Terminal

The ratings for TERMINAL are surprising.

This was not that bad a book folks...it was involved and pretty loaded with medical jargon, but it carried itself along with interest. Sure, it may not have been one of Robin Cook's greatest books, but it sure isn't as bad as some of these reviews. I listen to a lot of books on tape and this one kept me going...it didn't lag. It wasn't as good as VECTOR, but it wasn't that bad either! Shawn and Janet are the main characters and they did a good job of finding out the real culprits...get the book on tape...it's a fast listen.

SAVE YOUR TIME!

No matter how bad or boring a book is, I feel it necessary to finish it. I can't believe I wasted a week of my life reading this! Save your time & money. I enjoy Robin Cook, but HATED this novel!

You've got to be kidding me!!!

First of all, no matter how bad a book is, I read it all the way through. I managed to get through this book and when I read the last page I knew it for sure then. This was absolutely the WORST book I've ever read in my entire life!!!

Robin Cook really lost touch with reality with this one. This was the first book I read by this author and I'm giving him a second chance with Acceptable Risk.

Threw it into the garbage can in disgust...

I cannot believe i had wasted my time reading this book while on vacation. The main character Sean is so unreal in every sense of the word that i am even more shocked when i found out that the author of this book was a medical doctor?!? Such an arrogant cartoonish character no real intern could ever become...like you get the feeling Sean is more fascinated in spy work right from the start since his enormous knowledge in the medical field is without question....like hello!! you are a medical student, not an experience know it all. I never seen stuff like this on ER. Janet is the nurse conspirator that seem to have a multiple personality complex in being so pompous in the beginning, then a complete change later into the plot that you get he feeling it was another nurse with the same name so i thought something sinister is happening here but the author never explained. There are many subplots that just doesn't lead to anything that really matters or it becomes lost and you don't hear from it again....a possible sequel, i hope not!!!

I just this post below by jessica who had given 5 stars...Ummm are you like related to Dr.Cook because it happen to be the only post you have on here....nice try :) My guess is that the only people who would rate this book highly are those related to him or can't tell a horrible written book from a good one, is that even possible?

The next time i read a book, i will get some reviews first before i read something as bad as this. I just didn't get the chance to and the back cover summary seem promising...WRONG when picking up this paperback at a yardsale for 10 cent days before i head off on vacation and i feel like being rip off!!!!

TERMINAL

Robin Cook's medical thriller TERMINAL was so amazing, that it is hard to put into words. His use of medical knowledge really shows through in this novel and many of his others. When I first picked up this book I was expecting it to be interesting but a slow read, and I was not expecting to understand it at all. Let's just say that I have never been more wrong in my entire life. This book was exciting right from the beginning, and maintained that status the entire novel, from chapter one to the very last page. Even the afterward was thrilling. I was also wrong about it being a slow read, in reality I read this book faster than I have read any other book, ever, it took me an exciting two days to finish this amazing novel. I was wrong about it being boring and slow but the thing I was most incorrect about was that I would not be able to understand it. I have never been so wrong in my entire life. From start to finish there was not one thing that went unexplained or was unclear. The medical terminology was a mouth full but every term and every sickness was explained so that the reader could understand it, whether you are a world class neurosurgeon, a realtor, or a fourteen year old girl, you would not be confused while reading this or any of his other novels.
In the medical thriller TERMINAL a man named Shawn Green is a medical student who is interested in a type of brain cancer called meduloblastoma. Because of his interest he takes an elective at a cancer hospital in Miami Florida, where one of his patients from boston has been transferred to. He never expected that this hospital had a murderer on its staff or that it might be creating the cancer and injecting it into patients and then treating them. While calling there treatment A miracle cure for the deadly disease. Maybe that is why all the patients who have developed this illness just had a minor surgery. Also happen to be filthy rich because they are CEO's of companies. Or because they are immediate family members of those who are. Shawn and his girlfriend Janet, who is a nurse at the hospital, begin piecing all the evidence together and have the case about solved but then the murderer tries to kill Janet. This is tragic, but she does not die, and it brings them even closer to solving the mystery. They are snooping around the hospital when they find the head doctors travel records and they discover that she was in every hospital when all of the cancer patients had there minor surgery before they contracted meduloblastoma.
The case is solved but to find out the end and all the invigorating details check out Robin Cooks's medical thriller TERMINAL. This book is especially good if you are looking for suspense, and intellect, as opposed to the normal mystery of nothing all the way through and finally something. You will not be bored for an instant with this novel. I definitely recommend that you read Robin Cook's TERMINAL.