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Summary: Best Book I've Read!
Review: From the moment I opened up the first page, I couldn't put this book down. Not very hard to follow and you don't have to be a scientist to like and understand the book.
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Summary: Thrilling Book
Review: I absolutely loved the hot zone not only was it informative but it brings you back to reality on what could happen in our near future. This book has been read by many Docters and all gave it great compliments.
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Summary: VERY GOOD BOOK
Review: VERY GOOD BOOK A MUST BUY TALKS ABOUT EBOLA IN THE WORLD AND HOW IT CAN KILL PEOPLE FASTER THAN MOST OTHER VIRUSES INCLUDING HIV OR AIDS.
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Summary: Better than the andromeda strain
Review: This book was very informative. I have started my own (fiction) book on a virus strain. I have used actual occurances from Reston,MD (a site in this story) to enliven my story. I hope to see more books with this quality out soon.
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Summary: Interesting topic, but poor writing style
Review: Ebola and Marburg are an inherently interesting topic - mysterious, extremly deadly and dramatic in their results. The author does an excellent job of describing the effects and potential dangers to our species from filoviruses. However, the book is flawed in two important ways, the most annoying being the ridiculous amount of trivial detail the author includes, that does nothing but pad out the book and bore the reader.Also it is not made sufficently clear that this is a fictionalised account and that large elements have been based on what the author believes occured. Although scientificaly vaugue and possibly misleading in some places, this is probably still a good read for the general reader interested in the subject. Anyone interested in a more factual account of Ebola should start at the CDC web site.
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Summary: Great
Review: I had to read this book for my 10th grade medical class and I could not put it down
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Summary: An excellent reality check/wake up call . . .
Review: The people panning this book for Preston's writing style just don't get the picture. It's not supposed to be a Dean Koontz piece of eye candy. It's a journalistic description of real events. Get it? Reality; not imagined beasties, but real killers that switch people off in probably the most grizzly way possible. You know how there are forest fires in California pretty much every year and we've finally figured out it's part of the natural thinning process? Well these viruses may represent the same kind of mechanism except they're aimed at humans, not trees. So think the human population is out of control? No problem: An airborne Ebola will whack 90% of us and give the survivors some breathing room, as well as some awfully gooey corpses to clean up.
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Summary: Interesting but non-attention getting
Review: I was required to read this book in my Sophmore Biology class. At the beginning of the book I found it very interesting and desciptive. It kept me wondering what was next but as the book went on the antisipation seemed to stop. The last hundred pages or so were just full of facts. Once I set the book down I felt it more and more difficult to it pick back up as the book went on. In conclusion, if you are looking to do research on filoviruses such as Ebola or Marburg this book is full of information and it could be very helpful.
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Summary: A dose of real science and the terrifying aspect of nature.
Review: The book introduces you to people. Then these people get sick and die, with real viruses. Viruses that exist readilly in todays world. Viruses thatare so close, they can walk up and knock on your back door. Forget the aliens, forget Godzilla, forget Friday the 13th, this is scarier, and it is true.
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Summary: An Intriguing Look Into the Future of Viruses in our World
Review: This is a very interesting and enjoyable book. I would recommend it to anyone looking for an enjoyable read, but who is not particularly intirested in the writing style of this novel. You could see either a strength or weakness in is its short, disconnected sentences. The novel is maninly objective, but the author resorts to giving his opinions on the subject at the very end which I found very eloquent and well written compared to the rest of the novel. However, the short, objectiveness of the sentence, although lacking a definite flow, added to the horrifing reality and the overall effect of the novel. I strongly urge anyone who is intirested in a graphic, exciting, and interesting account of the TRUE history behind the deadly filoviurses and the possibility of a major outbreak in the future to read to read this book. I guarentee you, your perspective on viruses and nature will change forever.
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