The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
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Manufacturer: Anchor
Written By: Richard Preston
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.57
EAN: 9780385479561
ISBN: 0385479565
Label: Anchor
Manufacturer: Anchor
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 1995-07-20
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date: 1995-07-20
Studio: Anchor
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Editorial Reviews for The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story
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A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the
appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.
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Summary: Nerve Shattering Story
Comment: I read this book in two days. The first few chapters keep you reading with mixed fascination and terror as you try to picture a human being melting from the inside out. Great writing. The book slows in the last half and gets a little more technical, but non-fiction does that because all life is not lived like a novel. I think the author does his best to satisfy (not offend) animal rights people. Overall, the book is an intense look at some scary life forms that will sure keep me from poking around in strange caves.
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Summary: This Story Is A Nightmare...
Comment: Reading this book was a downer, a bummer, and was the only book in 35 years of reading that gave me nightmares, made worse by the fact that it's a true story.
As a medical professional, I read it to the end and it's the ONLY part of science that I'm shamed. Research on hundreds of thousands of aminals 'sacrificed' for observation, research, 'safety', theory.
If u want to read about the extensive confinement, torture and massacre of thousands of healthy, intellegent aminals, go ahead and read it.
It's not the book that is sad, it's the story that's pathetic.
No cure was found, the source of the 'disease' wasn't found.
Robert Redford called the book a 'thriller'. It is a B-U-M-M-E-R...
There's no happy ending, no highlights, not even a smile to be found.
It starts with death and goes downhill from there. A roller coaster ride into muck. The roller coaster crashes and takes peoples' conscience with it. It's a legal massacre of the aminal kingdom with no reparations, replinishment or consideration of consequence.
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Summary: Good, but got a little old and redundant
Comment: Well I read the first part of this book really fast, I couldn't put it down, but by the middle of the book I felt like the author was repeating everything over and over again. He was also going into such lengthy details about the environment, which I found stale and boring. I would skip and few pages then read on.. So I wouldn't really recommend this book, I was hoping for so much more..
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Summary: Good for Non-Fiction
Comment: This book was required summer reading for me, and at first I was a little bit hesitant to pick up a non-ficiton book. I usually gravitate more towardes horror novels. However, this book suprised and delighted me. It read like a cohesive fiction novel, it didn't throw too many facts or figures or scientific jargan at you. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in viruses or any type of science field.
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Summary: A True Horror Story
Comment: Fascinated by anything related to virology, I love this book. As a account of true events, it is a page turner. It does not read like the stereotypical stuffy non-fiction book. I could not put it down. I felt I was right there in the labs with the protagonists. I almost felt as though I would come down with the virus just by reading about it.
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