Seizure by Robin Cook (Epub)

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Long recognized as the master of medical thrillers, in Seizure Robin Cook once again combines a fascinating scenario with cutting-edge suspense and the bold strokes of everyday reality.

A seizure has to be one of the most frightening conditions known to the medical profession, and ever since publication of Coma, Dr Cook has been scaring us with his visionary insight into the most alarming possibilities of his own profession.

User’s Reviews

From Publishers Weekly Cook constructs a promising yet ultimately wearying plot around the issue of therapeutic cloning, picking up where his last novel, Shock, left off. Readers are once again privy to the morally questionable goings on at the Wingate Infertility Clinic in the Bahamas, but its doctors are side players here. Leading the action is former Harvard biotech ace Daniel Lowell, who has formed his own company to investigate a cloning technique in which a patient with an incurable disease is returned to health through the injection of stem cells. In this case the disease is Parkinson’s, and the patient is Ashley Butler, a conservative U.S. senator from the South. For political reasons, Butler opposes the legalization of Lowell’s technique. Yet Butler-given about a year to live-is willing to switch sides if Lowell agrees to try out the treatment on him first. The kicker is that the fundamentalist Butler wants the stem cells injected into his brain to come from a very specific source: the Shroud of Turin, the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. Cook provides plenty of action as well as polemical asides about the ethics of cloning (he believes politics intrudes far too often into medical and biotech issues), yet readers waiting for a jolt or a revelation will be disappointed. Cook occasionally lets loose the propulsive narrative force that characterizes his best work, but much of the plot is stale and contrived. Readers will have to endure characters who fail to stir emotions (such as a band of corny mobsters), as well as descriptions of Bahamanian resorts that read like paid promotional material.Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Review ‘Like John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell, the author, a practising doctor from Florida, mines his professional life for clever plots and gruesomely convincing details’ (DAILY MAIL). –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ At the outset I thought this book was going to be very good. A senator looking to keep a promising medical prodecure from the public for purely political gain becomes ill and has to go to the very people who came up with said procedure for help, the very definition of irony.But after that, the book starts to languish. I don’t mind a good long book, but I think this one was perhaps TOO long. In addition to the medical procedure and the senator’s plight to use it despite his political ‘views’ on it, there’s a whole subplot involving one of the protagonist’s relatives and the mafia. This is something that really didn’t help in the book’s main development. It was almost shoved right into the middle of everything. I do think that the subplot is going to be in a book later on down the line (if it hasn’t been already, I haven’t read cook’s latest).In any event, the book kind of drags for the most part. One of the good things is that it once again pulls in characters from previous books in the Cook ‘universe’ if you will: Wingate and Saunders and they’re crazy security cheif, of the Wingate Clinic. I always enjoy seeing guest appearances from characters, both good and bad, in later works by any author.I wouldn’t say it’s the worst book I’ve read or a complete waste of time. There were some enjoyable parts but I just found them to be interspersed with alot of dragging chapters.

⭐ Very compelling story but became a little unbelievable in the end.

⭐ “Seizure” was so annoying and disappointing that I kept putting it down in disgust, then picking it up again, hoping it would somehow rise to the status of some of his former writing, like “Coma,” which I had enjoyed.What was wrong? To catalogue only a few things, the characters were shallow, one-dimensional, stereotypical, socially reprehensible, and didn’t grow over time to become even remotely likable.The science was strange. DNA from the Shroud of Turin? Even if the Shroud were proven to be authentic, the likelihood of getting uncontaminated, viable DNA would seem to be next to non-existent. But, even if the Shroud were authentic and you could retrieve uncontaminated, usable DNA, so what? Why does Butler want it? To be become, in his megalomania, Christ-like? It surely was not to “cure” his Parkinsonism. If this makes little sense to the reader, what kind of sense is it supposed to make to the characters who are supposed to be professionals in the scientific areas?The business with the banging and misaligning of the stereotactic apparatus, with no one saying or doing anything about it and allowing gross malpractice to occur as a result, felt like a cop-out. The author needed a quick-and-dirty way to resolve the dilemma of what would happen if the so-called viable Shroud of Turin DNA were properly introduced into Butler’s substantia nigra to test its effect on Parkinsonism.Then to top it all off, Cook presents the misalignment-produced temporal lobe epilepsy as an inescapable and uncontrollable aggression. This was not only another cop-out but also an insulting and inaccurate representation of the disorder.Nothing in this book worked for me … and me, a formerly rabid fan and collector. The psychology didn’t work. The science didn’t work. The characters didn’t work. The story line definitely didn’t work.Yes, I finally finished the book … because I wanted to see, from a technical and artistic point of view, if the author could manage to weave together all the disperate threads. What a waste of time and effort for both me, the reader, and the author. Sorry, Robin, either shape up or give it up.

⭐ I love Robin Cook’s writing and how he can incorporate medical issues and ethics into mainstream social topics. This one incorporated the Shroud of Turin with a controversial treatment using DNA which I thought was really well done. I also like how he includes characters from other novels of his. It gives a feeling of continuity and that the stories and people could be real. I’ve read the book and the only bad thing about the audio book is it is abridged so you don’t get all the details of the full story.

⭐ A little slow in the beginning but got much better. There is some talk of stem cell now, so who knows?

⭐ This was a fun and engaging book with a shocker of an ending. If you like Robin Cook, you’ll love this book!

⭐ Unlike other Robin Cook books, there is less of the action and more of the technical hooplah. the book has all type of characters: politicians, Italian mob, quack doctors, clerics, etc. Therapeutic cloning is explained in layman’s term that is not hard to understand.

⭐ Good read

⭐ It was very repetitive. A lot of unnecessary characters. Not up to his other books.

⭐ Excellent as all his books!

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