My first psychological thriller/page turner, I could barely sleep while and shortly after reading! ( )

Terrifying concept portrayed with realistic commercial intent.
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Eran 'intervenciones menores', operaciones de rutina de las que se hacían diariamente en el gran hospital de Bostón. Pero algunos pacientes, demasiados, no despertaban. Quedaban en coma en la mesa de operaciones, víctimas de inexplicables accidentes. Hasta que una joven practicante de medicina decidió averiguar qué había detrás de tales coincidencias...

“She thought about how marvelous is would be to have a wife keeping the house in order, the meals on the table. At the same time it seemed ridiculously unfair that she could never have a wife. In fact, if she married, she would be expected to be the wife.”
― Robin Cook, Coma

This is the only medical thriller I have ever read that I actually moderately liked. I am not usually a reader of this Genre although I did try to be quite awhile ago and discovered it really is not for me.

However I did a reread of Coma not all that long ago and was surprised that 1) it has held up well through the years. And 2) it still has the power to scare me. It was so original when it came out and creepy as anything.

SPOILERS:

My two quibbles with it are:

It was overly long and kind of dry as far as how it is written so I did some skimming toward the middle and:

2) The ending. Way to short and abrupt. We go through so much with Susan and I really wanted more at the end. I thought that then and I still feel that n ow rereading it. It is implied she lives but man..after the wild ride the reader is taken through, the book is wrapped up way to quickly. I really wanted more at the end.

So I will most likely not be reading another medical thriller that I can see but Coma remains a good thriller, so original for its time period and genuinely scary. The movie was not bad either. ( )

This book sprung to mind as one I read back in the 80s. It was a good medical thriller that entertained me for a few days, as I remember. The fact that I didn't remember it until another medical thriller jared lose the memory indicates to me that it wasn't one of the best books I've read. Then, of course, I'm more inclined to eco-lit. ( )