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Title: Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook ISBN: 0-425-16124-2 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.49 (129 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Not The Best Cookbook I've Read
Comment: Robin Cook, doctor turned writer, has produced a bundle of popular books in the "medical thriller" genre. I've read most of them, so it is fair to say that I generally enjoy Dr. Cook's work. His medical knowledge and use of topical ideas from the health care field make his tales intriguing, and they are always fast-paced. Unfortunately, character development is not a priority, and Cook's plots have tended to become increasingly predictable and far-fetched.
CHROMOSOME 6 is an improvement over some of Dr. Cook's other recent books. He divides the action between the U.S. and an African research facility, and he raises some genuine concerns with regard to cloning and bio-engineering. Also, he brings back a likeable protagonist (Dr. Laurie Montgomery) from a previous book. The action is non-stop, so boredom isn't a problem.
On the downside, though, Cook's plots have become very predictable. There is plenty of action but few surprises. Characterization also remains a problem. Besides the general lack of depth, Cook's mafiosi are so stereotypical that they're more laughable than sinister, and the behavior of the two main female characters at the African site in the face of mercenary troops and flying bullets is totally unbelievable. Finally, as several other reviewers here have mentioned, the story ends quite abruptly, as though the author suddenly ran out of space.
CHROMOSOME 6 isn't, IMO, Robin Cook's weakest book (I'll leave that honor to INVASION), but it's a long way from being one of his best. Unless you're a diehard fan, I'd advise that you skip this one. There are lots of better books out there, including several of Cook's earlier efforts.
Rating: 4
Summary: Robin Cook the master of medical thrillers
Comment: Chromosome 6 is a very good book, you never get bored.
There are a lot of action and suspense.
The story is about the clonage , and that show what the clonage can do, some human-animal, that make thinking.
The book speaks about what past now.
It's sometimes hard to understand because there are a lot of the medical terminology.
and about a medical examiner named Jack Stapleton who discovers at the morgue in New York City while working that something strange is going on. He notices during an autopsy that a man had had a liver transplant but for some reason he has trouble finding out where and when and also the man didn't need anti - immunity drugs, in other words the body did not try to reject the liver. Jack digs deep to find the answer and the two plots finally connect.
I very enjoyed it!
Rating: 1
Summary: Stunningly bad. Run, run from this book!
Comment: Robin Cook's novel of genetic manipulation which creates a race of proto-human simians is laughable. My congratulations, however, go to him for apparently creating one of these creatures himself, as Chromosome 6 appears to have been edited by one of these self-same bonobo apes!
This novel is tripe- absurd, unbelieveable characters (in particular the female characters assisting Kevin at the complex in Africa), dialogue that is beyond clumsy, the most howlingly bad, stereotypical mafiosi imaginable- I fail to see how any editor worth his salt wouldn't be forced to ask for an extensive rewrite.
That is, of course, unless he were a genetically engineered chimp editing with a sharpened flint. Yup, that would be the only possible reason for this literary train wreck.
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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: Mutation by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425119653 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Toxin by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425166619 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Fever by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425174204 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Vector by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425172996 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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