Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | Life Support |
| author | Tess Gerritsen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-553-81773-6 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-553-81773-7 |
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| date | 2009-Mar-25 |
Toby Harper is a doctor at a hospital. She usually works the night shift at the ER. One night the cops bring in a completely disoriented elderly man who unfortunately leaves again some time later without a proper diagnosis. This already turns her live somewhat upside down, but things start to really go wrong when a few weeks later another man comes in with the same symptoms.
The story starts out rather slow but picks up speed after some time and gets really fast moving towards the end. The author was a doctor herself and surely knows what she is writing about but from time to time there is an overload of medical expressions which might be interesting to people who actually did study medicine, but not to others. Neither are these special terms a necessary part of the story, so if you don't understand them, simply skip them. And if you are the type of person who can't close an eye after seeing a mild horror movie, you should keep your fingers off this book. It is not horror, but in my opinion it is neither for the fragile.
