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Summary: One Great Adventure
Review: Terrific concept! This is a must read! The ideas are not only possible but the effects of such a boon to and on medicine and society distinctly likely. Besides all that, a rockin' good-time!
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Summary: Interesting characters, well paced, great plot line
Review: This book contains the two major elements that make a story memorable: a good, original plot line and characters that you actually care about. The book starts with an interesting premise and pulls you in very quickly. The plot becomes more convoluted as the story progresses and is nicely revealed/resolved by the story's end.The characters are original,believable, and come to life vividly with Burns' writing. This was a page-turner that pulled me in enough to really care how the characters fared and how the story ended. This is a great first novel, well worth the read, and I look forward to his next effort.
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Summary: Need six stars
Review: Where can I start in describing this book? Good characters? Check. Good concept? Check. Good ending? Check. The author resists the impulse to make the story too heavy-handed, and the characters are idealists that don't always suceed just because the plot demands that the good guys win. Although the good guys win, and man and woman are together, and the plot of the bad guys is foiled. But along the way, we see that the characters are fallable. Not in that annoying anti-hero sort of way - that manages to triumph against all odds. In the way that you and I are fallable. In a way that sometimes, we overcome our failures and rise above them. To look at the review, it would seem to be another story about another set of people that has a happy ending. While this is certainly true, I find that I lack the words to explain why I read this story as quickly as I could. Perhaps because it is balanced. Trying to put it into words makes the story seem weaker than it is. Perhaps it is the simplicity that is appealing. A simple story about a man that overcomes his weakness. A man that crawls out of a bottle and makes something of his life. Perhaps not too plausible, perhaps a bit to neat and happy an ending, but certainly one that I read toward, and enjoyed. And that's all one really needs to say about a book. Buy it!
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