in which it's just one guy against the gigantic corporate evils that ultimately put profit above human life. Also, TOXIN is the most graphically descriptive Robin Cook book I have ever read! From severed heads tho shredded hearts to pieces of cow organs spittering and splatting on you from apocalyptic conveyer belts, this book was effective enough to get across a pointedly remarkable social issue! Robin Cook does it again! Read it!
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Summary: No more ground meat for me!
Review: After reading this book, which was excellent, I have decided to go vegetarian. OK, so I still will eat fish, chicken, and the other white meat. But no more cows! This book got an A+++++ in my book! Go to your bookstore, library, or whatever and read it!
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