Airframe

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Summary: Fun to read...All the way
Review: Michael Crichton has again written incredibly. I breezed through this book in one night! It was suspensful, educational, intriuging, unpredictable, and fun. This is his next best after The Andromeda Strain! - Matt Colvi

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Summary: READ THIS!!!!!!
Review: This book is awesome. Forget the bad reviews about the technical jargon!!!Michael explains all of it so almost anyone can understand it!! I recomend this to anyone that likes to read

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Summary: This pilot is snoozing...
Review: Airframe is by far Crichton's worst novel. The suspense in this novel is about as exiciting as walking down a Vermont country road. As usual Crichton has done his research on his subject matter, but loses the reader by drowning them in airplane technical jargon. Furthermore, his characters are so shallow, that one doesn't really muster up any sympathy for them as they are written as mere bodies walking through a dilemma. Crichton writes his 'chapters' in a concise fashion as if to prepare the novel for a screenplay adaptation. Airframe lacks the page-turning dilemmas of Disclosure and his radical social commentaries (reverse sexual harrasment, the Japanese's lack of principles, the dangers of bionic cloning). Airline disasters are nothing new, and Crichton is late in excavating this topic versus the times when he has broken ground with alerting his readers of the social dangers evolving out there. It seems as though Crichton was afraid to thrust his readers in the middle of a real jet crash a la last summer's Long Island incident. Hence, the story comes across tame in its excitement, and fails to confront the real problems and aftermaths of a plane crash (particularly from the victims' standpoint). Airframe reads like a cheap made for TV film, and the best one can hope for a feature version of a film, is one where the producer and director change many elements of the story.

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Summary: Great book, excellent research, pageturner, suspencefull
Review: I, thought he did his research, he could have kept things going in the middle a little more, I almost put it down, the ending really picks up and I could not put it down.

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Summary: This was my best ever read
Review: I have a reputation of only reading books with pictures. In this case I was recommended Airframe by both my wife and daughter. It is the first "big book" I have completely read in the last 5 years and I couldn't put it down. The mix of suspensful storyline along with the technicalities of the airline industry made for compulsive reading. Anymore books like this

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Summary: Good luck with the movie, Crichton!
Review: I've come to expect much more of Crichton than this screenplay he has written. I found it boring. Does anyone else get tired of his explaining the too complicated techie stuff to some inane character? This time is was the assistant; usually it's some precocious child. And what about that assistant? Didn't know what to do with him at the end? So, you made him a drug dealer (no hint of that in the rest of the book). This book stunk

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Summary: A rare airplane thriller
Review: Michael Crichton's Airframe is one of his best books ever. A plane crashes under most bizzare circumstances,and a team of people have to figure out what happened to this plane. I couldn't put it down. Before i read Airframe I knew almost nothing about Airplanes. Now I know much, much more

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Summary: Crichton delivers again! A real page turner!
Review: I started reading this book and couldn't sleep or put it down until I finished it. As always, Michael Crichton has done deep research on his subject, and educates us on the details of the airline industry. The action and suspense is gripping, however I felt like I was reading "Disclosure" all over again, with a different set of characters and stage, which I found somewhat disappointing. This, however, does not take away the fact that this book is excellent reading and educational. Recommended reading for all Crichton fans

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Summary: A good book, just not up to Crichton's potential
Review: Airframe is a very good, readable book that teaches the reader alot about airplanes and airplane safety. It's better than The Lost World, but far inferior to Jurrasic Park and Disclosure

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Summary: UGH!
Review: After reading this book, I feel like I could fly, repair, and/or build an aircraft now! I was interested in the characters, and that's the only reason I finished the book. I was totally lost and couldn't care less about all the technical jargon Mr. Crichton used. I love most of his other books, but Airframe seemed more like a "How to build a plane, or investigate a plane crash in 30 days or less, all from the comfort of your own home" instruction manual. Ugh