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The Burning Road (Mass Market Paperback)

de Ann Benson (Author)
3.8étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (27 évaluations de client)
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Readers of Ann Benson's bestselling The Plague Tales will bond immediately with this sequel and its unusual blend of historical romance and futuristic medical thriller. The book begins in 14th-century France--a country ravished by a war with the English, and also suffering from the deadly effects of the plague. A Spanish-Jewish physician named Alejandro Canches searches for a cure; he scribes a medical manuscript along the way.

The Burning Road then moves to a town in Massachusetts in the year 2007, where another Doctor, Janie Crowe is fighting her own battle to cure sickness and disease. She looks to Canches's manuscript, his "Book of Cures," for clues.

Benson skillfully shows us the small details of everyday life and the events that both connect and separate these two doctors as they struggle with medical and personal problems. Canches seems to have isolated the cause of the bubonic plague, but his work is interrupted by battles with French troops and by worries about the safety of his foster daughter Kate (who is the illegitimate daughter of England's King Edward III). Meanwhile, Dr. Crowe is on the verge of a major breakthrough with a terrible genetic disease that afflicts Jewish boys.

The alchemy and magic may not be for every taste, but by linking her two physicians through 600 years of what passes for progress, Benson gives her strange hybrid a uniquely gripping aura. --Dick Adler --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.

From Publishers Weekly

Boldly conceived as two parallel fictional journeys separated by 650 years and linked by an ancient, mysterious manuscript promising miraculous cures, Benson's sequel to The Plague Tales aims to please historical romance readers as well as futuristic thrill-seekers, but suffers from this risky hybridization. The love story set in the 14th century fares best. While crypto-Jewish physician Alejandro Canches becomes involved in a peasants' revolt in France during the savage Hundred Years' War, his foster daughter Kate, illegitimate child of England's Edward III, falls in love with rebel leader Guillaume Karle. In Benson's less successful alternative tale, a medico-techno-thriller, Janie Crowe is a brilliant neurologist discredited in the aftermath of DR SAM, the incurable staph infection that recently ravaged the world and now, in 2007, is recurring. Crowe seeks a genetic cure for an eerie disease afflicting Jewish boys while juggling romance with two hunky-but-sensitive suitors. Linked to Alejandro by his book of cures, which has recently come into her hands, 40-ish Janie "smirks" and "snickers" at the wisdom found there; her disdain renders the uneasily intertwined plots of mystic healing and medical science implausible. Benson's medieval tale and its colorful characters, like a boyish Geoffrey Chaucer, are far more intriguingly drawn than her watered-down 21st-century cynics. But even the narrative set in ancient times flourishes its own unpersuasive details, such as an impossibly glorified earth-mother pregnancy and inconsistent dialogue. Perhaps these two stories would have been more successful as separate vehicles. Author tour.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 A good book, but..., Mars 16 2004
Par Un client
Really just agreeing with others that (1) it would be difficult to read this book without having read the Plague Tales (although that could easily have been fixed, because most of the Plague Tales is not really relevant to this book), and there are HUGE omissions toward the end. Ok, it's a setup for a sequel, but it's just really annoying. <don't read this bit if you haven't read the book> What happened with Bruce? What is the story with Kristina? How on earth can Janie be pregnant when she was sterile in the first book, or did I miss some actual explanation for this? I like this book, and all of the Ann Benson books, but the others didn't leave me screaming with irritation because there were huge gaps.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 An incredible and all too possible tale., Déc 22 2002
Par K. L Sadler (Freedom, Pa. USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I find it slightly humorous that within a short period of time, say a month, I read The Killers Within which is about the rise of bacteria that are resistant to all antibiotics, read another book about the world created by the Black Plague in the 14th century (which was awful, but gave a basic understanding of life during that time), and then just accidently picked up this book without realizing that it was going to be a fictional work tieing the information of the two above books together.

I didn't read the first book in this series, called The Plague Tales. I may well go back and get it so I can see where it started. From the understanding that archeological digs can occasionally release things that have lain dormant for centuries, it is easy to believe that in our quest for knowledge, we release things that would have been better left undisturbed.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The writing was more than adequate, and the plot made significant 'sense' to me. There was enough background provided in flashbacks and other hints to what had happened to bring out the original plague. I belong to a bioethical/disability group that seeks to prevent new genetic technologies being used to discriminate against those with disabilities and differences. So the concern for a large database containing all of our genetic information is extremely valid right now. Since a recent expedition occurred in which attempts were made to find frozen DNA of the original Spanish flu of 1918 (that killed one of my great grandmothers), and many fears were expressed then that the world could once again be exposed to a bacterial killer for which we have no vaccine or antibiothic. As once said by Michael Crichton in one of his books, 'scientists are too often proving they can do something, and they forget to ask whether they should do something!'
This includes cloning of humans who will most often come out with severe disabilities, the ever present threat of assisted suicide/euthanasia for those considered unworthy of life, genetic manipulation of food crops without research into whether those genetic manipulations will have long-term consequences for environmental impact or human consumption.

This is definitely one of those books you cannot put down. A lot of research went into this particular piece of fiction. It is not far enough in the future to qualify as science fiction, and there are several plots to keep separate...one historical that has a direct impact on the plot based in the future. I will not waste times on books from authors who I think are unwilling to do the research, to understand the basic sciences behind this type of horrifying scenario. I would find it hard to place this book in any specific genre...what's important is that it is a great read.

Karen Sadler,
University of Pittsburgh

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2.0étoiles sur 5 Not everyone has read The Plague Tales..., Nov. 14 2002
Par Un client
I got the feeling from this book that someone (Ms Benson's editor?) thought the book was too long, and removed parts that didn't directly affect the storyline. The result is that there are pieces of information that are missing, which leaves the reader feeling confused and dissatisfied. Most of these omissions have to do with the 2007 narrative - there's no explanation of why Janie was in England and how she found the journal that ties the 2 stories together. Or of what disease her assistant had, which Janie cured, and somehow affected the outcome of the story. Or exactly what the significance is of Kristina's memory lapses, as well as her being one of "the first" to not be included in the database.
Since I didn't read the prequel, I don't know if these things were addressed there or not. However, even if they were, not everyone reads books in a series in the order in which they were written. Because of this, most authors of a series "recap" major information about characters and setting from novel to novel.
However, if you're not a person who wants all parts of a story to "fit together", if you like historical novels, this might be a book you'd enjoy since the storyline that is set 600 years ago is very compelling.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 a page-turner on its own
I just had to respond to another reviewer's warning that this book is a sequel that does not stand on its own. Read more
Publié le Aoû 1 2002 par gradstudent-flatbroke

3.0étoiles sur 5 Compelling but it doesn't stand on its own
A word of warning to anyone who might pick up this book - this is a sequel, a fact not acknowledged on the cover, or for that matter anywhere at all on the book. Read more
Publié le Jui 28 2002 par J. Hilles

5.0étoiles sur 5 A Great Sequel!! When Do We Get Another Installment?!?
What a sequel! I stumbled onto "The Plague Tales" by accident and was immediately hooked by all of the characters, especially Alejandro, who is one of the most genuinely human... Read more
Publié le Fév 3 2002 par North Carolina Reader

3.0étoiles sur 5 An interesting, thought-provoking well-written book !!!
The Burning Road by Anne Benson is an extremely interesting and exciting novel. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel after having read its predecessor. Read more
Publié le Oct. 11 2001 par Paul Chastant

4.0étoiles sur 5 Leaves me wanting more!
I read The Plague Tales because of its medieval theme. While I enjoyed that book I mainly bought The Burning Road due to a feeling of wanting to at least finish the series as it... Read more
Publié le Mai 12 2001

4.0étoiles sur 5 my review
This story is about a man in the middle ages who tries to learn and understand medicine and nature, while being persecuted for his beliefs. Read more
Publié le Avril 30 2001 par Ana Maria Barrenechea

3.0étoiles sur 5 Readable fluff
Burning Road is a readable page-turner, which is the best that can be said about it. The twin plotlines intersect poorly, with several highly unbelievable contrivances. Read more
Publié le Fév 9 2001 par Chris

5.0étoiles sur 5 Ann Benson Does It Again!
Ann Benson has written another intriguing book. In continuing the story lines that began in The Plague Tales, the author has given the reader another dose of adventure in the... Read more
Publié le Nov. 8 2000 par Michael Butts

5.0étoiles sur 5 Sleepless Night
I spent a sleepless night with The Burning Road. I loved the tale and found the Subject`s so interesting that a f/u must be coming soon. Read more
Publié le Aoû 29 2000

2.0étoiles sur 5 Perhaps I'm Not Imaginative Enough....
I felt enormouly frustrated at the end of this book, which is unfortunate as I had enjoyed it until then. I wanted Ms. Read more
Publié le Aoû 23 2000

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