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Summary: Clive Cussler meets Richard Preston!
Review: My husband had me read this one. I loved it! Very well written and suspenseful. I got a little confused as to the first astronaut that leaves the ISS and why he didn't fill in the clues to the contamination. I also wanted the ending to be different - a final last paragraph as to what awaits those who next dive to the depths and bring up a sample. If you loved "The Cobra Event" you'll love this one as well.
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Summary: Gerritsen ranks with the best!
Review: I have to admit that I don't normally read female authors, being the typical male chauvinist, but I picked up "Gravity" based on a friend's recommendation and found that it to be one hell of a book. I have since read Gerritsen's "The Surgeon" (also a 5 star read) and they both rank right up there with any of my male favorites. Give Gerritsen a try, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Just cant say enough good things about this book!
Review: My fiction background is mostly science fiction, and my non fiction background is extremely technical (theoretical physics, practical physics, computer science, and engineering). I used to read a lot of Crichton, and even stooped as low as Robin Cook and Dean Koontz.I was hesitant to pick up another medical/sci-fi thriller book having been so disappointed by the genre in the past. However, somebody on this site (I can't remember who now) who had reviewed a CD I liked a lot gave a very glowing review of this book. Well, I read this book in pretty much one sitting. It was phenomenal. I read about 30-40 pages before realizing I should put it down. I knew that if I did not put it down, I would get nothing else done until I finished the book. I'm not going to give it away, because the story is so engrossing. The book was at the same time both very technical and very personal. Focusing on a sort of latent love story (which never really surfaces, but the tension is there), and an extremely intense medical drama. She also manages to be rather glib and interesting while still not being afraid to use acronyms and technical terms (dont worry you non-engineer folks, there is a glossary). The depictions of techno stuff are good. Better than average. The medical stuff is engrossing and interesting if not quite realistic. To address Stephen King's assertion she's better than Crichton... well, this book was certainly better than _The Andromeda Strain_, which I wholly enjoyed. Definitely buy this book. Send a copy to your friend. But don't start reading it if you have anything else to do that day.
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Summary: Excellent Sci Fi
Review: This is a great author! I have read most of her works and they are gripping, "can't put it down" books. Gravity is a great sci fi story about an experiment on board the space station that goes awry.
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Summary: The fusion of Mystery and Reality
Review: This captivating mystery, thriller in Gravity by Tess Gerritsen takes one from the bottom of the ocean near the Galpagos rift up into the international space station where we find our two main characters. Jack McCallum and Emma Watson together are married, but by the looks of their demeanor toward each other it wouldn't seem to be so . Jack distinguishes himself early on as being jelious of all of his wife accomplishments and his inatiquisies in not being able to pass the physical and not achieving the degree of success that his famous wife finds with ease. Amidst their common dream of space travel he has to watch from the sidelines as Emma prepares for her first mission to the into space. While up in space Emma Watson finds space not to be the glorious place she once hoped it to be, but rather a nightmare from which she is unable to escape and must use her medical training to safe the lives of her crew members and herself. We later find out that a great collection of single-celled organisms known as Archaeons, gathered from the deep sea, are to being monitored in the micro gravity of space in an effort to find out more about them, but from these fateful tests everything seems to go completely wrong. These eukarotic cells begin to multiply and spread like wildfire across the station taking no prisoner as its next victim, and as the malicious cells go from body to body they transform into the DNA of the people their enter producing lethal and torturesse results. When reinforcements from NASA try to bring relief to the ailing crew the crew and the ship on board the shuttle crashes destroying all that was on board. This unforchante series of events leaves the successful doctor and scientist as one of the only crew members that has not yet contracted the disease. In order to do her duty she must continue to perform life saving measures of the crew that still is alive on board, but at a great risk to her own life in the process. Now she also finds herself thousands of miles away from her asstranged husband, and the thriller brings on with it a romantic twist that was unexpected by the likes of me seeing the sad state of the relationship that had transpired. This novel not only kept me on the edge of my seat during this Thanksgiving holiday, but provided some inspiring reading and subjectivity that I haven't had experience in reading in the past from an author unbenounced to me. What I came away with was a concise and fun read that greatly occupied by time, and as I found myself reading the hours ticked by in record fashion. The light and fresh way the author presents the material allows sentences to flow and weave into each other as if producing a quilt. The intricate attention to detail keeps this far-fetched mystery novel still believable up to the last page, and brings real concern as to what the unexplored deep 19,000 feet under has to offer the world today. What new and ever present dangers still await us in a spot on earth so dark and unyielding. After reading the novel I have little doubt that we have yet to find some of the most compelling organisms that lay on the earth ocean floor, and through this novel I seemed to gain a greater understanding of the biological ramifications that could take place assuming that such an event would take place. This novel served as a ground to take the material learned from the book and present it in a fictional yet possibly true to live environment of death and destruction, and thought the biological lingo and terms I was able to had a greater understanding and realization as to what in the novel was going to happen to the people presented with this lethal Chimera. In the wake of the daily Anthrax scares the biological problems once thought only to be science fiction have become a reality, and each time I pick up this epic novel it becomes more and more increasingly scarey. Readers, prepare yourself for the rush of a lifetime, and make room in your list of favorite books for this won. Its a guarenteed winner!
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Summary: Definitely one for people who like science/medical thrillers
Review: Within a few chapters, I became really engrossed in this book. It has suspense, a likeable lead character, and a good plot. I'm really into thrillers that are based in science or medicine, and this combined the two brilliantly. Even if you're not into these subjects, the book is easy to read and interesting. Completely sucked me in, and I'd recommend it to anybody.
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Summary: Nice Sci-Fi Thriller
Review: Gerritsen does an excellent job of mixing sci-fi and the medical thriller. Accessable prose and likeable characters make this a fun, Crichton-like read.
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Summary: 9.8 meters/second squared
Review: I have always loved books dealing with killer viruses and I have always loved books about space disasters. This is a two for one deal. I had never read Tess Gerritsen before or ever heard of her. I bought this book on an impulse. I needed a book to read and I didn't have much time so I ran in the bookstore and grabbed this. I made a good choice. Not the best book ever but a very entertaining read, pick it up!
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Summary: Somewhat interesting, but lackluster
Review: I found this book to be OK, but not too interesting. I blame Stephen King. I grabbed this audiobook from the shelf because there was a quote from him on the cover claiming "She is better than Palmer, better than Cook...yes, even better than Crichton." I found that to be the least believable thing he has written to date. I felt the story should have gripped me more than it did. All the elements were there - the writer seemed to know her material (especially medical procedures), there was some mystery and suspense as the characters raced against the clock to understand and defeat a deadly virus, the prose is well-written, but I never really got wrapped up in the story. The last audiobook I experienced was "The Green Mile" (in my review I indicated that it was one of my favorites), so naturally any story that followed would probably seem a little bland. Still, I found myself genuinely concerned for the mouse's plight in "The Green Mile". In "Gravity" my attitude toward the main characters was 'live, die, whatever, just do it quickly'. This is one rare occasion I was glad the audio version had been abridged. The reader, Campbell Scott, was partially to blame. His flat tone does nothing to accentuate the action or suspense in the story. At first I thought he wasn't bothering to try to give the different characters unique voices. Later, I realized he was trying, only failing miserably. The most differed voices are barely distinguishable from one another. Again, listen to "The Green Mile" if you want to hear what a professional reader should sound like. Overall, the book did not provide a bad experience, but better stories are easy to find. I probably would have rated it a three if not for the poor reading. And remember, if you don't find this review helpful, it really is Stephen King's fault.
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Summary: Gravity
Review: Very good medical suspense thriller, in league of Robin Cook.
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