Talk:Robin Cook (novelist)

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[edit] novels

i will be adding links to the book titles i just don't have time right at this moment --Larsie 16:10, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I made some major modifications from the original page, with the hope of improving it's appearance, and broadening it's information.Paul1966 02:46, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I made some minor modifications, some minor typos are fixed Paul1966 12:43, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

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Robin Cook's "Abduction."

--Crwriter 06:20, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

I've just finished this book and initially thought it shallow. Then I realised perhaps it was I who was a bit shallow. A society who has nothing better to do than enjoy life after conquering all aspects of technological possibilities leaves little to be desired.

But therein lies the rub for me: It seems, throughout the book, that the desires of the "Middle-Earth" folks are clear and singular -- get it when you can and all the time and in as many ways as possible. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. Middle-Earth men and women do not adandon themselves to freedom of the arts and bliss in access to all kinds of personal fulfillment, they abandon themselves to bodily bliss. I see no solace in that kind of existence.

I've often said that money is the root of all social ills. Pile it up and burn it all. Cook's Middle-Earth, Utopian society accomplishes this. But to cheapen such a society by giving them nothing better to do on the surface but have a good time with a bunch of primitives leaves no room for the true possibilities of such a society. And to endow them with a superficial innocence leaves even more to be desired.

You could have done better, Robin Cook.

"By writing medical thrillers, Dr. Cook has given a new and eerie angle to the thriller genre" "Cook got a taste of the larger world " "Keeping his lab coat handy helps him turn our fear of doctors into bestsellers" etc, etc.

This bio reads like it's a marketing review for his books - the writing is too embellished and it sounds as though some portions were lifted from a jacket cover.192.206.151.130 (talk) 14:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC) edit: grammar and spelling 192.206.151.130 (talk) 14:56, 10 January 2008 (UTC)