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Summary: This book changed my life!
Review: The first chapter was the most horrifying things I ever read in my whole live... and then it got worse. That's what keeps me reading it keep getting worse! Just as you think it can't get any worse it dose in horrible sick and twisted ways. As I kept reading it kept getting more disturbing and I wanted more. I could not stop reading; I did not want to stop. This horrifying true story has any Stephen King book beat by a long shot. I recommend that everyone read it at lest once in their lifetime. It made me see how fragile we are and all we have crated rely is and that we only live here at natures will.
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Summary: The nightmarish world of the unseen.....
Review: Superbly written and scary, scary, scary. Sometimes killers simply cannot be seen....
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Summary: The Hot Zone
Review: I read the book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. The Story of the book is about two of the most deadly diseases in the world, Ebola and Marburg. I really enjoyed reading the book.
The story of the book was very exciting. It had all the things that a good book needs. It had suspense, humor, horror, and many more emotions. As every page was turned you felt a new emotion. It starts out with the first discovered case of Marburg, in the heart of Africa. It then goes into many more mini-outbreaks of the disease and how it works. It tells how it kills it victims. It goes on to tell of the discovery of Ebola. There are three different strains of Ebola in the world. They are called Ebola Zaire, Ebola Sudan, and Ebola Reston. Each of them is deadly but Ebola Reston is somehow different. The story also involves the army institute USAMRIDD. This institute works much like the CDC does. It tries to find cures of new and emerging diseases in the world and how to protect the nation from bio-terrorism. Several people in USAMRIDD have had scares with these particular diseases. Nancy Jaxx has an especially scary encounter with it that will make you break out in cold sweat wondering what is going to happen to her. There are many good points of the book. You will love this story.
I loved The Hot Zone. I thought the way that it managed to pull you into the story and make you want to turn the page very good. Very few books have that power that just makes you want to learn what is going to happen next. This book is a true story so it makes it all the more terrifying. It makes my skin crawl that there are organisms out there that can kill me in less than 3 days. I loved reading about the science and the simplicity of the deadliness of these creatures. I am happy to learn that the men and woman at USAMRIDD are working day and night to figure out what can fight these diseases. I would recommend this book to anybody who has even the remotes likeness to science. I would still recommend that everybody pick this book up.
To sum up my thoughts the book was wonderful. It had all the things I liked in a story. It made me think of all the places that have to deal with these sorts of viruses that the USA doesn't. The book is recommended to anyone who likes reading.
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Summary: First book assigned from school i actually liked.
Review: This was assigned for summer reading, and it was the most enjoyable read i have had in a long time. I could not put this down. At times i could hardly believe that this was a true story. This was some scary stuff, but i highly reccomend it to everyone.
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Summary: An Unforgetable Adventure
Review: Richard Preston's historical accounts of the imfamous Ebola virus has enough strength to twist the stomach of the most robust of individuals. One can hardly imagine how a particle a thousand times smaller than the period at the end of this sentance can replicate into a killing machine which literally liquifies a person from the inside out. Preston indulges into the origins of this deadly contagion and what our government does to prevent it from slipping into our homeland. Or worse yet, how they will prevent it from happening again. The Hot Zone definately takes the reader through an unforgetable adventure which explores the grim reality of a world encroaching upon mother nature and how she fights back.
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Summary: Terrifying
Review: Ebola Virus. Just the name causes dread among those who have any idea what it is. Preston has traced the four strains of Ebola (three of them intensely fatal to humans) to their source in the Great Lakes region of central Africa --the same area that gave birth to the AIDS virus. He has done his homework, chronicling the periodic outbreaks, including one in a monkey research center in Virginia in 1989. Ebola's gruesome symptoms and high mortality rate mean that it does not reside naturally in human hosts, but lurks in some other -as yet unidentified- host species in Africa. It could be living peacefully in elephants or lizards, and then periodically it crosses species and creates horrifying killer epidemics. It never goes away, it just goes back into hiding. Preston demonstrates that Ebola is both capable of becoming airborne (i.e. can be transmitted in the breath of a victim) and of killing humans quickly. There is nothing to say that its next mutation -perhaps next year- won't wipe out 90% of human life. Ouch.A terrifying page-turner. Even at 400 pages in the paperback edition, you'll read it in a weekend.
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Summary: The Hot Zone
Review: This book was so exciting i couldn't even put it down. I read the whole book in a day and that is not my usual reading speed. I just couldn't put it down! It was unbelievable to find out that all of this information was happening so close to where my family and I live. It was scarey and yet i couldn't wait to see what happened next. I would recommend the book to anyone who can stomach the gross details of how EBOLA eats your body from the inside out till you die. I hope it never is exposed to this area again.....
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Summary: Couldn't put it down..
Review: Living and working in the Northern Va area made this book especially intriguing. I can remember the publicity when this event occurred but never heard the real inside story. The author explains in explicit detail the effects of these deadly virus's on the human body & the potential devastating results to mankind. It takes you deep inside of science of these deceases on a level easy to understand. As well as a fascinating journey into the life of bug hunters working in this dangerous field. Its hard to believe this actually happened.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down..
Review: Living and working in the Northern Va area made this book especially intriguing. I can remember the publicity when this event occurred but never heard the real inside story. Now working in Reston I drive by places depicted in this book on a daily basis. It freaks me out every time. The author explains in explicit detail the effects of these deadly virus's on the human body & the potential devastating results to mankind. It takes you deep inside of science of these deceases on a level easy to understand. As well as a fascinating journey into the life of bug hunters working in this dangerous field. Its hard to believe this actually happened.
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Summary: Brilliant.
Review: One of my favorite books. It is an essential part of anyones literary diet who has any remote interest in science. Frighteningly descriptive, preston's gripping descriptions of these deadly filoviruses is just as frightening each time you read it. Even the remote possibility that you will contract such a viruse is absolutely thrillilng. This book ended far too soon, and is an excellent book for anyone who needs a few hourse of suspense and horror. I look forward to re-reading it!
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