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Title: Outbreak by Robin Cook ISBN: 0-425-10687-X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 01 July, 1991 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 (41 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Whew! Look out Grisham! You have a medical competitor!
Comment: If you've ever read a Grisham novel, especially The Firm, then you know what you're in for with this Cook thrillride! Lone physician, investigates with a combination of skill, streetsmarts, and luck the deadly series of Ebola outbreaks that "plague" (Read Contagion for more plague stuff) seemingly random Prepaid clinics around the country, zeroes in on what she believes to be the truth. She's right, and ofcourse now everyone is after poor, lonesome, weary, can't-trust-anyone-anymore, misses-her-life-and-her-dog Melissa Blumenthal (Melissa also appears in some other Cook stories, and she's quite a likeable eye-catcher!). Desperate and fearful right there along with her, I fell off the edge of my seat countless times with my fingers crossed and my wits alert on this excellent protagonist's behalf! The book is a joyride through the fast-paced and adrenaline-pumping depths of your deepest paranoia, and it just goes to show, that it's the little things, the really really little things (like viruses) that are truly worth this kind of unprecedented and bone-chilling fear! Great read! Watch out, Grisham!
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining, but predictable
Comment: Robin Cook does it again. This was actually the first of his books I had read, but I am free to say that as I am now familiar with more of his work. Does anyone else think that his stories are somewhat predictable?
Outbreak is an entertaining read, but it is so predictable. I knew who the informant of Marissa's activities was by the first quarter of the novel. The fact that Marissa didn't was a source of infinate agitation for me during this read. This woman is supposed to be intelligent, but she doesn't have a whit of common sense. Also, the bad guys are...dumb. No other description suits them except that they are incredibly stupid.
Another pet peeve of mine is Cook's prose...not exactly Shakespeare is it? Cook is a mediocre writer at BEST, and this is one of his better novels.
If you want a medical thriller that is a quick, easy read and is completely average, then Outbreak is for you.
Rating: 3
Summary: At least the medical details seemed to be consistent...
Comment: The book itself was a pretty standard thriller - and predictable.I guess people who enjoy this genre usually like reading it for the "process of discovery" rather than for an unexpected ending.
But the "process" wasn't that satisfying. Even though the Medical details were consistent and thorogh, the plot wasn't. I ekpt losing track of which city Marissa was in and why she was there (and later - what happened in it) because the changes (and number) of cities just happenedso fast... Also, quite a lot of loose story threads were left - suchaswhat happens to Tad, or how the 'mass infection' in Pheonixoccured, since the cafeteria theory was explainedto beavery weak one...
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Title: Mutation by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425119653 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Contagion by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425155943 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Mortal Fear by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425113884 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: February, 1989 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Invasion by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425155404 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Mindbend by Robin Cook ISBN: 0451141083 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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