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Summary: pretty good book
Review: It is very good the only downside is the ending, i thought it would come out better. For kids it is a lot easier to understand than some of his other books.
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Summary: Are they SURE that Robin Cook wrote this?
Review: Ok...I'm still shocked that Robin Cook wrote this. Are they SURE that this wasn't written by some wannabe Micheal Crichton? The only elements of a traditional Robin Cook novel (Sphinx and The Year of the Intern nonwithstanding) are the brief references to microbes (although I think that Robin Cook made the mistaken assumption that decontaminating someone externally decontaminates them completely). The rest of the book reads like a poorly written Micheal Crichton novel(including an ending almost identical to Timeline), and nothing like I expected. So why did I give it 2 stars instead of 1? If nothing else, its a good read if you have nothing else handy. As far as Robin Cook novels go, this one goes squarely at the bottom (w/Vector at the top) and I do not recommend it, but you could do worse.
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Summary: What a waste of time.
Review: I have read many of Robin Cook's medical thrillers, and find most to be interesting, though a bit formulatic. I find it hard to believe this book is by the same author. I had to keep pushing myself to keep reading in the hope that the book had to get better. No luck, it just kept spiraling downward. The ending was enough to cause me to literally doze off. The characters were not developed, the writing style was elementary school level, and the plot did nothing to draw me in. It's as if Mr. Cook had a contract to fulfill, waited untill there were 18 hours left, and gave birth to this weak effort. Laid an egg is more like it.
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Summary: Robin Cook Really Missed on This One!
Review: Having read almost all of Robin Cook's books to date, I sat down Saturday afternoon ready to be involved in a medical thriller. What I found instead was a novel with poorly developed characters and a totally predictable story line. I even went back and checked the title page to be sure this wasn't a reprint of a very early book by this author. Unfortunately that is not the case. The main actors in the story are superficial and one dimensional. Unlike older Robin Cook novels, none of these characters seems to have existed before the story began and the reader is really not sorry to see them go. The premise of a civilization existing under the earth could surely be presented in a more believeable way given today's technology. This book is a disappointment from start to finish.
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Summary: Pass this one up!
Review: Well, I really wish I could say something pleasant about this novel but I'm as lost for words as Cook apparently was when he wrote the book. I can't recall the last time I've read an entire novel where I did not encounter a single new word -- new to my vocabulary, that is. Not that I buy novels to increase my vocabulary, but as I read this novel, that "peculiarity" stuck in my mind. The character development was atrocious, and the plot was so old and tired that even Cook seemed to give up toward the end and just shut his effort down with one of the most truncated endings I recall ever reading. I read the whole thing but would encourage other readers to avoid my mistake. Ouch!
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Summary: B movie quality
Review: Reading this book was like reading a script for a B movie written in the early 1960's. Even the main characters were unbelievable. It is hard to think that Cook actually wrote this book because his other books have been very good. If you want to read a good thrilling book about under the earth read 'The Descent' by Jeff Long.
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: The only abduction here is that of the reader's time and money. The idea of a secret city under the sea (in the earth's crust) seemed a little out there, but then do so the stories of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and M. Crichton, so I kept reading hoping something interesting would turn up. Alas, it just got more boring and trite as it went on. I skipped a big chunk and went towards the end, again hoping for some twist or something to justify my having bought it. No such luck. I can only believe that this book was published because of the author's very well-known name. Please, Dr.C., stick to medical thrillers or you'll lose a ton of readers.
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Summary: Incredibly Awful
Review: I believe that this is the worst book I've ever read; I'm ashamed to say I actually looked at every page. The plotting, characterization, and style is at the fifth grade level. Everything is astonishingly shallow, trite, and predictable, and the writer (I can't believe it was Cook) even screwed up the ending twist. For heaven's sake, don't encourage them and pay money for this trash. Read Verne. Zero stars.
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Summary: Good beginning, boring middle and interesting ending
Review: I was really into the story when the Americans landed into this secret city under the sea. After awhile the story about life on Interterra became boring, the two divers very boorish and I couldn't wait to finish the book so that I could move on to another book. I did like the ending however; I thought it was a good conclusion to the story. Not your typical Robin Cook novel which are far more preferable
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Summary: Bad writing
Review: I cannot remember reading a book as bad as this in a long, long time. I have read all of Robin Cook's books and this one does not fit the typical novel of his. As the "master of the medical thriller" I would have expected more from him. This book was an attempt at branching off into science fiction. He should stay with science fact. Every page was loaded with "he said", "she said" and it quickly became redundant. I hope in the future Robin Cook sticks with the medical thrillers and leaves the science fiction to the real science fiction writers.
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