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Title: Seizure by Robin Cook ISBN: 0-399-14876-0 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 14 July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.04 (45 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Too Far Fetched
Comment: Robin Cook had me hooked when I first read Coma. I read all of his books with a vicious furor. Then as I read more of them, I noticed that they started to take on a sci-fi type story. That's when, in my opinion, Cook started to go downhill and hasn't stopped since.
Like Coma and Cook's other books, this book revolves around controversial medical issues. Two scientists involved in stem cell research and therapeutic cloning are forced by a conservative Southern senator to use their untested gene therapy to cure his Parkinson's disease. Since the procedure requires DNA, the senator asks them to use blood from the Shroud of Turin. The scientists must travel from Boston to Italy to the Bahamas, constantly avoiding scrutiny by people trying either tostop them or to discover their plans. The procedure finally takes place within the last 70 pages, making for an anticlimactic ending, especially given the possibilities established by the overall premise. With a number of loose ends not tied up in a completely satisfactory way, the book almost begs for a sequel but I don't think I'd even bother reading it. This book was way too far fetched.
Rating: 2
Summary: An anticlimax
Comment: The pen of Robin Cook has always kept me riveted until the very end of each and every novel except this one. The expectation of the medical action beginning from the start of the novel was sadly lacking in this one. There was too much preamble and emotional jargon that took away from the essence. Also the title does accurately describe what the story was reaaly about which was HTSR. The ending was an extreme disappointment. A true end was not clearly stated and I felt as though there wasn't completion. I love the artistry of Robin Cook and I hope that his future novels will not go down this same road.
Rating: 2
Summary: Frankenstein Meets Da Vinci Meets the Sopranos! Too much!
Comment: "It's the story of two titans, in their own separate arenas, yet strangely similar in their hubris, who had achieved greatness but suffered tragic faults. Senator Butler's was a love of power, which had evolved from a means to an end and of itself. Dr. Lowell's, I'd guess, was a desire for financial recognition and celebrity status appropriate in his mind to his intellect and contribution. When these two men collided by conspiring to use each other for their own purposes, their tragic fault literally brought them down." (Epilogue, 382)
Carol Manning's final character assessment of protagonists Dr. Daniel Lowell and Senator Butler basically says it all. I guess the central idea here is, as Robin Cook says, "the regrettable collision of politics and rapidly advancing bioscience" (Author's Note, 386). ...And honestly, if the plot focused more around the Frankenstein-like theme of the irresponsibility of scientific research and innapropriate political influence in this arena, the story would have been much more effective. Dr. Cook, however, also felt the need to not only include a sub plot about a mafia-connected investor but also to capitalize on the success of Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" by including controversial information about the authenticity of the Shroud of Tourin. He even mentions Leonardo Da Vinci at one point!
Unethical biotechnology, religious relics, organized crime - there were just too many different things crammed into one story! It got so ridiculous that, after establishing the plot in the first few chapters, I skimmed through most of the book. Ironically, the last chapter and the epilogue really gave me all I needed to understand Butler's and Lowell's fate. The best part of the book was Dr. Cook's "Author's Note", which provided some very interesting commentary about the unethical relationship between medical reserach and politics. Other than that, this was book was extremely disappointing.
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Title: The Sinner by TESS GERRITSEN ISBN: 0345458915 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sphinx by Robin Cook ISBN: 0451159497 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Big Bad Wolf: A Novel by James Patterson ISBN: 0316602906 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 17 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Blow Fly: A Scarpetta Novel by Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0399150897 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Shock by Robin Cook ISBN: 042518286X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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