Books by Robin Cook
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review 1: The story has a promising beginning with a stem-cell research. Then there is a tedious body part with the detailed account of the "war" of Long Island Mafia and the Japanese Yakuza, and the rivalry between the two Japanese organised crime leaders, all interlaced with the minutely...
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review 1: A new app for iphones is being used by people who are ill. They are part of a 20,000 person study to see if 'idoc' will work and be successful. George Wilson, a radiology resident, fiancée Kasey is one of the people in the study. She unexpectedly dies and George is devastated a...
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review 1: Hats off to Robin Cook for creating one of the most unlikeable protagonists in the history of fiction. Pia is a downright intolerable character. She has some sort of disorder that makes her socially awkward and unable to look people in the eye; it also makes her rude, overly nose...
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review 1: Although Robin Cook is one of the authors who never disappoints, this particular book says the contrary. The build up to the story was quite remarkable, but the story didn't hold 'til the climax. The sudden introduction of characters who felt, as if they were from a bad espionage...
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review 1: Re-reading this today, it's hard to imagine this book could have caused such a stir when it was first published in the 70s and that it could have generated an entire sub genre--the Medical Thriller. I bet it wouldn't even be published today: cardboard characters, a plot almost an...
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review 1: I admit, with the exception of Cell, it's been a while since I had read a Robin Cook book. I finished Cell right before I started this. It actually would have been better to read them in the other order. The main character in this book is Pia Grazdani, who is alluded to by Geo...