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    Audiobook11 hours

    Coma

    Written by Robin Cook

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
    They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up.
    Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning.
    Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in--or a victim of--a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateSep 23, 2014
    ISBN9781478985907
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    Coma
    Author

    Robin Cook

    Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word ‘medical’ to the thriller genre, and decades after the publication of his 1977 breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce over thirty international bestsellers, including Outbreak, Terminal, Contagion, Chromosome 6, Foreign Body, Intervention and Cure.

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    • 4/5
      Good read, do not like the way it eneded at all.
    • 3/5
      Predictable and took a long time for the heroine to figure out the mystery. Also, WAY MORE attention to the dynamic of female doctors and bias in work environments. It clearly sounds like what a man would assume thinks about when it comes to female equality. From that standpoint, I found myself checking out for long periods of story that dealt with that topic. It was painfully written and I hate to say that. I finished it, but halfway through I was just impatiently waiting for her to get around to figure it out for herself. Doesn’t make her seem like a medical student at all :-/

      I won’t listen to it again, but I gave him a shot!
    • 5/5
      A very intense and unique read! Hard to get through this book because of the anxiety it caused. But hard to not press forward!
    • 5/5
      Awesome book. Highest recommendations. Fantastic story and the narrator did a great job.
    • 5/5
      Great momentum to the book. Predictable ending but still a good listen.
    • 5/5
      This was a really good book! I love medical thrillers, so when I found this one on Scribd, its name and description caught my attention right away. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down! All through it, I was rooting for Susan, hoping she could figure things out and manage to stay safe at the same time. I felt everything I think she would have felt, and I felt like I was right there with her as she figured things out and tried to stay ahead of those who wanted to keep her quiet. I'll definitely be checking out more books by this author!
    • 5/5
      I enjoyed opening my audiobook while painting every evening! It was an exciting story to listen to. The curiosity grew as the plot thickened.
    • 4/5
      This was truly amazing. Very well written. I highly suggest everyone reads this.
    • 4/5
      Very trippy book. Had to finish it in a single sitting and left me in something of an altered state for a few hours afterwards. Highly recommended
    • 3/5
      This was an interesting book. I'm not sure exactly what happened at the end though. Maybe I missed something.
    • 1/5
      I wasn't interested in one man's idea of what a person might experience while in a coma, seeing as the author had no relevant experience to offer.

      I guess the lesson we've learned here is that I should stop reading books that I find on the street in my neighborhood.
    • 5/5
      Loved the book.

      It's a shame the description gave the whole plot away! If I would have read it before I listened to the book, I wouldn't even have bothered. You may want to hire a better description writer.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      predictable but insightful..loved the characters and enlightenment into womens intuition

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    • 2/5
      Coma starts off very promisingly; Carl is in a coma, and we suffer along with him all his experiences, never sure what is real and what imagined, never sure what is his real state or condition. Up to this point it is a fascinating read, and we are probably switching from one opinion to another as to what the reality is, however when we finally learn what the reality is comes as something of a let down. There is no question about the quality of the writing and how well it conveys dream like images, but its drift toward a somewhat predicable conclusion seems to be a lost opportunity, an opportunity for something really imaginative.
    • 3/5
      Very easy read, I finished it in a 4 - hour shift at the bookstore where I work. I felt as if the book was leading to something, thats why I kept reading, however the ending felt unfinished. I hate novels that do not give you a clear ending, it almost feels like laziness on behalf of the author.
    • 4/5
      The Coma has a simple premise: while commuting home late one night, a man named Carl tries to protect a woman from thugs on a train and finds himself brutally assaulted. After being released from hospital he realises that something is wrong: his life is disjointed, impossible things are happening, and he seems to be hallucinating. He soon realises that he never left the hospital at all, and that he is trapped in a coma. Realising that he must be the instrument of his own salvation, he sets about exploring the dreamscape in an effort to wake up.Clocking in at around two hundred pages (this is one of the first books I've read in ages that doesn't number its pages; I got the count off Amazon), many of which are white space of woodcut illustrations made by garland's father, The Coma is a quick and easy read. It had to be, of course - an exploration of one's mental landscape, with all the metaphors and weirdness required, would be far too tedious to cover a whole novel. As it stands, Garland manages the description quite well, and The Coma never feels like a chore to read - although novellas rarely do. It does work quite well as a story, with a few glimpses of figures in Carl's hospital room making intriguing statements providing mystery, plus the simple desire to find out whether or not he successfully wakes up. There's also an unsettling sense of eerie alienation, with a few genuinely disturbing scenes; this is a book that could very easily be adapted into a horror film.Interesting enough to hold my attention. Not worth seeking out, but certainly worth the $5 for which I bought it at Borders' holy-shit-we-are-on-the-brink-of-bankruptcy sale.
    • 3/5
      Alex Garland wrote The Beach and the screenplay for 28 Days Later, so I was expecting something a bit less predictable from this shortish story, illustrated with woodcuts by his father, political cartoonist Nicholas Garland. The Coma makes the reader think, but our thought-lines run in fairly obvious directions, as does Carl’s, the narrator and coma patient. It has – or could have, if Garland had let it – an interesting psychological angle, and there are moments that provoke an unsettled reaction, but as professional a writer as Garland obviously is, I can’t help feeling that the subject and event line were pulled from a list of college essay-writing options.An easy read, not a complete waste of time, but I was left with the urge to smack the author about the head and point out that he’s a high calibre writer who can deliver better.
    • 3/5
      The author is known for writing The Beach- his breakout work which will still remain the book I reccomend to others interested in his work. The Coma is an interesting read and is very short and accessible. It is simply the story of a man in a coma. To say more is to render reading the book almost unneccessary. I bought into what Alex Garland was trying to do in the book but felt as though the exercise ultimately didn't have much of a point and actually became quite tiresome about 3/4s of the way through the book. I remained for his fluid and evocative style of writing and the amazing woodprints done by his father that are liberally sprinkled through the book. If you're interested in the book I would borrow it from the library before buying it to see if it's something you wish to have forever. In my opinion; I wanted to read the book being a fan of Alex Garland's style and writing interests but wouldn't want to commit permanent shelf space to it.
    • 3/5
      At the beginning I had a very hard time understanding what was going on, but then everything fell into place and I enjoyed this surprising book.
    • 5/5
      I read this in 2 and a half hours yesterday and I'm not an avid reader. I rarely finish books but this one got to me. I love Librarything cause I can now get valid recommendations and see what other's are reading. Someone recommended The Beach to me but it wasn't there at the bookstore so I picked this one up instead, and just kept reading and reading to finish. It wasn't that long but I felt like I was travelling with him through his unconscious, it was great!
    • 3/5
      I had high hopes for this book, but they were quickly dashed as I journeyed with the main character. I do not feel that the lines between dream state and reality were that blurred, and it was all incredibly predictable. The premise was wonderful and had so much potential, but it wasn't pulled off well.
    • 4/5
      Wow. I loved this book. Six months after reading it I still think about it a lot. It's a small quick read and works on you much the same way as Lost and the movie Memento do in that it makes you question reality.