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Summary: Absolutely riveting
Review: Great storyline. A mixture of the hi-tech-thriller that Crichton is famous for and corporate intrigue that Crichton mastered so well in Rising Sun.
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Summary: I Loved It!!
Review: As a flight attendant, I enjoy any books related to the airline/ aviation industry. This past Christmas, my family took a ski trip but I had broken my toe, so I wasn't able to ski. I ended up reading this book in just a few days! I was glued to it!I love Micheal Crichton's books and this is one of his best!!
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Summary: Airframe : a rather good book from Michael Crichton
Review: This is a difficult book to rate.On one hand, Michael Crichton's Airframe is a page-turning book. So long that I haven't spent one whole day sitting and just reading one book. It captures me from the first page and turn more excited till the end.I suppose Crichton have done a lot of research about the commercial airplane, this informative detail is added in the scene of this book and being a crucial part to get reader understanding more for all the technical stuff in the book. Very well-done. On the other hand, I found that there is not so many impressive feeling left much after finish reading this book. I don't have any intention to re-read this book which I think it pretty weird for me. Not like "Congo", "Sphere", "Jurassic Park" or even "Travel", all these books I always pick them up and re-read from time to time. At least, the action scenes in this book is very dull. Overall, I give this book 4 stars, this is an exciting and a good choice for anyone. Make sure that you have free time before open this book.
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Summary: Great plotting!
Review: Great plotting. if this were a summer movie no doubt that it would be a smash hit. Great writing. Fantastic! A thrill ride! Pulse pounding!
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Summary: One point off for poor technical research
Review: The book was classic Crichton, but I was disappointed with his factual errors that could have been avoided with some really basic research, such as: 1. His description of a turbofan engine was very jumbled and just plain wrong. In one passage he refers to the fan and compressor interchangeably as he talks about metal temperatures of 2500F. The air temperature does not get anywhere near this high in that part of the engine because it is prior to fuel combustion. Even in the hot section of the engine, this might be the temperature of the gas, but certainly not of the metal. Thousands of engineers in the aerospace industry could have helped him with his description without giving away any proprietary information. 2. He refers to runways #2 and #3 at the same airport, apparently thinking runways are sequentially numbered. As any private pilot could have told him, runways are numbered by the compass heading, with the last digit deleted, so that a runway aiming to the east is #9, one to the south is #18, and so on. You would never find runways #2 and #3 at the same airport. As usual for Crichton, the book was a page turner, but these blatant errors interrupted the flow of the story for me.
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Summary: Boo
Review: I was an avid Michael Crichton reader up to and NOT including Airframe. I am no longer a fan, or at least not with the same enthusiasm. I have not picked up a Crichton book ever since. I am still recovering from this literary disaster. Crichton has a knack of going into great technical detail in the middle of his books to further inform the reader. In every other book I read, this flowed quite smoothly, in Airframe, this technical information could not have been drier. The book never seemed to get off the ground as the action happened within the first 5 pages, and the remainder of the book dicusses the investigation. Simply not Crichton's best work.
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Summary: Airframe
Review: Michael Crichton's Airframe is a shining example of the fog over the fine line between classics and passing fads. Written in 1995 amidst a global fear of air travel, Airframe is a fast-paced story of one airline's struggle between the media and financial ruin. Norton Airlines is a top-notch airline manufacturer with a flawless record. When one of their planes goes down because of a mysterious "turbulence" the company's Incident Review Team must frantically piece together the puzzle to save a corporation. This combined with a rabid dog news agency, provides for an enthralling novel that only Michael Crichton could orchestrate. Michael Crichton does an excellent job developing his characters in Airframe by stepping outside the typical novel frameworks and using a technique that is rarely seen in pop novels. Crichton, the founder of such notable screen works as Jurassic Park, and ER, uses a screenplay format in this novel. The characters are exposed in life like situations by an author who is basically a camera lens, unbiased and factual. While indulging in the pages of Airframe the reader's mind immediately wanders away and "watches" the action take place in one's head. Unlike other ensnaring books; however, Airframe's plot is arranged in sections and cut scenes as though it were ready for the big screen. In doing this, the characters are exposed as they would be on a film, without author narrative. The major themes of this story are the man versus self struggle of protagonist Casey Singleton and her man versus man struggle against the biased and twisting news agency. The story is written in the "slice-of-life" format, focused around one event, and the characters are represented in a realistic way. All characters are flawed in their own way, but some, as in the case of Casey, are trying to be better people. Thus another aspect of the conflicts rears its head: good versus evil, or more specifically honesty. At the completion of the book, Crichton shows where the characters are a few years down the road, and subtly passes judgement on them in accordance with their stance on the good versus evil theme. Airframe is a book of morals tales. The plot of Airframe, as Cricthon would write it, is easy to read and draws the reader in to the story. The story ends with the warm sense of completion, which inspires one to read other books that Crichton has written. Within the screenplay rubric, Crichton uses foreshadowing that is only seen after the event. I learned this from my father, who, because his line of work, reads large quantites of text in a short time. He has a habit of analyzing what he is reading while he reads, and immediately begins looking for evidence to support the conclusions he has drawn. It was he who pointed out some of the well hidden foreshadowing devices used in this book. The hints are in the fabric of the story, but one must focus to see them. Several moods are inspired because of this book. The moods change quickly based on revelations in the story, once again very similar to the way moods change in a movie or television show. The moods in Airframe range from hopelessness to anger to contempt and finally to success. Airframe is written in third person omniscient point of view with a non-intrusive and unbiased author. I would recommend this book to anyone because it is entertaining and informative. Crichton is a very learned man and typically studies his subjects to the point of obsession in order to be factually accurate. Airframe is no exception.
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Summary: Don't read before flying...
Review: Excellent book. I made the mistake of reading it before flying to go to a wedding. Noticed a lot of things about the way the plane works that I wouldn't have ordinarilly.
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Summary: Michael Crichton's best.
Review: I won't get wordy about this book, because it is simply the best book by MC I have read. It is believable, incredibly well written, the characters extremely well portrayed, the depiction of the vulture-like characteristics of our precious media - nothing less than PERFECT; It's scary, exciting, precise, three dimensional, intelligent, very well researched, imaginative and GREAT! I'm tipping my proverbial hat to Michael Crichton... Well done!
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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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