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Summary: a wonderful extremely exciting adventourous thriller
Review: I highly recomend you read this amazing book. If your looking for some good factual reading, this is THE BOOK/ but good luck trying to find information about the author.
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Summary: A book for public awarenes
Review: Richard Preston's "Hot Zone" is an exciting description of Ebola outbreaks in recent years. Preston gives an insight in scientific aspects through interviews with the people who are the pioneers in studying Ebola strains, replacing the scientific terms in most cases with everyday life terms, making his writing easy to follow.Fourthermore it goes beyond description as it troubles the readers with some deep questions on the nature of those outbreks: are they caused by the environmental instability in tropical rainforests we witness in the 20th century or are they brought up because of the higher flow of information from remote areas of the planet? Whatever is true, this book comes as an alert to the public about the consequences of human activities. Awarenes of the public in scientific discoveries and their impact on humans and the environment is more than necessary those days (ie "Biohazard" by Ken Alinbek describing the biological weapons programme of the former Soviet Union). The full truth of filoviruses is not yet uncovered, as carefully explained in the last chapter which demonstrates that science has usually more failures than successes.
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Summary: This is the scariest book I have ever read.
Review: Wow! I never realized how great the threat of Ebola is to mankind until I read this book. I like the way Richard Preston goes into detail when explaining the symptoms and the steps the victoms go through before the finally die. I think the interviews during the book are a plus because we get a chance to see how the people involved went through and how they felt about the situation.
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Summary: Richard Preston's The Hot Zone
Review: Richard Preston's The Hot Zone has been my favorite book since seventh grade; I am in 9th now. It has inspired me to persue virology as my career, as I have to look for a college very soon. I recommend this book for anyone not easily "grossed out" by mild gore and mild language. It is a fast read for me and it flows easily; I trust that others will enjoy it also.
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Summary: What would you expect from a reporter?
Review: Nothing like a sensationalistic, glorified, half-truth... Although an interesting fiction tale, this book comes nothing close to the actual events that transpired in Reston, VA. You want a real virus book? Keep looking, this one isn't worth it.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: This is the best book I have ever read. It was so real and seemed like it was happening to you. It wasn't difficult to read and flowed easily. Some scenes are very gross, like when the people start to spit up blood and everything but it was a great book and I reccommend it to anyone and everyone. GRRRRREAT!!!
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Summary: I thought it was too long and boring
Review: This book repeats itself in every chapter,...people die from Ebola or The Marburg disease....monkeys die, people die, and that is it... I would not recommend it to anyone!
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Summary: Terrifyingly True Tale
Review: This is one of the best books I read (I refer to it in the present tense because I am always reading some part of it). I was hooked from the first tale of Charles Monet. It brought me into Preston's world of a death so gruesome that's murdurer is smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. I found the glossary at the end a help with the military slang words. The most haunting aspect of this book is that its true; it follows the evolutions of the Marbug and Ebola viruses. This was the only non-fiction book that I ever liked. This book is graphic though, and is not for the light of... stomach.
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Summary: HOW I FOUND THE STORY
Review: THE HOT ZONE began one day in 1992 when I was looking for an idea for a magazine article for The New Yorker. I wanted to write about viruses. At first the AIDS virus seemed the natural choice, but a lot had been written about AIDS. Then on that interesting day in 1992 I was doing a background interview with a virologist, Professor Joshua Lederberg at the Rockefeller University in New York, and I asked him if he knew of any interesting viruses. He mentioned Ebola. He said there'd been a frightening outbreak of Ebola in Washington a few years earlier, which had been dealt with by the U.S. Army -- by soldiers wearing space suits, killing monkeys. He added, "Well, you probably know about it." "God, no. How do I learn more?" I said. "I have no idea. Call the Army," he said. So I did. Eventually I got permission to interview the Army officers who'd led the Ebola mission. Among them were Colonels Nancy and Jerry Jaax, husband and wife--and eventually they become leading figures in THE HOT ZONE. In that very first interview with Nancy Jaax, she told me the story of how she'd gotten a leak in her space suit, and her glove had filled up with Ebola blood, while she'd had a cut on her hand. It was a gripping story. So in the first interview I had one of the key scenes in the book. THE HOT ZONE has since been translated into 30 languages and has sold millions of copies around the world. I welcome e-mail and try to answer it. My other books are THE HOT ZONE, AMERICAN STEEL, and FIRST LIGHT.
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Summary: Got to read
Review: Great book on fictional yet realistic world situation
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