I still have no idea what the plot was about.. If someone has read this book, please enlighten me.

Yeesh. First Robin Cook novel, and I was left underwhelmed. Was hard to follow at points, characters would show up then never reappear. Characters were cardboard cutouts, didn’t really care that much. Sometimes got a little too descriptive to the point where I wasn’t even sure what the hell was happening. Plus, he would frequently change how he referred to characters throughout the book, and because they weren’t well established (and all talked the same), it became difficult to tell who was who. I.e., would call a character by their first name, then switch mid paragraph to their last name, before switching back to the first for a sentence, then back and forth and just...yeah. Rookie mistake. Anyway, I want to try one or two more of his books, and see if maybe the subject matter interests me a little more (because he definitely knew his shit, and I like technical details)

I LOVE THIS, it was so different from everything I ever read.. I can feel the fear of the patients and I love it. Everyone should read this

Robin Cook, you won a place on my heart

or... in my brain

Good ol' medical thriller.

3,5/5

Tiene una muy intrigante trama que nos mantiene al vilo durante todo el libro. A pesar de eso, muchas de los problemas que le surgen al protagonista son resultas de maneras demasiado irreales. La temática que da nombre al libro se evidencia a lo largo de toda la novela y nos lleva a hacernos preguntas sobre ética y la tarea que los médicos realizan en los hospitales.

This was a fairly quick read. Cook's books always make me wonder how possible these medical scenarios are.

One of the best Robin Cook novels. Little bit dated now yet the premise is still valid.

Ridiculous and fun. I wish all of Cook's novels were this whacked out and macabre. It's no "Coma", but it has the same outlandish thrills as "Mindbend" and "Shock", which is fine by me. I don't expect great literature from Dr. Cook; hell, I don't even expect great storytelling. But "Brain" has just the right amount of B-movie silliness to keep the pages turning. And, since the book was released in the early 80s, a lot of it is hilariously outdated (which, obviously, adds to the fun).

I'm trying so hard to remember what happened in this book.

Robin Cook returns to the medical thriller format in his fourth outing, "Brain".

When Dr. Martin Phillips notices some strange goings-on around the New York hospital he works in, he begins to look into it. When researching a young lady who died unexpectedly during surgery, he discovers that her brain has been removed. And that's only scratching the surface...

While I enoyed this book for periods of thrilling action sequences, strange discoveries, and the conspiracy element that emerges in the plot, I've gotta say that at times, it just felt like a rewrite of Robin Cook's first medical thriller, "Coma". Both sort of dragged a little at the beginning, but made up for it a bit with a big payback at the end. "Brain" got started so slow that it took some eighty pages for Cook to establish (at least to get across to me, anyway) who the protagonist was.

Being that I've decided to read through Cook's novels in chronological order (in conjunction with some other things), I'm glad he's made a return to the medical thriller here. Still though, he's yet to absolutely astound me...