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Summary: One of his best books!
Review: This is one of those books in which you can't put it down. Things just keep happening and you want to read on to see what happenes. I'd recommend this book over Jurassic and The Lost World. The author knows almost nothing about dinos. (who does?) I feel by this book that Crichton does know alot about airplanes and does a good job describing things about the work in a jumbo jet plant.
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Summary: It was a great book. Very realistic.
Review: This book was fantastic a lot of action and very realistic. The book was about an airplane that has problems in midair. Three people are dead fiftyseven injured. Now it is up to Casey Singleton to find out what happend. She only has two weeks before a major busness deal takes place.
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Summary: Excellent!!
Review: This book will keep you reading on until the very last page......really exciting and thrilling. I must say this is about the best of Michael Crichton. I'm not a Crichton fan, and I think his novels like Jurassic Park and the Lost World are absolutely ridiculous, but deifinitely not this book. Airframe is quite different from the others, at least it's PRETTY realistic. And it's quite amazing that Crichton can know so much about airplanes and stuff. Anyway, it's worth reading, so buy it now!
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Summary: I want my money back!
Review: Today I woke up ashamed of myself! How can I forgive myself after I wasted my time and money reading that monumental piece of garbage--Michael Crichton's Airframe. How can I forgive myself when there are countless literary masterpieces that I have not read, and yet, I stupidly read this awful book? How will I ever explain to my kids that I read this worthless "novel" even though I had long ago realized that Crichton writes terribly? Why, I must wonder, did I submit myself to the same kind of unconvincing characters, contrived plot, and insipid prose that characterized Crichton's Disclosure? I cannot understand or justify my actions. But don't despair, for I have learned my lesson. Never again will I waste my time on Crichton's work. I promise.
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Summary: Another great techno-thriller from Crichton
Review: Another great one from MC, I t seems like he sat down, read everything he could about airplanes, then figured out an accident that could happen. Only Crichton could make planes this exciting without a crash involved. I did a book report on this book.
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Summary: This book will keep you on the edge until the last page!
Review: Crichton delivers a another great novel. I like the way he portrayed the main character Casey Singleton. She is portrayed in a strong way, not as a helpless female. He gives you all of the clues up front, and then ties them all together at the end of the book. He does a great job of making technical information interesting. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a great Who-Dunnit.
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Summary: One of his best !
Review: After I picked this book up and started
to read the first few chapter I started to think
to myself " A lot of technicalites and a lot
of abriviations i have to remmber" But after
I got though that and got into the book I
absolutely love it. After the intial insident,
I couldn't stop reading.. one of my most enjoyable novels I have read .
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Summary: An interesting, informational and exciting work.
Review: "Airframe" Author:Michael Crichton I find "Airframe" is a very interesting book, at least enough for the reader to finish it. Crichton, as in all his novels, did a lot of research. Despite this, I found many aspects in this novel tiring, specially the fact that there are too many technical details that almost dwarf the main story -of course they don't get to do it-. The characters (you can count over three thousand), except, maybe Casey Singleton, aren't sufficiently developed and at times they become essentially boring cartoons, because Crichton employs too much time in his techno babble. Not that the facts about the airplanes are so boring, but sometimes they take over the plot, slowing down its rythm. Anyway, I enjoyed this novel very much because it presents a chain of very exciting coincidences and events (Crichton succesfully keeps our attention making real life a lot more interesting), so many of them, that sometimes they can get exhausting. What I definitely liked the most was that the book makes a solid critic at modern life aspects such as sensationalistic media and industry management corruption. Like his "Lost World", at the end it makes us wonder: What's this world turning into?, because we realize that honesty and search for the truth -what Casey defends as an honorable person, even when it could cost her job- are just forgotten principles and all that rules powerful people's minds is search for money and more power. Happily, Casey triumphs at the end, but actually because of her luck, as her neighbor makes her see, "You were stupid. You should have lied" he tells her, and we think next time she will have no other choice.
A great novel from a great writer. I can't wait till the movie!
Rating:
Summary: An interesting, informational and exciting work.
Review: I find "Airframe" is a very interesting book, at least enough for the reader to finish it. Crichton, as in all his novels, did a lot of research. Despite this, I found many aspects in this novel tiring, specially the fact that there are too many technical details that almost dwarf the main story -of course they don't get to do it-. The characters (you can count over three thousand), except, maybe Casey Singleton, aren't sufficiently developed and at times they become essentially boring cartoons, because Crichton employs too much time in his techno babble. Not that the facts about the airplanes are so boring, but sometimes they take over the plot, slowing down its rythm. Anyway, I enjoyed this novel very much because it presents a chain of very exciting coincidences and events (Crichton succesfully keeps our attention making real life a lot more interesting), so many of them, that sometimes they can get exhausting. What I definitely liked the most was that the book makes a solid critic at modern life aspects such as sensationalistic media and industry management corruption. Like his "Lost World", at the end it makes us wonder: What's this world turning into?, because we realize that honesty and search for the truth -what Casey defends as an honorable person, even when it could cost her job- are just forgotten principles and all that rules powerful people's minds is search for money and more power. Happily, Casey triumphs at the end, but actually because of her luck, as her neighbor makes her see, "You were stupid. You should have lied" he tells her, and we think next time she will have no other choice. A great novel from a great writer. I can't wait till the movie!
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Summary: Airframe rocks!!
Review: Airframe is one of the best books by Michael Crighton I have ever read. It can get a litte monotonous sometimes, but for the most part it is exciting and a definite must-read.
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