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Summary: Not Normal Cook
Review: This is not a normal Robin Cook medical thriller. It's a fast read and not too deep. The premise is similar to Abyss, but without Abyss' excitement.
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Summary: I LOVED THIS BOOK
Review: I coulldnt set it down it was a nice change from Robin's usual books I can't belive it's got such bad reviews I WOULD DEFINATLY read this book! He discribes this other world so well that I really felt as if I was right there with the charecters. READ THIS BOOK ignore the other bad reviews
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Summary: GOOD STORY LOW TENSION
Review: This is my first book of Robin Cook. I knew him mostly from his medical books. Abduction starts very good but the second half of the book is a bit boring far away from being thriller. In anyway, it is a good book. It also has some criticism to violence of humanbeing. A journey to the Fantasy Land. Deep down ocean.. Have a good trip...
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Summary: Please tell me the other Robin Cook books are better!
Review: This was the first and probably last Robin Cook novel for me. I was disappointed after hearing so many positive comments on his medical thrillers. The "fantasy world under the sea" science fiction in this book lacked several components, including plausibility and interesting dialogue. Many comic book heros have more dimensions than the stock, predictable characters in this novel. A plot twist in the last pages is the only original idea in the otherwise stale material.
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Summary: This is as bad as it gets - Trust me on this one!
Review: I have always found Robin cook to be a rather poor writer, and that seems to be a trais shared by other MD's turned authors. However, that has not prevented me from reading several books by Robin Cook and, for the most part, enjoying them to varying degrees.The strength of Cook's other work was that he stuck to what he knew - medicine. Granted, the writing was sophomoric and the plot usually the same old recycled "Docs stealing bodyparts/drugs/fill in the blank for profit" plot but the ride was usually pleasantly diverting and painless. TILL NOW! This book offends just about every sense that it can, from the absurdly childish plotting to the incredibly hack nature of the prose. This book actually insults cliche's...it sooo bad I can barely find words to describe my amazament at the book - (The horror - the horror..) Be warned - books rarely get as bad as this. It is poorly plotted, written, conceived. That any of the characters in the book can be viewed favorably is impossible. Everyone's a dolt or selfish or stupid. (No one is as stupid as me for actually reading this to the end - just shoot me for god's sake) Have I made it clear? A 1st grader could tell a more compelling and captivating story. It's too late for me - but save yourself - Don't read this garbage!
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Summary: Yep this one's purty near awful
Review: Everything my fellow reviewers have said about this book is true. It is the first (since Coma) Robin Cook I've read. I read it because I thought he has been at the business of writing for so long, he has to have gotten good at it. And the premise sounded interesting (not shockingly new, mind you...but interesting). I nearly got out my red pen and went after several passages. There are several howlers...all unintentional. The characters ARE irritating and their actions make NO sense. BUT I give this two stars (instead of one or a half) because the plot DID keep me reading until the end. Now that must be worth something! So style is absent. So the characters are ludicrous. So we saw this society in Brave New World and ninety-leven 70's SF movies and 50's SF novels...there is still a spark of something new--albeit a small one. So IF you find yourself on an island, you COULD be stranded with worse. If you have nothing to read at present...believe me you could do worse.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: Readers who have enjoyed Robin Cook's medical thrillers will be disappointed by this book. The setting updates a tired science fiction idea -- an inhabited world miles under the surface of the Earth -- without adding much of interest. The characters are not very sympathetic, and the ending is essentially a joke. One hopes that Cook will go back to biomedical themes, and that publishers will not print everything a famous writer puts out.
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Summary: A Contrarian View -- not that bad ! Entertaining !
Review: I've read every one of Cook's books; he is after all quite prolific... But having seen the reviews on here first, maybe my expectations were low. Surprise -- I liked it a lot! OK, maybe it was pure escapism, but I found it a welcome switch from the medico-suspense genre typical of Cook (ala Sphinx, showing another side of Cook's dexterity and topical brilliance). Admittedly not a sci-fi dabbler at all, I found the adventure underwater, followed by the discovery (albeit, via abduction) of Interterra" (Utopia) quite amusing. His "explanations" of various scientific mysteries at least bordered on possibility (hey, this is fiction after all!), including the story of Atlantis and similar phenomena. I did think the ending was a bit abrupt; I might have voted 5 stars if he could have handled that a little better. In fact, I'd argue the escape element near the end was virtually the only segment of the book with little or no plausibility. Anyhow, I enjoyed. While I often criticize Cook for his unbelievable action (as opposed to premise or plot), his vivid imagination is in fine form here for an "airport" paperback.
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Summary: Trapped on a desert island with this?!
Review: At least I didn't pay anything for this insipid waste of paper. Teaching at a rural school on Zanzibar, I was happy to read any book I could get my hands on. Somehow this book made its way into the school; it was so terrible I couldn't put it down! Predictable plot, flat characters, sophomoric style; indeed, there is little to redeem it. If you want to have a good laugh over a bad book, look no further.
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Summary: Is Freedom Worth Leaving Paradise?
Review: This novel is a pleasant change from the medical psychological thrillers that we are all used to from Mr. Cook. It involves a group of people being "abducted" by a race of ancient beings that pre-date all known living creatures on Earth. As the plot unfolds we the humans are in a virtual paradise where everyone lives for pleasure and death and violence are virtually unknown. The humans must decide if living forever in Paradise is more important than their personal freedom and being with their families in a world of death and violence. This is the second science fiction type novel I have read by Mr. Cooke and I must say he does the genre well. This book does a good job of explaining many of the mysteries about our planet that have plagued scientists and historians for more that a century.
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