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Summary: Scary
Review: A great book that I couldn't put down. It makes you feel if you were there watching all those people with the virus die. It is a page turner, making you want more, but at the same time, it is terrifying.
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Summary: Probably the best bug book
Review: A nasty plot twist (the virus, Plainville, possesses a human host, resulting in a virus with intelligence). It is the ultimate expression of what viruses "set out" to do--turn hosts into virus. Who cares whether it's even remotely probable? (Retroviruses usually cause chronic diseases like AIDS and lymphoma, not acute, annihilating plagues as in this book.) The characters aren't the most profound, but who's looking for Shakespeare here? I certainly wasn't, and the book gave me several sleepless nights. If you want a technically competent book, read the Coming Plague. The Blood Artists is strictly for fun.
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Summary: Probably the best bug book
Review: A nasty plot twist (the virus, Plainville, possesses a human host, resulting in a virus with intelligence). It is the ultimate expression of what viruses "set out" to do--turn hosts into virus. Who cares whether it's even remotely probable? (Retroviruses usually cause chronic diseases like AIDS and lymphoma, not acute, annihilating plagues as in this book.) The characters aren't the most profound, but who's looking for Shakespeare here? I certainly wasn't, and the book gave me several sleepless nights. If you want a technically competent book, read the Coming Plague. The Blood Artists is strictly for fun.
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Summary: Gripping and eye-opening! I loved it!
Review: As a medical technologist, this book had special meaning to me. Hogan does a great job of exploring both major personalities in the novel, while at the same time showing a decent understanding of the viral world and medical technology. It catches you up in the evolution of this killer virus which displays its own personality throughout the novel and really becomes a character in and of itself. It is interesting to imagine when those of us in medicine/science will have to leave our labs and take more militant action in defending the human race. Hogan does a great job of portraying that...it kept me up many a night!
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Summary: A Breathtaking Thriller
Review: Blood Artists isn't the most realistic story ever written and the author tends to over describe at times but all that aside, it is one of the most engaging books that I have ever read. Peter Mayrk is what makes this novel a great success. His physicality and personality make you love him and sometimes despise him at the same time. If you enjoy a good medical sci-fi thriller then you will love Blood Artists. By all means pick up a copy and read it today.
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Summary: A Breathtaking Thriller
Review: Blood Artists isn't the most realistic story ever written and the author tends to over describe at times but all that aside, it is one of the most engaging books that I have ever read. Peter Mayrk is what makes this novel a great success. His physicality and personality make you love him and sometimes despise him at the same time. If you enjoy a good medical sci-fi thriller then you will love Blood Artists. By all means pick up a copy and read it today.
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Summary: Implausible, logistically flawed, but worth finishing
Review: Curiously, I work at the CDC in Building 6, room 156, which would put me directly across from the room the two good (?) doctors from this tome inhabit. Not surprisingly, the resemblance between the two buildings is marginal.Although there are plot twists aplenty, and even given likely technological advances between now and the future setting for this novel, most of the scientific underpinnings for this book are implausible. Viewed in the context of science (or speculative) fiction, the book semi-succeeds. As a heads-up for future dire bioterroristic possibilities, it fails. Miserably. The characters are poorly developed, there are plot disconnects everywhere (e.g., even on-command military transport could not get these people where they were supposed to go in the timeframes noted). I really hoped for a lot more from this book. For a much more persuasive read, try The Eleventh Plague, by John S. Marr.
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Summary: This book delivers the goods!
Review: I cannot say enough (good) about this book! Not only does it "deliver the goods" in terms of adrenaline and suspense, but it has poetic language and uncommonly lovable characters. There's plenty of scientific, thought-provoking discussion, too. The book makes no bones about the fact that humanity is really straining its leash in terms of invading the environment. Also: I LOVE Dr. Peter Maryk! He does for the needle what Jimi Hendrix did for the guitar.
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Summary: Hogan Strikes Again
Review: I first came across this young writer's work with The Standoff. Once again, I was blown away by his incredible storytelling. This is a "must buy"!
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Summary: One of the best
Review: I love this book and since I live in the town that it takes place (i'll leave it up to you to find out)it makes it even more exiting. Though I doubt the town will ever reach 20,000 people. It's very interesting how a small town like ***** gets a deadly virus that kills every one exept 2. I don't want to give to much away so I'll leave it up to you.
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