Chromosome 6 first blog

I started a new book and it's called Chromosome 6. I started this book a year or so ago and I didn't really understand it and so since i fiished 11/22/63 I needed a new book so I started again and it seems more interesting than it did the first time. I think a main reason I was able to understand it better than I could have a year ago is that it deals in the partial chemistry and genetics that we lightly touched on in the 8th grade. Basically the main idea of the story is that a pharmecuetical company is genetically altering a type of primate similar to chimpanzees and rich people can buy one to match them so they can have any transplant they need and don't need to take anti-rejection pills for the rest of their lives but the moral issue is that the guy who actually did this to the monkeys thinks that some of them were altered enough to become basically our caveman anscestors. He thinks that because he has seen smoke repeatedly coming from the same place on the island where the monkeys are kept and no person is allowed on the island. I think that the author, Robin Cook, has done a pretty good job of characterization because you actually are kind of inside each of the characters' heads and know where they stand to gain from everything that happens and also what they risk to lose. I thought that was pretty interesting and another weird thing that seems very disconnected from the main plotline is this side story about these people who live in New York and work in a morgue where a mobster just got killed and his body was taken from the morgue without anyone knowing. I think that the stories will probably entwine eventually, but right now it's kind of confusing to the reader.