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Title: Good story-Bad writing
Review: This book The Mutation, by Robin Cook, started out with such amazing promise. It had all the qualifications of a great book. It had a good story line of a mad scientist genetically altering his own child in order to make him the smartest man on the planet, a sort of frankenstein remake. It also had a good setting. The lab where the scientist goes mad is beautifully laid out. Plenty of room for mischief. Somewhere Mr. Cook lost his way though. He got too caught up in giving all these elaborate scientific terms and directions to places that we really don't need to know. I mean why would i care what highway exit somebody had to take to get to a place that really adds nothing to the story line at all. He lost me between that and the part where the 10 year old genious slash drug lord ends up killing people. Im sorry to say this but this isn't a "scientific thriller", it is a "scienfic bummer."
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