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Summary: I'll Save You the Money
Review: The secret to this book is to go to a bookstore and read the first two chapters. They are great and riveting. Thereafter it is stale and rather painful. It is a "true story" and is terrifying to think of in terms of what could have happened in our own backyard. Nevertheless, pay attention to my warning and definitely do yourself the favor of reading two chapters before deciding whether to order it. If you stop at 2 chapters, you will have received 90% of what the book has to offer.
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Summary: It's like swallowing a bowling ball for a hypochondriac..
Review: Richard Preston's The Hot Zone is a horrifying true story about an Ebola outbreak in the outskirts of DC, though the tital can constrew different images. This bone-chilling encounter tugs the reluctant reader through a graphic tale that describes hot viruses such as Ebola and Marbug in oh-so-much detail. Preston's opener is the experience of "Charles Monet", a French born man residing in Africa. Monet has his first hot virus encounter when traveling near Mt. Elgon in Africa. Though the precise beginning of his contraction of Marbug is unknown, the course of the virus wreaking havoc on Monet's body is known too well. The after exposure effects can be described using delightful and apetite inducing phrases such as "bleeding out", which, true to the words, consists of the host oozing out every last drop of blood. Yum. If the first section of the book doesn't successfully give you the heebie jeebies (which I'm almost certain was its intended purpose), the second part will definitely do the trick. This time the virus outbreak is in the USA, right outside of Washington DC. Talk about hitting close to home! If you're not reeling with disgust by this time in the novel, as soon as Preston starts describing a vicious biohazard operation involving savage monkies now "bleeding out", you're sure to be running for the toliet. All in all, it took me a while to get through Richard Preston's nonfiction novel The Hot Zone for multiple reasons: way too graphic for a weak stomached girl; to me, nonfiction is like swalling a horse pill whole; a conscious fear that Ebola Zaire was breeding in my body as I was turning the pages. My suggestion is for hypochondriacs to flush this nonfiction work down the toliet and stick to stuff on the Oprah Book Club list before there's an Ebola Sudan scare.
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Summary: My comments
Review: I think it is so powerful. I did like it a lot. Very dramatic, suspenceful, and very awesome book. The author did a great job! I would like to read more of his books. It is funny too. SEND ME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HIS BOOKS!
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Summary: Re-cap
Review: This was a very interesting and scary book. To think that we had that virus in our own continent! Man It scares the mess out of you, but at the same time you can't put the book down. something was always happening to keep you locked in.
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Summary: review
Review: The hot zone was very interesting, in terms of viruses and how they try to treat them. The hot zone was the place where the viruses were kept for intent to find out how they work and what they look like on certain species. The book was unbelievably exciting. The surgins were always indangered with coming in contact with the Ebola virus. I would really recommend this book for all age groups, high school and up. The book will keep you excited and will also knowledge you with the Ebola virus and how they work with this virus.
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Summary: I Can't Believe This Is Non-Fiction!
Review: This was such a great book. The entire time I was reading it I had to keep reminding myself that it was real, that this actually happened. I thought that Richard Preston, the author, did a wonderful job of researching this and did an awesome job with description. This gruesome tale was so realistic it made me want to been in a space suit at times. If you have never read this book its a must. I have never read a book like it before. If you want to see the movie that was based on this book, Outbreak, don't expect it to be the same as the book. The movie is very different, but I still enjoyed it. This horrifying encounter with the Ebola Virus in the book definitely gives a wake up call to readers. The scary part is that you can't see it, smell it, hear it, feel it, or taste it. But if you get it, you have a 90 to 100 percent chance of dying within 12 days. Imagine that! Talk about a horror story, well this isn't, this is real and I learned a lot from this. I learned that these lethal viruses are still with us today and that Mother Nature has a lot more control than we give her credit for.
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Summary: Preston Prefection
Review: I read this book when i was in Seventh grade, I was captivated by the power of a microbe. It got me turned on to microbiology and the sciences. Reading about the mortality of the viruses scared the ...... of me. Read this and find out what might be the next world plague.
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Summary: Wonderfully spun piece of literature
Review: Richard Preston weaves a graphic tale of how a disease can move quickly and deadly into the lives of every man, woman, and child. I could scarcely put it down. Not only that, since it's a true novel, it made me wonder how easily this could happen again.
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Summary: Precarious Predicament! Ebola Wildfire!
Review: ...I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this book! Iwas totally engrossed in it for a few chapters, thinking it wasscience fiction, until I take a better look at the cover and see thewords, "A Terrifying True Story." TRUE?? I had absolutely noclue! Such a frightening story could never be true, could it? Thoughit was a very abrupt eye opener to me on the truths of life, I ratherenjoyed it. It is now my favorite book, but don't read it if you can'thandle your nightmares. I have frequent dreams much like the ones oneof the characters had about laboratory monkeys chasing her with anebola needle..*shudder* All in all, a terrific book, written withlavish language and rich details that bring the ebola killer to lifefor the reader...
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Summary: Frightening, Alarming and Provocative - A Gripping Book
Review: Frightening, Alarming and Provocative, this gripping book takes you into the world of the Marberg, Ebola Sudan and Ebola Zaire viruses - Level 4 viruses. You read how these viruses liquefy human beings from the inside out in just ten days time. They are fast and thorough; "The virus killed nine out of ten people infected by it and there was no vaccine or cure for it." In 1989 this virus broke out in Virginia, when a large group of monkeys imported from the Philippines started to die from a strain of Ebola only know to kill monkeys - not humans. Richard Preston gives us a view into the microscopic world of viruses that will for ever change you thinking. Highly Recommended
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