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Summary: Very good, scary and exciting. I could not put it down.
Review: I really liked this book. It was scary, exciting and, of course, realistic. The begginning kindof put you thinking that it wasnt going to be very good. I mean the first scentence was: "Charles Monet was a loner." But it got a whole lot better after that. The scariest parts were the parts when he was describing the different stages of the viral infection and the end of the 'hosts' life, by crashing and bleeding out. I started to read thiss book just because I had to, and I was ready for it to reek of bad writing and taste, but I really like it.
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Summary: Interesting subject matter, disappointing execution...
Review: After having heard many good things about this book, I finally decided to give it a try. The subject matter was both fascinating and frightening. However, I found that I was too often distracted by the redundant and heavy-handed nature of the prose. e.g. "The kill rate in humans infected with Ebola Zaire is nine out of ten. Ninety percent of the people who come down with Ebola Zaire die of it. Ebola Zaire is a slate wiper in humans." Passages like the one quoted above reduced my overall enjoyment of the book. In the end, I thought that the book was pretty disappointing.
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Summary: Excellent,informative,and grisly tales of viruses
Review: I thought The Hot Zone was a extremely good. It uses descriptive imagery for people with the viruses and the characters. Overall it was very nice.
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Summary: It was awesome!!!!!!
Review: It was just awesome! I had to read this book for english and I thought when I first got it that it was just another dull book that we had to read. But then I started to read it and I thought that it was really cool! Richard Preston is an excelent writer.
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Summary: Wow. Oh my God. It blew me away.
Review: Wow. This book is very suspenseful. If you're reading this, you've probably read synopses from the publisher and professional book reviewers, so I don't have to tell you about that. One of the best plots I have ever read! Yes, I said plots. Preston keeps jumping everywhere. Like Stephen King said in his quote on the back of the book, the opening was the most horrific thing I have ever read. Great story for 3/4 of the book, but it starts to go downhill from there. The ending of a book is supposed to better than the opening, right? Truely not the case here. The opening was the best part of the book. As you got to the end, the book just pooped out on you, like a plane stalling. The end just trailed off. But overall, it was a very interesting book. I think I learned more from that book than any other book I have read. This book's suspense and freakiness was enhanced for me because I live very close to Reston, VA, and I never knew about the Ebola virus outbreak there. Many of the reviews on this book say how it is so graphically violent. Well, only in a few parts of the book. So don't get misled by that. If you have a weak stomach, go ahead and read it. If you're one of those people who only like books with "hard gore, graphically violent" storylines, then you may not like it. You learn more about the science of diseases and Ebola than learning how to describe someone dying. I think this book is geared more for people who are interested in scientific plots. Not necessarily sci-fi plots with green little Martians. More like Michael Chrichton plots--TERMINAL MAN, ANDROMEDA STRAIN, etc. This book was for me and all you other people out there who like those types of plots. But even if you don't like scientific plots, read it anyway.
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Summary: This book was really awesome.
Review: I am a seventh grader and I read this book when I was in fifth grade. I was sucked into it...I couldn't stop reading. It took me about seven hours to read it non-stop. It goes into very graphic detail, so I wouldn't recommend it to people with weak stomachs. It describes the deadliness of this "man-eating" diease. It is really suspensful, and I would gladly read it again and again just to re-live the experience.
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Summary: Whoever gave this book less than a 10 must be scared silly
Review: This was the most facinating Non-Fiction book that I have ever read. It is so graphic and chilling and knowing that it is a real virus gives you nightmares!
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Summary: goose bump alert
Review: I thought this book was great and a real eye opener. As a nurse, I can identify with the chain of events as this virus enters the human body. I was surprised to see even just a few poor reviews of this book, but it may be attributed to readers feeling of helplessness and the possibility of this actually happening. I rated it an eight instead of higher, because I felt that at times, he jumped back and forth between the similar viruses so quickly, that I had a hard time remembering which was which. I never knew or heard that any of this happened till I read the book and I guess mass hysteria is the reason for the hush. I highly recommend this book as an educational insight of what we might be facing in the future.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: this book I thought was decent until I found out it was non fiction. I sat thinking for days on the impact such diseases coul
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Summary: It just seemed stupid.
Review: True: the topic addressed is frightening, interesting, and well worth reading about. But after struggling through this book, I find myself wondering if the point was to enlighten readers or to blast them with gory sensationalism. Every other teenager at my school seemed to have read it and all of them told me so, giggling, "Oooh, blood, I loved it." To me, the in-your-face gory accounts seemed like such an obvious gimmick. I guess part of what bugs me about this book is that the author has a great style. He could make it with one of those thrillers that get made into zillion dollar movies. But why would you want to read about a subject like AIDS in a thriller format? Oh, well. I guess this book was fated to be written eventually, though; I'm sure that if Richard Preston hadn't written it, then someone else would have gotten around to it
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