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Immortality has received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly as well as high praise from many other book review publications. Immortality was a #1 best-selling techno-thriller on Amazon from January 2008 to June 2014.
Publisher's Weekly starred review: When human extinctions occur in South America and spread worldwide, paleobiologist and genetic researcher Mark Freedm ...more
Publisher's Weekly starred review: When human extinctions occur in South America and spread worldwide, paleobiologist and genetic researcher Mark Freedm ...more
Paperback, 516 pages
Published
March 1st 2007
by Kevin Bohacz
(first published January 1st 2007)
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This is not the book that I thought it would be, but that's pretty much my own fault. I like to start a novel with a clean slate of expectations, so I don't read flyleafs or back covers or reviews or basically anything that will potentially spoil the joy of discovery for me. I just pick it up and start reading, and if the first page grabs me then there is a good chance that I will buy it.
Based on the first page and the cover, I thought I was in for a man-merging-wth-machine singularity kind of e ...more
Based on the first page and the cover, I thought I was in for a man-merging-wth-machine singularity kind of e ...more
Starts well then it gets boring
This book doesn’t have an original premise but it was promising. The first act starts well, mostly action packed. The author brings more characters, the military, other researchers and then no development. Long and repetitive situations (like a few attempts of rape). One is enough, two don’t serve a purpose.
I finished just to complete the book. It got boring and very predictable.
This book doesn’t have an original premise but it was promising. The first act starts well, mostly action packed. The author brings more characters, the military, other researchers and then no development. Long and repetitive situations (like a few attempts of rape). One is enough, two don’t serve a purpose.
I finished just to complete the book. It got boring and very predictable.
This book was sent to me from Audible.com for a review of the story, the narrator and the overall audiobook experience. First let me say that I was shocked the audiobook was 24 hours long. Holly cow! That is a chunky book!
Immortality is the epic story of the days and weeks leading up to the end of known humanity and the beginning of the end of our modern day civilization. Once people start noticing the unusual death zones around the world Mark Freedman, a famous paleontologist, is called to th ...more
Immortality is the epic story of the days and weeks leading up to the end of known humanity and the beginning of the end of our modern day civilization. Once people start noticing the unusual death zones around the world Mark Freedman, a famous paleontologist, is called to th ...more
OMG!! This book was awesome....
I stole this review from amazon:
Deep in the Amazon, within specifically precise boundaries, humans drop dead within seconds, leaving behind animals and plant life. The areas are circular, and become known as "kill zones". Little notice is taken until a kill zone strikes in Anchorage Alaska ... American soil.
Dr. Kathy Morrison, a CDC doctor in their BVMC (Bacterial and Viral Maximum Containment) lab is assigned to study the kill zones. Are they chemical or biologic ...more
I stole this review from amazon:
Deep in the Amazon, within specifically precise boundaries, humans drop dead within seconds, leaving behind animals and plant life. The areas are circular, and become known as "kill zones". Little notice is taken until a kill zone strikes in Anchorage Alaska ... American soil.
Dr. Kathy Morrison, a CDC doctor in their BVMC (Bacterial and Viral Maximum Containment) lab is assigned to study the kill zones. Are they chemical or biologic ...more
I came very close to abandoning this book in the first 1/8 of it. I am extremely glad I did not but all my frustration with poor writing and character-development and general unnecessary verbiage continued to be justified. Thankfully I was able to force my brain to adjust and read lightly when indicated. This was a large and incredibly complex premise with a lot of fascinating science driving it. It is larger than the skills of the author. Had this book been co-written with an actual skilled wri
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This book was a great read and a little scary....because this is something that could happen.
I was a little confused by the technical/medical jargon but Googling it cleared it right up.
The religious ascpect of the book (ie the godheads) were a little too much in places but once you got into reading it, it totally made sense.
I also liked the sci-fi part of the book.
I gave this book a 5 star review on Shelfari. Would I recommend it to friends? Yes, but only if they liked this type of book.
I was a little confused by the technical/medical jargon but Googling it cleared it right up.
The religious ascpect of the book (ie the godheads) were a little too much in places but once you got into reading it, it totally made sense.
I also liked the sci-fi part of the book.
I gave this book a 5 star review on Shelfari. Would I recommend it to friends? Yes, but only if they liked this type of book.
A more sweeping scope than many dystopians. This one in spirit is much closer to The Stand than The Road. Add in a healthy dollop of Michael Crighton and you get the idea. The nanotechnology was cool, the mystery of what was going on was well played out. Could benefit from cutting this down by 20%.
So many pages and no satisfaction.
I agree with other reviewers that the author lacked the chops to pull this off as the masterwork that it could have been.
The good: its concepts are brilliant, it has a Michael Crichton level of technicality (something I love), it keeps the reader guessing and is not predictable
The bad: many of the primary characters are unlikable and unrelatable, some of the passages bog down in boring repetition, some of the action is gratuitous instead of gripping
I nearly gave up at a few points, but the journ ...more
The good: its concepts are brilliant, it has a Michael Crichton level of technicality (something I love), it keeps the reader guessing and is not predictable
The bad: many of the primary characters are unlikable and unrelatable, some of the passages bog down in boring repetition, some of the action is gratuitous instead of gripping
I nearly gave up at a few points, but the journ ...more
Immortality Review
The story was interesting enough to keep me reading but must confess to skipping over a number of places where the detail (to me) went on far too long which caused me to begin losing attention.
The story was interesting enough to keep me reading but must confess to skipping over a number of places where the detail (to me) went on far too long which caused me to begin losing attention.
I had high hopes for this book, but after only 43% read I couldn't be bothered with it. I was skipping large sections of narrative, that simple repeated the previous pages. Perhaps it wasn't for me.
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Interesting premise, but it shouldn't be the end.
Okay, we know this is sort of a pre-apocalyptic, and apocalypse type novel. People die, anarchy breaks out. But I don't understand why it should in some respects. Why? Well over seventy percent of America's populace is killed off. That means thirty percent is left. That's millions of people. If our population is over 300 million, that's around 90 million survivors. Ninety million. And what was our population in the 1800s? You see what I'm getting ...more
Okay, we know this is sort of a pre-apocalyptic, and apocalypse type novel. People die, anarchy breaks out. But I don't understand why it should in some respects. Why? Well over seventy percent of America's populace is killed off. That means thirty percent is left. That's millions of people. If our population is over 300 million, that's around 90 million survivors. Ninety million. And what was our population in the 1800s? You see what I'm getting ...more
I got this book as a Kindle loan from a friend. It has two rather distinct feels to it, the first half I'd give 5*s to, the 2nd 3*s. (I try to keep my reviews vague, but as with any review there may be some spoilers)
The first half was great. It grabbed me like a Roland Emmerich movie, watching as imminent disaster approached humanity while snacking away on my popcorn. You jump around, meeting people in various places, and the set up is pretty solid. There's mystery and a (metaphorical) ticking c ...more
The first half was great. It grabbed me like a Roland Emmerich movie, watching as imminent disaster approached humanity while snacking away on my popcorn. You jump around, meeting people in various places, and the set up is pretty solid. There's mystery and a (metaphorical) ticking c ...more
REVIEW
The story begins in the South American Amazon rain forest. Here we have the setting of an illegal tree cutting. There is a strange zone that forms. Humans are dropping like flies. These zones are known as the "kill zones".No one pays any attention until "the zone" hits Anchorage, Alaska, American territory. The Centers for Disease Control is working hard, analyzing the "kill zones". They are trying to find out if they are chemical or biological. They are also working on a way to discover w ...more
The story begins in the South American Amazon rain forest. Here we have the setting of an illegal tree cutting. There is a strange zone that forms. Humans are dropping like flies. These zones are known as the "kill zones".No one pays any attention until "the zone" hits Anchorage, Alaska, American territory. The Centers for Disease Control is working hard, analyzing the "kill zones". They are trying to find out if they are chemical or biological. They are also working on a way to discover w ...more
From My Newsletter Number 89:
This review is on Immortality by Kevin Bohacz. It is the first book I have read by this author. It was first released in 2003 and again in 2007 and 2011. The ebook eighth edition was released in 2013. It is a long read for the price at 525 pages.
The story starts out in the Amazon Rain Forest. A man was working clearing the forest when something dreadful happens. The story moves to New Jersey where a woman is having a nightmare about something evil causing people to ...more
This review is on Immortality by Kevin Bohacz. It is the first book I have read by this author. It was first released in 2003 and again in 2007 and 2011. The ebook eighth edition was released in 2013. It is a long read for the price at 525 pages.
The story starts out in the Amazon Rain Forest. A man was working clearing the forest when something dreadful happens. The story moves to New Jersey where a woman is having a nightmare about something evil causing people to ...more
This highly imaginative technothriller blends elements of McCarthy's The Road and Crichton's Prey. Of course, in Bohacz's novel, the apocalyptic elements evolve over the course of the narrative, and the nanotechnology threat that Crichton uses so well in Prey is, in Bohacz's world, something left over, implanted by beings who populated the planet long before we crawled out of our primordial slime.
The story begins with a group of localized deaths in the Amazon. The circumscribed nature of the dea ...more
The story begins with a group of localized deaths in the Amazon. The circumscribed nature of the dea ...more
Kevin Bohacz in his new book, “Immortality” published by CPrompt brings us into the life of Dr. Kathy Morrison.
From the back cover: Without warning, something has gone terribly awry. In the remote and unnoticed places of the world, small pockets of death begin occurring. As the initially isolated extinctions spread, the world’s eyes focus on this unimaginable horror and chaos. Out of the ecological imbalance, something new and extraordinary is evolving and surviving to fill the voids left by the ...more
From the back cover: Without warning, something has gone terribly awry. In the remote and unnoticed places of the world, small pockets of death begin occurring. As the initially isolated extinctions spread, the world’s eyes focus on this unimaginable horror and chaos. Out of the ecological imbalance, something new and extraordinary is evolving and surviving to fill the voids left by the ...more
Starts off in one direction and ends up somewhere along the lines of "The Stand". Don't get me wrong - that's a good place to end up! If you're a 'hard science' kind of sci-fi fan, the first 2/3's should prove fairly satisfying. To be fair, even in the beginning there's a hint of where the book is going and it's not like the author keeps it a secret.
Sorry to be so vague, but my task as a reviewer is not to give away plotlines or spoil surprises. And I don't usually discuss the plot itself. If th ...more
Sorry to be so vague, but my task as a reviewer is not to give away plotlines or spoil surprises. And I don't usually discuss the plot itself. If th ...more
The description of this book had me intrigued. Unfortunately the topic I was interested in only manifested during the last 20% of the book. The beginning starts off fairly good with a science thriller investigation into the genesis of a new 'plague' that is very curious indeed. The book then switches back and forth between the interesting parts about the scientists investigating this 'plague' and two supplemental characters, a female police officer in New Jersey, and a married couple in New York
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This was a fairly interesting end-of-the-world hard sf novel, with good characterizations, well thought-out plot line, a small but adequate amount of action, and not too cliche'. Bohacz managed to keep it fairly believable, and worked hard at maintaining your trust in the science. My biggest complaint -- not a very big one, really -- is the title of the novel. While immortality was hinted at, it was never part of the story. To make the finale work, he had to take a well-developed character and f
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This book was AMAZING! I was not sure what to expect, but was blown away. The book has a Stephen King/Michael Crichton feel to it. Kevin provides us with a well written story with a great plot, interesting characters that are well developed and alot of suspense. I enjoyed the doomsday/apocalyptic tales and Bohacz delivers, coupled with a wide range of well developed characters with alot of depth to them made this book brilliant.What I loved the most about this book was the realism.Yes, there is
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Aug 05, 2008
Rose
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Recommended to Rose by:
Amazon
Shelves:
dystopian-speculative-fiction,
science-fiction
I really enjoyed this book. It was like a science fiction version of Stephen King's The Stand. The characters are pretty well drawn and the read is compelling and fast-paced. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5, have to do with 2 things. I think the ending could have been cleaner. I thought the ending didn't clear up as many of the questions that I had going through the story and little bit rushed there at the end with shoddy explanations. Also, the characters were very interesting with exceptio
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Jul 06, 2013
Manoj
added it
A little too drawn out, repetitive, predictable and didn't really flow well. The premise was good but the way it could've used better presentation and plot lines. The pseudo-philosophical undertones notwithstanding, what irked me most was how almost all major sub plots were dead ends, forcibly placed in the story just to create a sense of suspense but leading nowhere. And don't even get me started on the plot holes!! What interested me much more than the characters and the plot lines was the int
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The plot of "Immortality" is very interesting. A god-machine that has inhibited the world for at least 200 million years is using nanotechnology within a simple and age-old bacterium to kill the majority of the world's population to bring along a new stage in human development. A Nobel Prize winner and a CDC doctor are the ones that discover what is going on. The Nobel Prize winner and a female cop have the genetic predisposition and the willpower to connect to the god-machine and their brains b
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Sep 16, 2008
Corine Schramke
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Recommended to Corine by:
Amazon
This is a science fiction mystery/thriller. A plague is striking various areas of the earth. Is it a new disease? A new biological weapon? Or something else? The story is follows a Nobel winning scientist, a researcher with the CDC, and a couple civilians who become central to the storyline.
The story was well told, up to the climax. The characters weren't as fully developed as they could have been, and we live with some characters who start to develop, and then become secondary to the story, whi ...more
The story was well told, up to the climax. The characters weren't as fully developed as they could have been, and we live with some characters who start to develop, and then become secondary to the story, whi ...more
This is a science fiction novel of a doomsday scenario that will leave you shaken. Only after having finished this book was I able to see a lot of similarities to Biblical stories which made it even more frightening if possible--and in some ways more believable. I certainly hope this NEVER happens!!
The last sentence of the book has me sad on a couple of levels for the human race-- and very curious
"So much misguided fear," said Mark. "Funny how everything can change and still nothing's different. ...more
The last sentence of the book has me sad on a couple of levels for the human race-- and very curious
"So much misguided fear," said Mark. "Funny how everything can change and still nothing's different. ...more
I really didn't enjoy this book, which was too bad because I normally like these type of books. Andromeda Strain and the Stand come to mind. I kept hoping this one would turn around, but the whole thing ended up being a disappointment. My biggest issue was that I just couldn't get behind the characters. They were just not relatable in any way. Even with the world ending, I never really felt any pressure on them. Plus, there was just no one I was rooting for. Normally I don't post such negative r
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There were enough interesting concepts to keep me reading but there were times when the writing itself was quite annoying to me. It got better as it went along - or, maybe I just got used to it. ;) What was annoying was the way the writing tried to explain every motivation, every action, every relationship in a way which seemed quite awkward. Writing about concepts is more what this guy is good at, I think - writing about people and their inner thoughts is his weak point, IMHO. He also seemed to
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This is an extraordinary read. I got it for my kindle for 99 cents, but if I'd known how good it was, I would have gladly paid full price.
A word of warning, however. This book is thick, and while I also mean long, I really mean heavy in content. There is microbiology, paleontology, nanotechnology, psychology, anthropology, medicine, and probably several other disciplines that I'm forgetting to add. The book takes a long time to get going, but once it fires up, the fires don't go out.
The book lef ...more
A word of warning, however. This book is thick, and while I also mean long, I really mean heavy in content. There is microbiology, paleontology, nanotechnology, psychology, anthropology, medicine, and probably several other disciplines that I'm forgetting to add. The book takes a long time to get going, but once it fires up, the fires don't go out.
The book lef ...more
Silly book
I stopped reading this silly book only 5% into it. I'm sorry I invested that time and effort. I wish I could get my money back like at WalMart or Target. Instead of proceeding with his story, the author spends most of his time on environmental ideological rants against the typical leftist enemies of mankind -- big businesses and landowners. Typical late-sixties misguied hippy activism. I'm sixty-seven years old -- I've been there, done that, and eventually grew up. I don't need to rel ...more
I stopped reading this silly book only 5% into it. I'm sorry I invested that time and effort. I wish I could get my money back like at WalMart or Target. Instead of proceeding with his story, the author spends most of his time on environmental ideological rants against the typical leftist enemies of mankind -- big businesses and landowners. Typical late-sixties misguied hippy activism. I'm sixty-seven years old -- I've been there, done that, and eventually grew up. I don't need to rel ...more
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“The warriors of our country, thought Mark, the protectors of our moral decline—so innocent and so lethal. They would go where they were told and do whatever was asked of them. Too bad the morality of the world’s leaders was not worthy of the trust and sacrifice of these young men and women. Too many leaders were obsessed with gaining power and money. So much energy was squandered inventing better ways of slaughtering each other just to steal the other’s shiny beads and women and oil. What had mankind given the world? Hydrogen bombs, exotic chemical agents, and anthrax letters... Humanity was a mess! We kill off a new species every day and replace their habitat with life sustaining concrete. Perhaps we had indeed earned our well-deserved extinction. The”
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