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Summary: Interesting and fun to read
Review: This book was great. I was not very interested in the topic of airplane crashes so I nearly passed on this one. As it turns out, this book is not really about an airplane crash. It is about corporate greed and power. The fact that the problem was with an airplane is really just part of the setting. As usual Crichton gives plenty of details and creates some interesting characters along the way.
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Summary: Another winner
Review: The one thing I have to say about this book. Finish it before you plan on taking your next flight! Or, if you wanna really freak yourself out, start reading it on a transoceanic flight. It was a real page turner..... especially since I read it about a week prior to my first cross ocean trip via air.
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Summary: WOW!!
Review: I read my first Michael Crichton book, Sphere, around 1994. I followed it with Congo, Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. Every single book blew me away. Last fall I read Timeline.. also excellent. Airframe was no exception.I was GLUED to this book. It's written in language anyone can understand. Not too many complicated terms or exotic language twists. I'm not a journalist, or a writer of any sort, so I won't try to summarize the book, but take my word for it... it's a GOOD read!
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Summary: Detail is God in this page turner!
Review: Thanks to the utterly amazing attention to detail, we can all now fly a plane. Crichton tells us how it gets off the ground, tells us the controls and also gives us a guided tour of the very components. This is astounding! One of my most adored Michael Crichton books, and subsequently one his best, I feel, of all his novels. The beauty of this book, though, has to be the almost anticlimactic ending. What am I saying? I will tell... Take all that the book goes through. The investigation, the characters views, the notions behind what 'could' have gone wrong, and see where the reader ends up? That's right, the simple failure of the 'pilot' to leave the controls to the autopilot. How fantastis is that! To be honest, I was fooled all along, expecting some ground breaking discovery, some hideous revelation. But no, not this book. Oh, no! All the suspense, anticipation and all the direction changes in the plot lead to such a simple solution. Brilliant. This is art in itself. Crichton has exelled himself with this book. He makes the obvious seem somehow beyond us, allowing us to blur our vision with so many ideas that we simply forget what we are really supposed to searching for. If you want a book that will take you wherever it decides to go , then grab this quickly.
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Summary: Rides High!
Review: This is a pretty good book. Informative and functional with a good story line. A little bit mystery and suspense, and no mushy love complications. It stands on it's own two feet without the lure of a romantic discord or scenes. Crichton's writing is very developed and gives a realistic scenario that could actually happen. He translates airplane jargon dialogue into something you can understand. He just states what the purpose of it in a short descriptive words and then moves on. No need to add more unnecessary information. He gives you enough information to understand, but not so much you have to skip a couple of pages to get going again. You definitely wouldn't mind reading this book. A different kind of topic enlisted my attention to this book and I enjoyed it greatly.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: The only thing I could think of when I finished this book was who would I cast in the movie, if they made it into a movie. When I first started reading the book I was able to put it down, but as I continued there was no way I could put it down. One night I started reading and finished it the same night, because through everything that was going on I could not stop reading.
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Summary: Lazy "Thriller"
Review: After recently finishing Crichton's brilliant "Timeline," I found "Airframe" to be quite a disappointment, at least as far as imagination and suspense are concerned. One cannnot deny that Mr. Crichton as always has done some remarkable research into what goes into making an airplane safe. The novel opens briskly with a very unusual air disaster, resulting not in a crash, but still three corpses and over fifty injuries. Casey Singleton is a very well drawn character and I found myself involved in her dilemma. The only other characters that I found remotely likeable, however, were her secretary Norma, and her some-time lover Ted. The rest of the characters are merely duplicitous, irritable and just plain nasty. The story takes a long time to develop and little suspense is demonstrated, particularly in the seemingly unnecessary "union scares." All in all, this is not one of Michael's better books, but if you are a frequent flyer, you might want to check it out and see why I love terra firma!
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Summary: More Classic Crichton
Review: Another excellant novel by today's science fiction master. After having read Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, my standards for Crichton's work were pretty high going into this book, but I was not disappointed. While it wasn't as good as Andromeda or Jurassic, it was still a very thought provoking novel that I read pretty much straight through til the end. Even after reading a few Crichton novels, I am still blown away by how much of a genius he is. Given that Michael Crichton has a doctorate in medicine, one would still be hard-pressed to find an author that researches his material as well as he does. Pure genius, very suspenseful novel.
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Summary: Make it into a movie...
Review: It's got strong characters, great plot, many twists, hidden motives and a lot of knowledge. If this book isn't already in the works to become a major motion picture, it should. Full of thrills and suspense. It will keep you guessing and literally prevent you from putting it down once you start it. Another Crichton classic!
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Summary: wow
Review: When reading a Cricton book I am almost certain to enjoy the reading, and I wasn't let down. If you are looking ror a great novel with a lot of suspense and we keep you turning page after page, I recomend this novel.If you are a first time reader I also recomend Sphere, another great novel by Cricton.
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