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Summary: Not so Robin Cook
Review: I've read nearly everything Robin Cook has written, and I've got very used to hospital based thrillers. How different this book is! So plausible!,he manages to relate histoical fact to this work of fiction in such a way that you can almost believe it could be true. And what a great and unexpected ending. If you're wanting Doctors, forget this book, if you want a really great story, then this is the book for you. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Definitely not Robin Cook's best
Review: This book was a disappointment. It's great that Robin Cook is trying out a new genre, but the book reads like a corny old Star Trek episode or a bad made-for-tv movie. Please, Dr. Cook, go back to your medical thrillers!!!
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Summary: Terrible Reading
Review: While most of the negative reviews of this book focus on the fact that it is not the "normal" Robin Cook, I think it was great to see a change in focus from the medical thriller to sci-fi. I agree with the review that stated Robin Cook's novels were starting to all sound alike. The problem I had with Abduction was with the overall writing and character development, or should I say lack thereof. If the Interrans were so "advanced" why did they giggle so much? Why were Richard and Michael so immature? Why was it so easy for the Americans to escape? For those that are looking to find the typical Robin Cook novel, don't buy this one. For those that are looking for a well developed sci-fi novel, don't buy this one.
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Summary: Pretty cool...
Review: This was a fairly exciting book, although I'm sure many of the plot elements have been used a bunch already in sci-fi books from the past. I couldn't stand the two diver characters; I wish they would have been left out. Cook clearly uses this book to bash modern society, which is OK to some degree, but it seems the lead female character starts to sympathize with some of the nightmarish ideals the Interterrans hold. I didn't buy the evolution garbage, either. It's funny how most authors today assume that everybody accepts evolution without question, as if it were composed of established facts, like a historical account. In truth it's incredibly filled with holes and absurd on it's face. The odds of an automobile spontaneously evolving are greater than those of a human being, due to the incredible complexity of humans.
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Summary: Good book, but NOT typical Robin Cook
Review: The most important thing to realize about this book is it is NOT Robin Cook's typical book. There are no doctors, no hospital, no cutting edge medical technology.It is, however, a very good book in it's genre. This book really belongs in Science Fiction rather than mystery. The story is set in the ocean rather than in space, but many of the elements are the same as first encounter stories. It's a familiar story of the clash of cultures and the resulting problems. I found it very refreshing to read this type of story from Robin Cook. Hopefully this is the first of more stories away from the typical medical setting.
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Summary: Abduction combines human drama with high-tech thrills
Review: Robin Cook is an acclaimed author whose mysteries and thrillers have attracted legions of fans. Abduction combines human drama with high-tech thrills as a mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding, one that will alter everything we think we know about life on earth! This unabridged, 7 cassette, 10 hour, superbly produced, library edition audiobook is marvelously narrated by Dick Hill. Abduction is also available in an unabridged CD format (209-4...); as well as an abridged trade edition (6 hours, 4 cassettes, 053-9...).
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Summary: my review
Review: This book is a work of science fiction, about people who find a world under the sea inhabited by an advanced species of humans. This is certainly not the best work by this author. I have read many of his works and they are mostly related to the medical-investigative field and much more realistic. This book deals too much in the fiction world and it is hard to accept the story. However, I did find the ending to be orginal and totally unprepared!
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Summary: A real time waster
Review: I find it really hard to believe that this book was even considered for printing. The premise is amateurish and the story so under developed that is borders on inept. The characters spend so much time being told by the Interterrans "to be patient" that I soon realize it is the author telling me "to be patient...please do not put down my book, I have a point". And yet, Cook doesn't. He creates a Utopian world that we are supposed to embrace while despising our own...but in the end, I only despise myself for wasting several hours that I will never get back. He leaves so much unexplored that it is maddening...his heroes never ask the question that a sane person would ask nor do they do what a normal person would do given the same circumstances. Moreover, how is it possible that these Interterrans are so advanced and yet know so little about surface humans...I mean these beautiful Morlocks live forever and yet all they can do is giggle like coy school girls at our "primative behaviour". He then rushes through the climax to a totally unsatisfying conclusion as if he too, realizes his story is going no where so might as well but us out of our misery. Oh, and tell me how likely it is that the human species would evolve TWICE to be the same, let alone live in the Moho Discontinuity. Cook is a doctor for Pete's sake, he should at least be fundamentally aware of the processes of natural selection. I tell you if this is what is to be considered publishable scifi...I am giving up my day job and going back through all the stories I wrote as a kid...I have one I would like to submit to Cook's publishers on these monsters which have six heads and seven arms and live under my bed and...well, you get the picture? Is that a scathing enough review? Save your money and sanity, read a better story called "the Time Machine" *grins*
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Summary: Very fast read
Review: I thought the book was written well. Robin Cook bridges some of our history with this undersea world. He incorporated some mysteries of science in this book as it relates to the undersea world that I found interesting. He also deals with some human characteristics that show some insight to the way a human may react to be found on so-called paradise. The ending was a bit of a shocker. I enjoyed it and I hope you will too.
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Summary: It was horrible
Review: Like all of the other reviews I had a hard time beliving it was Robin Cook. I have read all of his and I kept waiting for something Cook-ish to come. It never came. Not one doctor (at least not any medical doctors) not one nurse not one hospital. It was his worst yet.
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