Book Review:
Abduction
By Robin Cook
Genre: Fiction... maybe sciency fiction...

For years, people have been telling me, “You’ve got to read Robin Cook!”

So when I found this book on one of the shelves in the Student Lounge at ILE (Instituto de Lenguaje Español) I expected to find myself in the midst of a sort of ER meets 24 (TV shows for those of you who don’t know) sort of story line. Boy was I wrong. I have a tendency to pick up books that are an authors “experimental foray” into a new genre.

Abduction begins like any novel I’ve read in the last few years, outlining the main character’s strengths and flaws and then introducing the female that is assumed will become the love interest of the main character. Something which in retrospect I realize did not occur.

Without giving to much away, the book starts out with the characters drilling into a huge underwater mountain in the Atlantic Ocean in search for fossil records and other geological stuff that I couldn’t care less about, but takes a very unexpected turn when 5 characters are “abducted” to a civilization that exists under the crust of the earth and has done so for millions and millions of years. As the 5 adjust to the seemingly utopian confines of this new culture they must decide, do they attempt to assimilate into their new surroundings or attempt an impossible escape. The book ends with a twist that leaves you dissatisfied, but in a good way… That make sense?

Things the book makes you think about:

• Culture Shock
• The destiny if a society lacking morals
• Genetic engineering
• Accepting a reality that is different then your own “constructed” beliefs
• The violent history and current existence of mankind
  

Overall rating(out of 5):

(Why this icon? Because Satchel is the star of Get Fuzzy, my favorite comic strip… I read it every day)

0 Satchel: Um... didn't read it
1 Satchel: What a waste of trees
2 Satchels: The author maybe wanted to write a good book, but it just didn't happen.
3 Satchels: Thought provoking and possibly even mildly entertaining
4 Satchels: Great book!
5 Satchels: Intsant Favorite!!!