Abduction [Hardcover]

Robin Cook (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 2000

BERKELEY PUBLISHING 2000

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group; Book Club (BCE/BOMC) edition (2000)
• ISBN-10: 0739413740
• ISBN-13: 978-0739413746
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (188 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #115,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre, and over twenty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fantasy to produce a over twenty-seven international bestsellers, including Outbreak (1987), Terminal (1993), Contagion (1996), Chromosome 6 (1997) and Foreign Body (2008).

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Start, Poor Finish, November 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Abduction (Mass Market Paperback)

Having read all of Robin Cook's books, I expected another wonderful read filled with suspense and explicit character development. This book failed those tests. The storyline was original, but halfway through the book, I found myself wondering why Cook failed to expond more on the questionable behaivor of his characters. The story could have gone a long way, but I found myself anxious to finish and get it over with. I recently read both suspense books by James Rollins and found those to be fantastic

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE YEAR'S SILLIEST NOVELS!, November 7, 2000

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Nick G - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abduction (Mass Market Paperback)

When a crew of oceanographers receive a mysterious transmission, they are led to a discovery beyond all imagination...a world far beneath the ocean's surface.

Amazed with their finding, the crew is quick to make friends with the undersea people, and adapt to the customs of this civilization (including making love; which consists of hand cream and hand touching, and never having to work since each person has a work clone).

The crew believes what they learn will change what we know on earth...but at what price?

What is this, you ask? The latest thriller from bestselling MEDICAL THRILLER author, Robin Cook.

"Abduction" is a straight to paperback original novel, and easily one of the silliest book's of the year.

I am still shocked that this book is written by Robin Cook! I have been a fan of Mr. Cook's previous novels, and this book is a serious disappointment. It seems MANY authors are trying to broaden the scope of their writing, unfortunately, they are NOT succeeding. PLEASE go back to writing medical thrillers.

The book earned one star because the first couple of chapters were interesting, other than that it is totally un-readable. Avoid this book, and wait for his next hardcover!

Nick Gonnella

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do not buy. Do not borrow. Do not read., September 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Abduction (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is appallingly bad. The plot, such as it is, is risible. The characters are cardboard. The dialogue is excruciating. The scientific accuracy is lacking. The writing is terrible.

Even worse, editing and proofing are absent. Proofing would have picked up on the use of 'base' for musical bass, or 'foolhearty' for foolhardy in my US mass paperback edition of November 2000. Or the incomplete sentences with missing words. (Despite waving the title 'Dr' around a lot, the author doesn't appear to be particularly literate.) Any editor would have rejected this from a slushpile.

Worst of all, the lazy throwaway ending to the book is a lame reference to the author having been to Harvard. It's presumably a joke - and
the joke is on the reader who has gotten that far. It is tempting to make comparisons with Michael Crichton's 'Sphere' - the worst of Crichton's books that I've yet read, also set undersea - but Sphere was, for all its faults, far better written.

Jeffrey Archer writes better than this. Heck, L. Ron Hubbard has written better stuff than this. And he was probably dead at the time.

I will never read another Robin Cook novel. I urge you to do the same.