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Title: Critical Care : A Novel by Richard Dooling ISBN: 0-312-14304-4 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 15 June, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Laugh, Whoop, Be Enlightened
Comment: I plucked this book off a library shelf in 1996 only because the author's last name caught my attention as being similar to my own. I took it and 6 other novels home and sat down to take a quick preliminary glance at all of them, happening to start with CC. Three hours later, I was still in the same place, alternately howling with laughter and shouting out "Richard Dooling is a GENIUS!" This novel has everything--everything I like, at least: black humor, mordant sociology, unusual but believable and mostly even likeable characters, a plot that keeps you turning pages as fast as you can while at the same time wishing the book would not end, mystery, surprises, an inside look at an arcane profession, and finally, wisdom that doesn't seem hokey. I went back to the library in search of information about the author and--this was 1996, remember--found only a couple of reviews, in library journals, and the reviewers had not understood the book AT ALL. Its fortunes improved somewhat after his second novel was published. The movie was also superlative but went largely unnoticed. I recommended both novel and movie to many friends, and several told me one or the other was just too "strong" for their taste. Maybe it just hits too close to home. I have found most of the same qualities in Dooling's subsequent novels, which because of their subjects--Africa, cyberspace--may be far enough removed from what really hurts us here in the U.S. to be more popular.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely hilarious if u r in the medical field!
Comment: R.D must have been a doctor in a former life because his eye for medical detail is astonishing(second only to his scathing wit).READ IT!
Rating: 5
Summary: Serious Satire
Comment: I read Critical Care as soon as I finished Dooling's latest novel, Brain Storm. I was impressed that Dooling possessed such a huge mastery of the world inside the Intensive Care Unit AND of the law. This book presents similar types of ethical questions that Brain Storm does, but all of it is couched in hilarious dialogue and personal character reflections. Make sure to read this book in a place where laughing outloud won't get you thrown out. Great Book (I just started his other novel, White Man's Grave).
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Title: White Man's Grave : A Novel by Richard Dooling ISBN: 031213214X Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 15 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Brain Storm : A Novel by Richard Dooling ISBN: 0312203993 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Bet Your Life by Richard Dooling ISBN: 0060505400 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Great Fire: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard ISBN: 0374166447 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Mystic River by Dennis Lehane ISBN: 0380731851 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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