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Title: Mind Catcher

Author: John Darnton

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-08

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Together, they will produce a result beyond anything they could have conceived, sending Tyler far beyond the frontiers of medical science into an astonishing netherworld of man and machine - a place no living person has gone before and from which one desperate person will try to bring him back....

Members Reviews:

Disappointed with chararcter of Scott, Tyler's dad.

I'm halfway through the book but I am so disappointed with the character of Scott that I wanted to come here and see what other people thought of the book.

Scott does not know everything that we, the reader knows, and yet he wants to stop the experimental procedure that may save his son's life. He has no idea what recovery his son may or may not make but the possibility is there that he may become a functioning human being again. This, however, is not good enough for Scott. He admits he is afraid of not recognizing his son, "the person he once was is gone". Well, that's a little self-serving. We, the reader, know that Sarmaggio is out for personal gain but Scott is just assuming this, he has nothing to base this on. He knows nothing about Cleaver's experiments. I keep thinking "what exactly does Scott know at this point" and what I come up with is that he knows his son suffered a horrible accident and that his brain is damaged. He also knows that many areas of the brain are functioning normally and he knows that there is an experimental procedure that may restore even more function to his son's brain. And yet, he resents the machines that are keeping his son alive. I just don't see his point of view. I can only understand his point of view when I look at it from the reader's viewpoint....but that is NOT Scott's viewpoint. He is not privy to all the information that the reader is. I keep thinking, if this were my son and I was offered this opportunity, I'd take it. Yes, that's my opinion and I would be more open to Scott's opinion if there were some reasoning for it. There's not. Scott is afraid his son may not recover enough to care for himself and yes, that is a possibility but there's also the possibility that he may make a recovery. Scott doesn't even know the odds, the doctors don't know the odds, I can't see any father not taking the chance even if he knew that the odds were stacked against him. I'd want that chance for my kid.

Oh, and what was this ... about the doctor that Kate went to talk to, the one who said how many people died while they were doing the first heart operations. What exactly was his point? Was he saying that research shouldn't be done because you may not be able to save the patient? That reasoning didn't make any sense to me. The patients would've died without the experimental surgery and if they died during it then that's a tragedy but I'm sure something was learned from it. Look how many heart operations are done now, obviously the research was worth it. He seemed to be saying that this type of research is detrimental to the patient. I just don't share that viewpoint and I don't believe many surgeons would agree with that either.

Fatally flawed for me.

Darnton is a good writer and explores interesting ideas in his novels, but MindCatcher is a fatally flawed story for me, praise from the NYTimes book reviewer notwithstanding.