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Title: A Case of Need by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0-451-21063-8 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (73 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Chrichton's first novel.
Comment: This book won the 1968 Edgar Award for best mystery novel of the year. An obstetrician has been accused of performing an illegal abortion in Boston in the late 1960's. A pathologist discovers that the girl, who died in the emergency room of a hospital, wasn't even pregnant. He sets out to clear his friend of the charges. Although some of the discussions on abortion may seem dated, this is still a good mystery. Michael Crichton originally published this book under the pseudonym Jeffrey Hudson. Some earlier reviewers have suggested that he did this because of the controversy generated by the topic of abortion. While this undoubtedly was a factor, we also have to recall that this was his first book and Crichton was a medical student in Massachusetts at the time he wrote much of this book. I'm not sure if his faculty would have been too keen on having a student devote a significant fraction of his time to writing a novel instead of to his studies, had they known. But, I may be wrong. Some other reviewers gave it a low rating because it contained too much jargon. Of course, that is a trademark of this category of books; however, I seem to miss the jargon in this novel. Perhaps I missed it but "A Case of Need" seems to be the least technical of Crichton's books.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good ? but not Crichton-nesque
Comment: There is always a tough mental block when reading a book that is really outdated. This book deals with a doctor connected to a death through an illegal abortion. A small portion of this book deals with why abortions should be legal, and why there should be pity towards the doctors that perform illegal abortions. Of course, in today?s time, abortions are legal and the point becomes deadened quite a bit.
In this book a doctor is accused of killing a woman through an abortion. Another doctor tries to clear his friend by investigating the case thoroughly. Without giving too much away, this book details how the doctor investigates the woman and her well connected family through interviews, spying, medical records, and autopsies.
While it is a good mystery novel, Crichton doesn?t deliver his normal brilliance. Unlike the Great Train Robbery, the reader is not totally immersed in the setting. Unlike Sphere, the reader doesn?t get trapped in the suspense and mystery of the situation.
A good, quick, and mildly exciting read, it?s out of date and not up to the extremely high standards that I expect from Michael Crichton.
Rating: 4
Summary: This must be the first book to read...
Comment: I like all kind of medical thrillers, I like Palmer, Cook, Sheldon (Nothing Last Forever) and of course Crichton, when I started to read these kind of novels, many times I had to go to the dictionary to understand many medical descriptions, or ask some friends what does it mean this or that in the hospital, this book explain all that and after you read it you will understand many things about hospitals and doctors, this book doesn't say anything against any doctor as other medical thrillers, in this book you see how the doctors try to help themselves and their medical friends.
The case of the abortion is good, nevertheless you will not know exactly how John knew who was the bad guy, he just found it, so, at the end you will be a little disappointed but you will learn many things about doctors, for example: do you really know why the clothes of the M.D. are white?
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Title: Rising Sun by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345380371 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0060092572 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Travels by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0060509058 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Airframe by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345402871 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Prey by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0061015725 Publisher: Avon Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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