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Robin Cook (1) (1940–)

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Robin Cook (1) foi considerado como pseudónimo de Robin M. Cook.

65+ Works 38,213 Membros 566 Críticas 60 Favorited

About the Author

Robin (Robert William Arthur) Cook, the master of the medical thriller novel, was born to Edgar Lee Cook, a commercial artist and businessman, and Audrey (Koons) Cook on May 4, 1940, in New York City. Cook spent his childhood in Leonia, New Jersey, and decided to become a doctor after seeing a mostrar mais football injury at his high school. He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1962, his M.D. from Columbia University in 1966, and completed postgraduate training at Harvard before joining the U.S. Navy. Cook began his first novel, The Year of the Intern, while serving on a submarine, basing it on his experiences as a surgical resident. In 1979, Cook wed Barbara Ellen Mougin, on whom the character Denise Sanger in Brain is based. When Year of the Intern did not do particularly well, Cook began an extensive study of other books in the genre to see what made a bestseller. He decided to focus on suspenseful medical mysteries, mixing intricately plotted murder and intrigue with medical technology, as a way to bring controversial ethical and social issues affecting the medical profession to the attention of the general public. His subjects include organ transplants, genetic engineering, experimentation with fetal tissue, cancer research and treatment, and deadly viruses. Cook put this format to work very successfully in his next books, Coma and Sphinx, which not only became bestsellers, but were eventually adapted for film. Three others, Terminal, Mortal Fear, and Virus, and Cook's first science- fiction work, Invasion, have been television movies. In 2014 her title, Cell made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Robin Cook

Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como Robin M. Cook.

Coma (1977) 2,359 exemplares
Chromosome 6 (1997) 1,691 exemplares
Outbreak (1987) 1,625 exemplares
Contagion (1995) 1,608 exemplares
Toxin (1997) 1,566 exemplares
Vector (1999) 1,463 exemplares
Acceptable Risk (1994) 1,462 exemplares
Marker (2005) 1,278 exemplares
Fatal Cure (1994) 1,275 exemplares
Shock (2001) 1,221 exemplares
Crisis (2006) 1,210 exemplares
Invasion (1997) 1,190 exemplares
Terminal (1993) 1,189 exemplares
Blindsight (1992) 1,180 exemplares
Seizure (2003) 1,166 exemplares
Mutation (1989) 1,158 exemplares
Sphinx (1979) 1,148 exemplares
Brain (1981) 1,108 exemplares
Fever (1982) 1,096 exemplares
Harmful Intent (1990) 1,088 exemplares
Abduction (2000) 1,086 exemplares
Mortal Fear (1988) 1,050 exemplares
Critical (2007) 1,042 exemplares
Vital Signs (1991) 955 exemplares
Godplayer (1983) 931 exemplares
Mindbend (1985) 924 exemplares
Foreign Body (2008) 858 exemplares
Intervention (2009) 726 exemplares
Cure (2010) 591 exemplares
Death Benefit (2011) 449 exemplares
Nano (2013) 388 exemplares
Cell (2014) 363 exemplares
The Year Of The Intern (1972) 352 exemplares
Host (2015) 282 exemplares
Pandemic (2018) 245 exemplares
Charlatans (2017) 222 exemplares
Genesis (2019) 177 exemplares
Viral (2021) 104 exemplares
Night Shift (2022) 78 exemplares
Coma [1978 film] (1978) — Autor — 34 exemplares
Autopsie (1994) 20 exemplares
Vector / Contagion (2004) 18 exemplares
Toxin/Chromosome 6 Duo (Spl) (2004) 17 exemplares
Coma [and] Abduction (2008) 9 exemplares
Brain / Fatal Cure (1999) 6 exemplares
Aivot ; Kuume (1991) 4 exemplares
Toxin / Schock (2006) 3 exemplares
Robin Cook's virus 1 exemplar
Shattered 1 exemplar
Agy ; Szfinx (1998) 1 exemplar
Sphinx/Fever (2000) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Foram atribuídas obras ao autor também conhecido como Robin M. Cook.

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Cook, Robin
Nome legal
Cook, Robert William Arthur
Data de nascimento
1940-05-04
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
New York, New York, USA
Locais de residência
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Naples, Florida, USA
Queens, New York, USA
Leonia, New Jersey, USA
Educação
Wesleyan University (BS)
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD|1966)
Harvard Medical School (residency)
Ocupações
physician
novelist
Organizações
United States Navy
Woodrow Wilson Center's Board of Trustees
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

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Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health.

He is best known for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Several of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest. His books have sold nearly 400 million copies worldwide.

Cook was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Woodside, Queens, New York City. He moved to Leonia, New Jersey when he was eight, where he could first have the "luxury" of having his own room. He graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard.

Cook ran the Cousteau Society's blood-gas lab in the south of France. He later became an aquanaut (a submarine doc) with the U.S. Navy's SEALAB program when he was drafted in 1969. Cook served in the Navy from 1969 to 1971, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. He wrote his first novel, Year of the Intern, while serving on the Polaris submarine USS Kamehameha.

The Year of the Intern was a failure, but Cook began to study bestsellers. He said, "I studied how the reader was manipulated by the writer. I came up with a list of techniques that I wrote down on index cards. And I used every one of them in Coma." He conceived the idea for Coma, about illegally creating a supply of transplant organs, in 1975. In March 1977, that novel's paperback rights sold for $800,000. It was followed by the Egyptology thriller Sphinx in 1979 and another medical thriller, Brain, in 1981. Cook then decided he preferred writing over a career in medicine.

Cook's novels combine medical fact with fantasy. His medical thrillers are designed, in part, to keep the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing socio-ethical problems which come along with it. Cook says he chose to write thrillers because the forum gives him "an opportunity to get the public interested in things about medicine that they didn't seem to know about. I believe my books are actually teaching people."

The author admits he never thought that he would have such compelling material to work with when he began writing fiction in 1970. "If I tried to be the writer I am today a number of years ago, I wouldn't have very much to write about. But today, with the pace of change in biomedical research, there are any number of different issues, and new ones to come," he says.

Cook's novels have anticipated national controversy. In an interview with Stephen McDonald about the novel Shock, Cook admitted the book's timing was fortuitous.

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I was a Robin Cook fan. His recent books have gone downhill. I read about only 10%. I have not finished his last several books.
My notes next to Genesis, Cure, Charletons, and Night Shift, reflect the following annotations, DNF, DNC, did not finish, did not care.
 
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jstjst | 4 outras críticas | Mar 9, 2024 |
Unimaginative plot. High-school-level writing; maybe less. No depth in the science. Pathetically lame sex/romance thrown in.

For a book published in 2014, the idea of centralized, automated medical care is not surprising. Would've been a more interesting book to hear all the roadblocks that prevent such a concept from being deployed and keep the practice of medicine as poor as it is.
 
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donwon | 15 outras críticas | Jan 22, 2024 |
A modern (as of 1989) reimagining of Frankenstein, in this case an OB/Gyn who tries to bioengineer his own special genius child. Except the resulting monster is just a caricature bad seed monster I couldn't pity or empathize with, and the doctor is also a monster who I couldn't pity or empathize with. So it's a mostly entertaining story, but only barely worth spending the time to read it.

Hardcover, picked up on a clearance shelf somewhere for $2.00
 
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Doodlebug34 | 17 outras críticas | Jan 1, 2024 |
It's a little bit "body snatchers" and a little bit "tommyknockers" and I did some big eye-rolling in places, but still a quick fun read.

Very tattered paperback, picked up from the Friends of the Library gimme shelves. I'll send it back so someone else can laugh and roll their eyes over it.
 
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Doodlebug34 | 9 outras críticas | Jan 1, 2024 |

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Obras
65
Also by
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Membros
38,213
Popularidade
#471
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Críticas
566
ISBN
1,862
Línguas
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Marcado como favorito
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