#robin cook

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Looks like your days of being a real man are over.

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Perhaps the most popular Spitting Image sketch featuring Tony Blair: the tale of his sentient portrait!

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AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'...we all realize we are at risk. We're all going to be patients sometime. You can write about great white sharks or haunted houses, and you can say I'm not going into the ocean or I'm not going in haunted houses, but you can't say you're not going to go into a hospital.'

'The best thing about being a writer, particularly a writer of fiction, is that you and you alone are in control. The writing process can be kind'a lonely at times, but it gives one a feeling of power in that the storyline and the characters are totally dependent on your intellect and creativity.'

'I get up and sit myself down even if I want to do something different. You have to push yourself. You have to find that kind of discipline. I figured it out a long time ago. I have to have a separate place in my house to write. Writing is not easy. It takes a lot of effort.'

Author Extraordinaire Robin Cook

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Robin Cook - Sphinx - Le Livre de Poche - 1979

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Coma (Robin Cook) "Susan Wheeler is a medical student working at the Boston Memorial Hospital. Young, healthy patients are coming in for routine operations and leaving in permanent comas. Susan investigates, eventually unearthing an Organ Theft conspiracy. Apparently, they started using hospital patients who were already comatose, but demand (and profits) is such that they start artificially inducing brain death in healthy patients undergoing surgery to get more victims."

Excerpt from Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Luo Guanzhong) "Untitled, fictitious story in the larger work, meant to demonstrate Liu Bei's incredible character. He stops at the home of Liu An (a hunter, and one of his relatives). Liu An doesn't have enough meat to feed his lord and his retinue, to he kills, butchers, cooks and serves his own wife so that Liu Bei and company wouldn't be under-served. When Liu Bei finds out this he is shocked, but not outraged, at having been unknowingly fed human flesh. He is, instead, amazed at Liu An's devotion to hospitality (to the point of feeding his lord his own wife), and instead praises him as a model citizen. And this is a story the author inserted to make Liu Bei sound more virtuous and heroic than he was in actual history!"

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Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Coma Blu-ray, which releases on August 22 via Scream Factory. The 1978 mystery thriller is based on Robin Cook’s 1977 novel of the same name.

Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Westworld) writes and directs. Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, and Richard Widmark star.

Coma has been newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive with DTS-HD MA Dual Mono sound. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary with film critic Lee Gambin and novelist Aaron Dries

Theatrical trailer

TV spots

Photo gallery

Ten cases. Now 12. Why are young, healthy patients admitted for minor surgery at Boston Memorial Hospital ending up on life support? Dr. Susan Wheeler (Geneviève Bujold) wants to know. Somebody else wants her dead.

Pre-order Coma.

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Coma

Author: Robin Cook

Medical Thriller / Suspense

Page Count: 308

How did I come across this book?:

Roughly 6-7 years ago a coworker lent me this book. Didn't say anything about it- just said it was good and told me to read it.

About 5-6 years ago they asked me if I finished the book because they wanted/needed it back and I said - "I'll start reading it tomorrow and have it finished by the weekend"

Well, that didn't happen.

Review:

This book was a great surprise - I feel like a A-Hole (medical term) for not reading this sooner.

Definitely a hidden gem from 1977 that I would have never sought out.

The beginning of the book can feel heavy handed with the hospital setting, but once our main character, a strong independent woman, gets into the thick of things - it cruises.

Absolutely love how the last half of the book played out - very grounded but immensely engaging.

I would definitely recommend this book to others - but - find your own copy... I gotta return this page-turner to its rightful owner.

Personal Rating: 6/10

Yearly Book Total: 46

Total Page Count: 16,702 pages

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Jeremy Corbyn: Starmer move flagrant attack on democracy.

Local party members must select election candidates, not the party leader.Under the current practice John Smith, Robin Cook, Tony Benn would have been banished because leader didn’t like them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64656900 Starmer is an egregious liar, and so many of the media hacks who cried about Johnson’s dishonesty say nothing about Starmer, because repeatedly lying is…

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Eyes Colour in United Kingdom/British Politicians Part 4

Labour Party (New Labour)

- John Prescott

- Robin Cook

- Jack Straw

- Margaret Beckett

- David Blunkett

- Cherie Blair (Née Booth)

- Charlie Whelan

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My favourite time of the month is the charity booksale

My total for all 7 books was =$4!

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In your best interest to behave ❤

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The best of Schoolboy Blair!

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Robert Finlayson "Robin" Cook was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 until his death in 2005 and served in th...

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Coma by Robin Cook

Rating: ⭐⭐

Read: April 17th, 2024 - May 23rd, 2024

Genre: Medical Thriller

Synopsis: “They call it “minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others, all admitted to Memorial Hospital for routine procedures, are victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never wake up again.

“Some traceless error in anesthesia has caused irreversible brain death, leaving each of them in a hopeless coma.

“Something is very wrong here. And Susan Wheeler, a beautiful young medical student, hazards her life to uncover the horrifying explanation—a plot so ghastly, so far-reaching, so terrifyingly incredible yet so nightmarishly possible, it will leave you suspended in a state of fear…”

Thoughts: The book is very slow to start, so when the action suddenly ramps up it’s a little bit jarring. Once that happens though (a little more than halfway through the book) the readability also increases. That’s not to mention the sheer amount of sexism (despite the attempts at commentary of having a female protagonist working in a male dominated industry) was disgusting. The majority of it can be chalked up to being published in 1977 and a clumsy effort of feminist writing, but the effect of every single male character—including the love interest—being a chauvinist did the opposite in many ways. Though not the worst thing I’ve ever read, definitely not something I would recommend or reread in the future.