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Summary: Excellent, Suspenceful Novel
Review: This was an excellent and suspenceful novel one of the greatest of Michael Crichton's works!Great details, suspence and a sense of knowing. You feel like you really had been working for an airline media group. It's that detailed and well portrayed the works of an airline media team. I recommend it to everyone! It might be alittle draggy on the details and explanations but other than that, which is necessary in the plot, this book keeps you questioning. Read it and see for yourself! ***** five star!!
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Summary: An easy and entertaining read.
Review: I can't rank this book among Crichton's most exciting or interesting stories, but it is a reasonably good page-turner. And I'm tempted to give it another star for the wonderful job Crichton does of portraying the incompetence, ignorance, and sometimes deliberate deceptiveness of the American media.
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Summary: Very Informative
Review: This book was absolutely fantastic. I loved it from beginning to end. I checked the book out, and was done with it later that same day, you just can't put it down. It is written from a day to day point, and you just have to see what happens the next day. After reading this book I became interested in aviation, before I never even thought about it, I just didn't like planes. I recommend this book to anyone who likes Michael Crichton books, it is one of the better ones out there.
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Summary: UNEXCITING AND WEAK - UNLIKE CRICHTON
Review: This book will disappoint even the most avid Crichton fan. It lacks the suspense and excitement that Crichton novels are known for. If you like Crichton and want to keep it that way, don't read this. If you want to try reading Crichton, start with Sphere, which is an amazing book.
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Summary: A nonstop thriller of a flight
Review: I just finished reading this book and I have to say it only took me three days. I could not put this book down. It's technical information makes it realistic but it's not overwhelming. This book stirred up many emotions (especially anger)at various industries (especially the media) like no other book has before. You get behind the character and feel like you are the one that all of this is happening and you feel what she feels. The best thing about this book is you put a lot together yourself but then the ending is completely different from what you expected. The fact that you see a lot of what actually happened actually stirs up your emotions more. This book has made me a huge fan of Michael Crichton's and I can't wait to read more.
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Summary: Not very good
Review: Crichton at his best gives us a mix of brilliant technological insight set in an atmosphere of almost suffocating paranoia; one thinks of scientists racing against the clock against a killer ET virus (The Andromeda Strain) or dinosaur cloners who are hunted down by their own creations. This is not Crichton at his best. The paranoia is definitely there, as always, the heroes seem to be at the mercy of dark forces lurking in the shadows, but the technology part simply doesn't measure up. Crichton's understanding of both the aircraft industry and the basic rules of aeronautical engineering are sorely lacking, and it shows, especially in the downright ludicrous "resolution" at the end, in which a team of engineers and a test pilot come up with a completely ridiculous explanation for a plane losing control in flight. It may sound like nit picking, after all, most people who read this won't know about the technical details and probably won't care, nonetheless, Crichton has established a rep for being a master of detail, especially on technology, so this book looks as sloppy as if Tom Clancy tried to pass off a B-52 as being "stealthy".
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Summary: Engineless Fuselage
Review: A good book must include many literary devices, to keep the readers attention and interests in a book. These devices must be used to end up with a good book as the finished product. In Michael Crichton's Airframe, like many of Crichton's other works, it seems as if he gets interested in a topic and says this will make a good book, disregarding most literary and writing devices. In this book Crichton dazzles the reader with superfluous details of the Aircraft industry, but he forgets the use of all-literary terms, but possibly imagery and tone. Crichton lays the story and characters out forgetting character and story development, theme, and nearly all plot structure. The only device he uses well is imagery, and he goes to great extents to use this. Airframe is filled with detail and imagery that makes the reader feel as if they are in the hanger with Casey going through the fuselage checking every wing panel and frame board, but again that's all the story has. This story has cookie cutter characters that don't develop, and are only described in vast detail, and not thought out in the least and a plot that is transparent, and is predictable from nearly the title of the story. The story suffers much from the lack of these key components, but makes up for it somewhat with the meticulous details and tidbits. Tone in most cases, should be used to help the reader better understand the novel, like most literary devices, however tone in this story is negligible, or having a negative affect. The tone in this story is one that you might call casual or informal. This tone doesn't change anything about the other literary devices, but again helping with the descriptions and imagery. Overall this book is lacking many of the devices it needs to be a compelling, well written novel, and instead is a mere thriller that might help one understand more about the aircraft industry along with its people.
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Summary: Favorite Crichton
Review: This is my favorite book by this author. The characters are believable, the plot is vivid, and the ending makes every moment of rapid page turning worth while. Highly recommended to any fan of Crichton's works.
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Summary: Excellent!!!
Review: Airframe was a great read! The plot gained momentum as it went along and I could not put it down. This is the first time I've read Michael Crichton since The Andromeda Strain very first came out and I will be going for more of the work of this very talented author.
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Summary: Absorbing--Deep Insights Into Airline Safety
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If you are a frequent flyer, or afraid of flying, this is a riveting book that will easily cause several hours to pass and will have the added benefit of making you feel much safer as you fly.
The author has done a really outstanding job of first understanding and then explaining to a lay person the enormous complexity and rigorous attention to detail that go into building and testing commercial aircraft, and investigating mishaps when they occur. The minor plot elements aside (the usual cast of media mediocrities, intra-office back-stabbers, etc.), this book makes aircraft safety *exciting.* I was completely absorbed in what this author has put together, and highly recommend this book as an intelligent thriller with a practical foundation.
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