THE HOT ZONE (Richard Preston) - May 15/10

Oh, god. What an excruciating nightmare this book was. While I was reading it, I couldn't help but think that it felt like a five page article that had been tortuously expanded to over 400 (!) pages - and, as it turns out, that's exactly what Preston did. There are certainly a few interesting things here, but my god, I can't recall another book that so blatantly felt like the author was just treading water from start to finish. What a colossal bore. * out of ****