Cloning can be an exciting concept not only for scientists but also for writers.
Follett explores the possibility of eight clones each of whom has an eccentricity of a very serious nature. One is a rapist, one a conman, one a sadist and yet another is a normal young man.
Caught in the lives of these eight men is a young Professor researching twins to find if it is ‘nurture or nature’ that shapes the lives of such twins. She unearths a plot to draw her into a web of deceit and corruption by the University president and the trust that funds the university. How she clears the names of one of the eight and her own is what Follett has attempted in a story that keeps you reading with intense interest one moment and dozing off another.
The book was a good sedative for me. You know, that intense sense of participation in the story by the reader is missing. Yet, it has its own graces – the revelation of the sense of fear and shame in a rapist’s victim and the unscrupulous world of academics, scientists and trusts in creating monsters of science without a tinge of conscience.
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Read the works of the following authors also if you have not read them already. Edgar Wallace, Agatha Christie, Alexander Dumas( his Count of Monte Cristo is outstanding. I still enjoy reading it; it is freely available online), Dick Francis, Fredrick Forsythe( Day of the Jackal). I will try to recall some more interesting novels and let you know later on. Never realised you had interest in novels.
If you start a blog on English movies, I might have lot more comments
Oh yes, I do love Alexander Dumas...I remember reading it to my children at school and enthralling them. I enjoy Forsyth too...Dick Francis however, I find a little strained in his writing...the nerve wracking excitement, I am afraid, I miss in his writing.
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