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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: The Cobra Event is another great work by Preston. Although it's fiction, I found it to be very well researched. It really makes reality sink in as to how horribly susceptable we are to a biological terrorism act.A must-read!
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Summary: A Disappointment
Review: After the advent of HIV and Ebola, stories about scary viruses seem to be everywhere. We all remember Outbreak (which was an excellent film) and then the highly acclaimed The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. I was expecting much from this one but it failed to deliver. I got the feeling that Preston was trying to impress me with all the research he has done, but who cares? Sure, there was some nice detective work and a fairly fast-paced ending, but it wasn't enough. I wouldn't be surprised if we were to see this in the movies, the character Littleberry is almost written for Danny Glover.
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Summary: The most amazingly stupid ending I have ever read
Review: I was amazed that a reviewer further down said the only good thing about this book was the action-packed ending. My reaction was just the opposite. I could have given this book 4 stars EXCEPT for the ridiculous ending. First off, the way the killer is found. What a cop-out. If Preston had allowed the killer to be found through forensics, that would have been one thing, but to have the hero and heroine just happen to take a load off right outside the killer's apartment building and just happen to look up at his third-floor window and spy his "high-tech" fan in it ... give me a break. What an incredible lack of imagination on Preston's part. Then we have this elite squad of special-op FBI SWAT types who are so incredibly dumb-ass that not a single one thinks to bring a flashlight along on a night-time operation. What next? Oh yes, the killer, who by this time should be having convulsions, throws one of his flash grenades into a chasm, separating the hero and heroine from each other, manages to work his way back around to the woman in total darkness (remember he lost his flashlight) through unfamiliar tunnels in what must have been five minutes time. He's sitting their waiting on her. But my absolute favorite part is where the hero falls 20-feet down a tunnel, head-first, and ALMOST breaks his neck. Hell, it didn't even seem to hurt him (or his suit). He then procedes to spend what must have been an incredibly long time building a "sticky-probe" to drag the bomb over and diffuse it, all one-handed and upside-down, sitting on his head with his 'almost' broken neck. Can you imagine how long it would take to rip pieces of duct tape and tape Q-tips together one-handed, standing on your head no less? And then afterwards he manages to worm his way out of the tunnel in what seemed to me less than five minutes. Although I found first 3/4 of this book to be exciting if somewhat over the top, for me the quality of the ending is everything, no matter how good the rest of the book is. And the ending of this book flat out sucked.
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Summary: Ewww!!!! Gross!!!!! My kinda book!!!!!!
Review: I haven't finished the book. Yet. The story's great and I applaud him for his great research. It must have taken a lot. Good reads.
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Summary: A Suspense Filled Book!
Review: This book kept me on the edge of my seat. It makes you really wonder if technology and biological germ warfare can take place at any moment. I found it to be educational as well as spine chilling. An excellent book!
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Summary: A book to keep you up worrying about the cold you just got.
Review: Preston's new book is a real thriller. The main character is a very believable woman. As an epidemologist, she discovers an outbreak of an engineered virus that does not respond to treatment. The victims of the disease do not simply die, they try to consume themselves first. Some of the scenes were very graphic, but not gratuitous. This is a book that I stayed up to read.
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Summary: Preston backs up his reputation with this new-age thriller.
Review: Richard Preston's novel The Cobra Event left me on the edge of my seat during my one-sitting reading of the novel. I simply could not put the book down; I had to read it cover to cover before allowing myself to stop. The plot was a bit simplistic, but its turns and surprises left me wondering until the very end. I especially liked his presentation Austen- she wasn't just another CDC doctor working only for the government. Also, his adaption of the all too real and scary truths about biotechnological weaponry, and its uses, shows us just how close we are to the apocalypse. I recommend this book for anyone who wishes to look at their life and surroundings in a whole new light.
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Summary: Don't read it while in the middle of a Hurricane
Review: Bought the paperback edition at a local drugstore while waiting for George to pass over Puerto Rico. What a mistake! This book is scarrier than the hurricane. Only one complaint: Chasing the mad guy over the subway cave's was too long. I'm looking forward to a sequel.
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Summary: A weak, badly written, and childish book. 0 stars.
Review: I was shocked at how bad this book is. Preston used a not terribly original idea, and padded it with lurid detail. Period. I am a scientist, and I read many books and like most of them, and I can't remember a book as horrendous as this. I place it in the same category as watching bodies being removed from the scene of an accident.
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Summary: Action-Packed Page Turner
Review: This Book is great. Cobra Event is loaded with action. It has a very realistic plotline and by realistic I mean that it is something that could very well take place in real life. Preston did a ton of research for the book with experts in various fields at the FBI, the CDC, and other places. This book is great and I would highly recommend it.
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