Brain (Signet)

by Robin Cook

1982

Status

Available

Genres

Horror

All Topics

Fiction

Collection

Standard Shelves

Publication

Signet (1982), Edition: First Thus, 1 pages

Description

Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Thriller. Both of them suspected that something was wrong�??terribly wrong�??in the great medical research center where they worked. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young woman had died on the operating table and her brain secretly removed. Both of them found it impossible to explain the rash of female patients exhibiting bizarre mental breakdowns and shocking behavior. Both of them were placing their careers and very lives in deadly jeopardy as they penetrated the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad with technological power and the lust for m

User reviews

LibraryThing member sjh4255

A medical suspense novel that although it is a little dated, still is very much valid in terms of diagnosing and symptoms related to brain diseases. The cases represented are fascinating to read about the diagnosis, and the description of the symptoms the patient experiences, especially since I am

all too familiar with them. Some of the medical descriptions are a bit wordy for my taste, but the author did a great job in keeping the jargon to a minimum and easy to read and understand without having a medical dictionary near by. NOW, having said all that, the computer stuff was very humorous.. 40 years of computer technology has come a long way, and I imagine the computers they are describing making lots of 80's computer noises (beep beep boop) and lots of flashing lights, like when the death star is getting powered up.. considering the room sized computers they speak of which are "top of the line" don't even come close to your cell phone or computer you are reading this on now.. I guess a bit of imagination is required to get past that part... overall a good read for sure, not bad for a book I picked up for free from a lending library...

Show Less

6 more

LibraryThing member seldombites

Brain is definitely the best Robin Cook novel I have read so far. The characters are very well-developed, the thrills are realistic and the end is entirely unexpected. Though the porn trade is mentioned in the blurb, this is not a big part of the story. This novel is so frightening, you will never

look at hospitals in the same way again!

Show Less

LibraryThing member DonnaJWolfe

When a doctor uncovers unethical research, he does what he must to save himself and his wife.

LibraryThing member pauliharman

A radiologist stumbles upon a plot involving young women treated at a clinic at his hospital. Where are the women vanishing to, what do their symptoms mean, and what is the involvement of the leading neurosurgeon at the hospital? Reasonably entertaining although the later chapters seem rushed and

the ending rather forced.

Show Less

LibraryThing member e.krepska

I have read many novels by Robin Cook and, for the first time, I found a disappointing one. The suspense (when you do not know what is going on in the hospital) grows for a very long time, perhaps as much as 80% of the book, to have a very short, and ridiculous, climax and an unclear and weak

ending.

Show Less

LibraryThing member christinejoseph

medical thriller @ unorthodox researcher

Both of them suspected that something was wrong--terribly wrong--in the great medical research center where they worked. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young woman had died on the operating table and her brain secretly removed. Both of them found it

impossible to explain the rash of female patients exhibiting bizarre mental breakdowns and shocking behavior. Both of them were placing their careers and very lives in deadly jeopardy as they penetrated the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad with technological power and the lust for more...

Show Less

LibraryThing member HenriMoreaux

This story seemed like it was heading in the traditional Cook direction of hospital/clinic knocking patients off to save money however it then lurched off into the absurd. The ending of the story is so fantastical and out there it wouldn't even make a good B movie plot.

Disappointing.

Fewer