Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Extremely Unusual and Fascinating Medical Fiction: The Characters Create Realistic Fiction -- Review of Robin Cook's "Charlatans"

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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258

September 12, 2017

Extremely Unusual and Fascinating Medical Fiction:

The Characters Create Realistic Fiction

A Review of

Robin Cook Charlatans (Putnam, 2017)
                      $27.00   437 pp   ISBN: 9780735212480

Reviewer:  Forrest W. Schultz


     Although I have been a Robin Cook fan since he began writing novels, I have never before written a review of them here because they are not science fiction or fantasy.  And, strictly speaking, his latest one is also NOT in either of those genres, BUT I have decided to review it anyway because two of the main characters have concocted very elaborate and realistic fantasies about their own lives, and because these concoctions involve the usage of the so-called “social media”, about which there is currently a lot of discussion and debate concerning their harmfulness.  So this story is very relevant.  And it is also one of the most interesting and unusual novels I have ever read!  Here is a challenge to you, the reader:  after you have read Cook’s story, try to decide whether or not there is any justification for regarding these two aforementioned characters as “charlatans”.   

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