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Title: Toxin by Robin Cook ISBN: 0-425-16661-9 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.02 (235 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Thank god I'm a vegetarian!
Comment: In this, Robin Cook's scariest novel, the orderly world of egocentric surgeon Dr. Kim Regis crashes down around him when his eight-year-old daughter Becky contracts a fatal E-Coli bacterial infection from a hamburger she ate at a fast-food restaurant.
When this book came out a couple years ago, it received fiercely mixed reviews. While detractors accused Dr. Cook of using his status as a best-selling writer to distribute draconian anti-meat industry propaganda, admirers like myself praised him for being courageous enough to tell the truth.
It is the shocking nature of the truths revealed in Toxin that makes it Cook's scariest novel. After the E-Coli infection results in a slow and agonizing death for his little daughter, Dr. Regis is determined to bring to justice all the parties responsible for Becky's death.
Regis's quest leads him from shoddy, unsanitary meat processing plants (the slaughterhouse scene is something straight out of Dante - it will make you vomit) where food safety takes a back seat to profit, to the USDA - an office of the federal government that is supposed to protect consumers from tainted meat. Alas, the USDA ispectors are told by their bosses to look the other way and investigations of companies who fail to comply with safety regulations are buried in red tape.
This novel is a work of fiction, but it's based on fact. Recently, on a primetime newsmagazine - 48 Hours, I believe - there was a similar story about a 3-year-old girl who died from an E-Coli infection she caught at a Sizzler - she ate watermelon that was sliced with the same knife used to cut tainted meat - meat that infected several other customers. After a lot of finger-pointing between Sizzler and the meat processing company, an ex-USDA inspector appeared, blowing the whistle on the corrupt USDA and its collaboration with the meat industry.
Even Oprah Winfrey once did an expose on tainted meat, declaring to her viewers that she would never eat beef again, a statement that resulted in an unsuccessful lawsuit from Texas cattlemen.
Toxin is the ultimate horror novel because it's based on fact - on something that could happen (and has happened) to any man, woman, or child who eats meat. It's an exciting, heart-wrenching, gruesome thrill-ride; a truly disturbing novel that you will never ever forget.
Thank god I'm a vegetarian!
- Eric Petersen
Rating: 1
Summary: I give up!!
Comment: My first RC book was Shock and it indeed shocked me-it was so two-dimensional and flat and cliche, i couldn't believed it was published! Then i saw some reviews that mentioned it was probably the worst book by RC so i decided to give him another go. Unfortunately i'm once again disappointed. Totally. I mean i didn't even managed to get past the first 100pages!! It makes me wonder how did his novels become best-sellers. The characters are totally 2-D and almost stereotypical. Dialogue and writing style just seems really flat to me and it just feels unreal. The characters were unlikeable and it just felt like a re-run of an overused theme, overplayed B-grade movie. Don't think i'll waste any more time on his novels again. Lesson learned.
Rating: 3
Summary: Sick But Fun
Comment: After reading this you won't eat hamburger for a long time.
When a doctor's daughter gets sick from eating hamburger that was undercooked, he goes nuts. On a rampage, he fights with the medical association as well as the meat industry that poisons his little girl. As he goes undercover in the warehouse, what he sees, the handling of the food and what actually goes into your Big Macs, my gosh I'm getting sick thinking about it.
My only gripes - it dragged a little in some parts (I do admit to a short attention span though), and I wanted more out of the ending. I was kinda like "okay...and?"
Overall I recommend this book. It's very interesting, as some of it is supposidly based on various facts about how meat is handled.
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Title: Contagion by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425155943 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Vector by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425172996 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Chromosome 6 by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425161242 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 12 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Mutation by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425119653 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Fever by Robin Cook ISBN: 0425174204 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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