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Title: There has to be a better way to spend a few hours...
Review: I picked up this book on the strength of the title and the handful of reviews at Amazon. I had previously read, and enjoyed, the Hot Zone and a couple of other books from this genre. I therefore had fairly high expectations. Sadly, this book was a serious disappointment. While the science provided by the physician author is laid out well, the plot is so trite, the characters so two-dimensional and stereotypical, and the dialog so wooden that I seriously contemplated abandoning the book mid-way through. I had always assumed that writing a pot-boiler a-la Grisham, Crichton et al, must be something that it would be hard to do badly. This author has certainly dispelled that notion.
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