This book was by ken Follett. I have read a few of his books and they were pretty good. I let Jim pick it because I was having such a hard time getting back into reading. I just seemed like everything sucked! It was pretty good, though.
It was about a young scientist who was doing research on identical twins raised apart. The age-old nature versus nurture question. She develops a search engine that can track them based on their medical history. Dental records, echos, thumbprints, etc. She finds a set of twins that meets her criteria. she begins to question them. One an upstanding citizen. The other a criminal.
Turns out she embarks on a journey to get to the bottom of some deep mystery buried under the CIA, Senators and CEOs of genetic research companies. They don't want her to find out their secret. Which is that 23 years ago, back when fertility treatment was an experimental phenomenon, they developed a method to split embryos who had desirable qualities. Basically, neo-nazis dressed up as leaders and contributors to our society. Blech. They split one embryo seven times and implanted eight unsuspecting women with these embryos who were undergoing fertility treatment at one of the facilities involved.
Ms. Super Scientist figures it all out though. They fired her, ruined her reputation and had the life of one of the "good" twins (octuplets) hanging in the balance.
Ooooooh. Then, the plot thickens. She falls in love with the good one and this gives her more ammunition to expose these people. In the end, she does. All the women are compensated and she and the good twin live happily ever after.
It was a good book. Entertaining, but clearly written by a man. I just don't think that the lead figure should be female if the book is written by a schovanistic male as Ken Follett clearly is. The undertone of his writing infuriated me. The way women were portrayed, their desires, etc. was borderline offensive.
I did pick out a quote. "If we're all aggressive, obedient soldiers, who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on antiwar marches?"
I'm looking forward to my next book. The Watchers by Dean Koontz. A friend of a friend said it was sooo good that she was reading it while she was brushing her teeth. Now, THAT'S a good book!
It was about a young scientist who was doing research on identical twins raised apart. The age-old nature versus nurture question. She develops a search engine that can track them based on their medical history. Dental records, echos, thumbprints, etc. She finds a set of twins that meets her criteria. she begins to question them. One an upstanding citizen. The other a criminal.
Turns out she embarks on a journey to get to the bottom of some deep mystery buried under the CIA, Senators and CEOs of genetic research companies. They don't want her to find out their secret. Which is that 23 years ago, back when fertility treatment was an experimental phenomenon, they developed a method to split embryos who had desirable qualities. Basically, neo-nazis dressed up as leaders and contributors to our society. Blech. They split one embryo seven times and implanted eight unsuspecting women with these embryos who were undergoing fertility treatment at one of the facilities involved.
Ms. Super Scientist figures it all out though. They fired her, ruined her reputation and had the life of one of the "good" twins (octuplets) hanging in the balance.
Ooooooh. Then, the plot thickens. She falls in love with the good one and this gives her more ammunition to expose these people. In the end, she does. All the women are compensated and she and the good twin live happily ever after.
It was a good book. Entertaining, but clearly written by a man. I just don't think that the lead figure should be female if the book is written by a schovanistic male as Ken Follett clearly is. The undertone of his writing infuriated me. The way women were portrayed, their desires, etc. was borderline offensive.
I did pick out a quote. "If we're all aggressive, obedient soldiers, who's going to write the poems and play the blues and go on antiwar marches?"
I'm looking forward to my next book. The Watchers by Dean Koontz. A friend of a friend said it was sooo good that she was reading it while she was brushing her teeth. Now, THAT'S a good book!
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