Airport

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Summary: WORTHWHILE
Review: Airport was the first Hailey book I read.The first thing that caught my attention was the easy way in which the author had brought down his characters.Normal and downto earth they make you wish you were one of them.Thrilling,exiting and imaginative it is one of the books I read whenever I feel like it. I recommend another book by the same author "MONEY CHANGERS" which will give the same exitement.

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Summary: Makes me wish to see Lincoln International
Review: Almost all my friends who read the book dreamt of becoming airport managers for a few days after that. There can be no greater tribute to Hailey. Unlike many authors, like Mario Puzo, who have written just 1 epic and faded away Hailey has maintained his standard of research & story telling in almost all of his books(except for Overload & Evening News)

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Summary: Big Fun
Review: As an avid reader I like to alternate classics and popular fiction. This is pop at its best! Mr.Hailey mixes suspense with a journalistic approach to his subject in this case, the airline industry of the early 1970's. The "you are there" feeling puts you right into the middle of the action.

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Summary: Excellent writing, too much adultery
Review: Called a potboiler in its time: Sex, sin, stowaways and a mad bomber, all crammed into one long night at a 1970s snowbound airport stands the test of time. Hailey's meticulous attention to detail with regard to every aspect of the story including the inner workings of an international airport under stress in that decade demand the reader's attention. The plot revolves around a beleaguered airport manager juggling a failing marriage and a crisis on location, his arrogant and philandering pilot brother in law, an out of work man teetering over into desperation and how their paths cross on one dangerous night. Absorbing and thrilling, even after all this time.

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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: 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: 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: 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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Summary: Airport
Review: When a terrifying crisis erupts--stranding a snowbound airport in a blizzard of pressure, passion and peril--the key to life and death rests in the hands of one of four people: a tough troubleshooter, an arrogant pilot, a beautiful stewardess, or a brilliant airport manager. Airport is a great book. Arthur Hailey knows how to get things going! This is one to look up!