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Summary: Excellent writing, too much adultery
Review: I saw the tail end of the movie a couple years ago. I'm an aviation nut, so enjoyed what I saw. I thought the book was good until I got to Chapters 3 & 4 and adultery was so non-chalant. That was enough for me.
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Summary: Excellent writing, too much adultery
Review: I saw the tail end of the movie a couple years ago. I'm an aviation nut, so enjoyed what I saw. I thought the book was good until I got to Chapters 3 & 4 and adultery was so non-chalant. That was enough for me.
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Summary: Solid, entertaining book
Review: If you've seen the movie you know the story. The writing is very similar to John D. MacDonald's non-Travis McGee works with an almost Tom Clancy-ish attention to detail and realism. Hailey definitely was trying for something more here than just a tidy little soap opera. Quite a number of issues plagueing airports and airline travel, some of which continue to today, are discussed in great detail with both sides of each arguement dutifully laid out. All of this around a convincing story, some of the highlights of which include a snowstorm, protesters, divorce, husbands and wives cheating on each other, a desperate bomber and a crippled jet. Who could ask for more?!
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Summary: A book which makes you sweat !
Review: Mr hailey has done a marvelous job! This book has been pains-takingly written It has been meticulously precise till the last detail. I was lost in a maze , a maze with no exits only more and more complications. Congratulations on a job well done !
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Summary: Discovery channel realism combined with soap opera drama!
Review: This book is excellent, worth going out and finding a used copy. Hailey combines the real life excitement of an airport with believable characters. Best of all, it's an accurate, behind the scenes view of what really goes on at an airport in a disaster situation. (at least it was in 1970)
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Summary: CAUTION: Don't opperate a plane while reading!
Review: This book is SCARY! Every fear you have about flying becomes a reality. I don't recommend that the weak-hearted read it. Definetely, don't read it on a plane! Not only is it scary, but it is also a great story with a wonderful and involving plot. You can't put it down! But, you'll want to. .
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Summary: CAUTION: Don't opperate a plane while reading!
Review: This book is SCARY! Every fear you have about flying becomes a reality. I don't recommend that the weak-hearted read it. Definetely, don't read it on a plane! Not only is it scary, but it is also a great story with a wonderful and involving plot. You can't put it down! But, you'll want to. .
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Summary: AN INFORMATIVE NOVEL
Review: This is classic Arthur Hailey. A well researched novel. It gives us a sneak preview of what happens behind the scenes of a busy airport. The characters are not super humans; they are as normal as you and me. It keeps you interested from the first page itself. The interest is not only maintained by the plot with its several twists and turns but also by the information which Hailey provides his reader with, through his characters. If you have never had been through an Arthur Hailey novel, read this. This might just get you started with an author whose books are as informative as they are entertaining. It might even make you consider on a career.
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Summary: Totally action packed from begining to end. Realistic.
Review: This is the book that got me interested in reading as a youth. It is action packed and believable. It is informative, providing much factual information concerning the nations air travel system while telling a very human and compelling story.
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Summary: Dull
Review: This was the hardest book I ever read; not because of difficult language or complexity but sheer volume of endless, ultimately pointless text that muffles the plot. The book's over 300 pages long and very little of note happens until the last 50 or so pages; there are so many characters and storylines that I ended up not caring much about any of them. And the amount of filler is staggering; the author spends several sides explaining the airline policy on stewardesses who are made pregnant by pilots. Of course, the research Hailey has done can't be faulted, and it certainly gives an insight into the running of an airport, but honestly after 200-odd pages of adultery, marital discord, delays, airline stowaways, 'feisty' employees who remove all the capital letters from their typewriters and flippant stewardesses planning seductions in Naples, I really couldn't care less what happened in the end. Don't bother.
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