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Summary: I want to make Chuck Hogan bleed...
Review: I read this book a couple years ago. Since then, it has disturbed me to the point that I can't sleep, eat, think, or anything else."Because it is that good... that scary... that captivating?" you ask... NO! I can't sleep because I can't stop thinking about how I want to exact some measure of revenge on Hogan for putting me through such a terrible book. Everytime I think of good ol' Chuck, I get this cramping feeling in my stomach and have to run to the bathroom to take a 'Chuck' and wipe my 'Hogan.' I swear I could feel my IQ dropping the more I read the book. The only reason I finished it was that I kept HOPING that Hogan would somehow manage to turn the book around with a really gripping ending. Well... it didn't happen. Somebody please stop this man before he attempts to publish again! Ok. Enough bashing. Now to try to help you. Needless to say, DON'T buy this book. If you like the premise of this book, then 'Hotzone' by Richard Preston IS a good book. It is nonfiction but reads like a novel. I have not read Robin Cook's 'Outbreak' but it HAS to be better than this one. The movie was great and Cook knows what he is talking about when it comes to medical issues since he is an M.D. Well... I quess that is what I get for buying an unknown book at Walmart on a whim....
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Summary: I want to make Chuck Hogan bleed...
Review: I read this book a couple years ago. Since then, it has disturbed me to the point that I can't sleep, eat, think, or anything else. "Because it is that good... that scary... that captivating?" you ask... NO! I can't sleep because I can't stop thinking about how I want to exact some measure of revenge on Hogan for putting me through such a terrible book. Everytime I think of good ol' Chuck, I get this cramping feeling in my stomach and have to run to the bathroom to take a 'Chuck' and wipe my 'Hogan.' I swear I could feel my IQ dropping the more I read the book. The only reason I finished it was that I kept HOPING that Hogan would somehow manage to turn the book around with a really gripping ending. Well... it didn't happen. Somebody please stop this man before he attempts to publish again! Ok. Enough bashing. Now to try to help you. Needless to say, DON'T buy this book. If you like the premise of this book, then 'Hotzone' by Richard Preston IS a good book. It is nonfiction but reads like a novel. I have not read Robin Cook's 'Outbreak' but it HAS to be better than this one. The movie was great and Cook knows what he is talking about when it comes to medical issues since he is an M.D. Well... I quess that is what I get for buying an unknown book at Walmart on a whim....
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Summary: A very good and unique kind of thriller
Review: In 2010, virologists Peter Maryk and Stephen Pearse work together on developing a synthetic blood substitute. However, their work is interrupted by a new type of viral epidemic in Africa. Failing to stop the disease, they have the village and its residents destroyed to abort a pandemic outbreak. In 2012 that same virus kills most of the inhabitants of a Massachusetts town and seems to be eliberately striking other places as well. By 2016, Pearse is dying from the disease, which seems to be purposely spread by a malevolent being who is a virus in human form. Only one person, a survivor of the Massachusetts outbreak, has the immunity to stop the deliberate and cunning killer, who plans to use more mundane means to eradicate his only threat. THE BLOOD ARTISTS is a strange futuristic thriller filled with plenty of action. The characters are all top rate, especially the two virologists, the Massachusetts survivor, and the serial killing virus. Though there are moments when the tale seems to need a blood transplant due to uneven pacing, Chuck Hogan's newest novel will be fully enjoyed by fans of the sub-genre as a one sitting chiller. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Hogan Strikes Again
Review: In Hogan's future world, overuse have rendered anti-biotics completely ineffective and blood becomes sacred. Could never happen? Don't bet on it. The pace is fast, the characters are very well drawn and you are hooked from word one. The future Hogan describes is completely believable. Don't start this one at bedtime unless you are prepared to see the sun come up!
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Summary: Just plain scary
Review: In Hogan's future world, overuse have rendered anti-biotics completely ineffective and blood becomes sacred. Could never happen? Don't bet on it. The pace is fast, the characters are very well drawn and you are hooked from word one. The future Hogan describes is completely believable. Don't start this one at bedtime unless you are prepared to see the sun come up!
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Summary: Absolutely the worst book... total waste of time.
Review: The best thing about the book is probably the cover. The story starts out ok but has the worst ending ever. Hogan has the two opposing doctors/scientists, after they get infected with the virus, turn into monsters (or whatever you want to call them) and basically fist-fight it out. Come on... that might be ok for a comic book, and is something I may have liked as a kid, but for a novel for adults, it's terrible. Absolutely the worst book I have ever read. Instead, read "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. Much much better... and it's nonfiction!
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Summary: EEK!! TERRIFYING, TOTALLY GROSS, CAN'T-PUT-IT-DOWN STORY!!
Review: Well, I wasn't sure at first I was going to like this novel. Hogan's use of first person during the first few chapters is not my favorite writing style but I stuck with it and VOILA!!! What a TERRIFYING, TOTALLY GROSS, CAN'T-PUT-IT-DOWN story this turned out to be. This makes you cringe at Humankind's defenselessness! First there are Drs. Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk, "The Blood Artists." Together, they are a whole person, acting with both commitment and conscience. When they separate and go their own way for a few years, neither can act as complete and dedicated (and honorable) scientists, one possessing the charm and goodness (Pearse), the other (Maryk), possessing the determination and devotion to the "virus". Then there are the survivors of the devastagin "Plainville" virus that wiped out the entire town, except MILKMAID, LANCET and BLOSSOM. Though they survived, their lives are hopelessly and completely changed forever. Finally, we meet Oren Ridgeway a.k.a. "Patient Zero". But really he is never Ridgeway in the story, only "Zero", as is totally and evily fitting. In spite of the complicated story and the plethora of "Main Characters", author Hogan does a fine job of weaving the plot and the lives of the characters into a story that you can actually care about. In the end, I actually hoped for a sequel!!! Perhaps Hogan will grant us that someday for after all, "Plainville" isn't really dead....
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Summary: EEK!! TERRIFYING, TOTALLY GROSS, CAN'T-PUT-IT-DOWN STORY!!
Review: Well, I wasn't sure at first I was going to like this novel. Hogan's use of first person during the first few chapters is not my favorite writing style but I stuck with it and VOILA!!! What a TERRIFYING, TOTALLY GROSS, CAN'T-PUT-IT-DOWN story this turned out to be. This makes you cringe at Humankind's defenselessness! First there are Drs. Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk, "The Blood Artists." Together, they are a whole person, acting with both commitment and conscience. When they separate and go their own way for a few years, neither can act as complete and dedicated (and honorable) scientists, one possessing the charm and goodness (Pearse), the other (Maryk), possessing the determination and devotion to the "virus". Then there are the survivors of the devastagin "Plainville" virus that wiped out the entire town, except MILKMAID, LANCET and BLOSSOM. Though they survived, their lives are hopelessly and completely changed forever. Finally, we meet Oren Ridgeway a.k.a. "Patient Zero". But really he is never Ridgeway in the story, only "Zero", as is totally and evily fitting. In spite of the complicated story and the plethora of "Main Characters", author Hogan does a fine job of weaving the plot and the lives of the characters into a story that you can actually care about. In the end, I actually hoped for a sequel!!! Perhaps Hogan will grant us that someday for after all, "Plainville" isn't really dead....
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Summary: Absolutely the worst book... total waste of time.
Review: What a waste of time; I am glad I checked this out at the library rather thasn buying it. The characters are cardboard...never feel that you know about them or care what happens to them. I like good science fiction and good medical suspense thrillers, but this wasn't one of them. A "human virus"....please!!
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Summary: BOOORing!!
Review: What a waste of time; I am glad I checked this out at the library rather thasn buying it. The characters are cardboard...never feel that you know about them or care what happens to them. I like good science fiction and good medical suspense thrillers, but this wasn't one of them. A "human virus"....please!!
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