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Title: Brain
ISBN: 0451157974
Author:
Robin Cook
Publicate Date: 1982-01-04
Publish: 1982-01-04
List Price: $7.99
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Not Bad
Brain by Robin Cook is a nice little book that is easy to read and quite interesting for most of the book. If you're looking to be blown away, this is not the book for you, but nonetheless, I did enjoy reading it. As with Coma, the story is really engaging, but it seems to take a familiar course toward the end.
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2: Whoa, this one will really freak you out!
The story may be fiction, but the premise is factual and what Dr. Cook tells at the end of the book is enough to raise the hair on the back of your neck. In the 30s and continuing into the 70s the government experimented on a group of black men with the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments via the U.S. Health Dept., which is now the CDC. See BAD BLOOD by James Jones and THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY: THE REAL STORY AND BEYOND by Fred D. Gray who as a lawyer representing the Tuskegee Syphilis survivors sued the federal government. As well, see Eileen Welsome's THE PLUTONIUM FILES: AMERICA'S SECRET MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS DURING THE COLD WAR. If you believe Robin Cook's comments at the end of this book are fictional, think again! It took Eileen Welsome 10 years to research and write her book and she received the Pulitzer for her work. Robin Cook's information in this book should make you ponder what you sign when you visit a doctor's office...read it carefully and make sure you aren't another government experiment as there have been countless experiments besides the ones I've mentioned here.
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3: from a high school standpoint.
Recommended by a teacher, Robin Cook, the first novel that caught my attention was Brain, my first Cook book too. this book had it all. I'm not a reader at all, and I dont usual enjoy it, but this book kept my interest and I couldn't put it down! Brain gives an amazing sense of imagery. Confusing, but you get the hang of it. I would DEFINITELY recommend it to anyone who wants a quick intense read!
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4: Brain-a real experience for your brain.
This book is about a medical center that goes from saving lives to taking lives, like one of Cook's other books, Godplayer, only this one is about brain surgery. It may have been done before, but this book makes the plot of removing unsuspecting surgical patient's brains to make a supercomputer and is very disturbing. If you don't like to read descriptions of people's brains being disposed of and removed in the most gut-wrenching ways or if you can't understand complicated scientific jargon about how the brain interacts with computers, don't read this. If you do, read IT!!!!!!!
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5: Worth Reading
Although this novel is over 20 years old, I found it interesting, intriguing, and shocking.
Dr. Martin Philips,Assistant Chief of Neuroradiology at Hobson University Medical Center is thrilled and intrigued with the new computer program that his colleague Michaels, a genius working in the Department of Artificial Intelligence presents to him. Eager to test his new program, Philips begins to try it out on a series of x-rays, and soon discovers some strange abnormalities in several patients, some whom have recently expired, and one who went missing. Soon, Dr. Philips begins to suspect that something very strange and unethical is taking place at Hobson Medical Center. As he pursues his investigation, he faces threats of losing his position, and inadvertantly discovers that the FBI may likely be involved in the illegal activities that are taking place at the Medical Center.
Although parts of this story dragged a little at times, I never lost interest, and found it to be a good read.
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