Coma

This is one of the first Medical thrillers I read during my med school days. It is also one of my favorite ones. Robin Cook tells us this story through Susan Wheeler, who is a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients she knows goes into a coma in a perplexing manner after surgery, and s......more

* Coma starts out so well and encompasses such a wonderfully sinister plot that it's a shame it had to be written by Robin Cook. I read the author's Shock not too long ago. In the nearly 25 years that had elapsed between the publication of the books, Cook clearly hadn't learned a thing about creatin......more

Every male in this book is a a sexist and a chauvinist. So it makes it difficult to circumvent their attitudes to get the feel and fuel of the story. In the middle of the mystery the author has taken liberty to create an unimaginable romantic relationship with the (hero), and one of these misogynist......more

This was written in the 1970s, and I'm all for not judging old novels by modern standards... But yeesh... I've read books from the 1940s with more, shall we say, enlightened attitudes espoused between the covers. Take away that and the writing style, and you might just have a great little story here......more

I am not even hesitant to grant it a well-deserved five-star rating. What a truly scary book this was, about what humanity does best; subject their own kind to man-made horror, and that's the worst kind. A frightening tale Herr Docktor had cooked for us ( tell me you saw what I just did there, hehe......more