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Title: Airframe by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345402871 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81
Rating: 5
Summary: The plot is in the title
Comment: This is my first Michael Crichton novel. At first, I hated it. At the beginning, I found his style too slow moving for my taste. Nothing seems to happen. Yet, Crichton is a crafty writer. Reading AIRFRAME is like putting together a fascinating puzzle. It starts slow but builds and builds and builds to the point of supersonic speed and intrigue. He teases the reader to continue to read with mere tidbits of unrevealed clues - then he slaps the reader in the face. Everything is laid out for the reader, but I missed it. That's what makes this a great novel - the element of surprise.
Crichton's characters are also vivid. In my experience, character development is the most complex and difficult task for a writer. Crichton's mastery of the English language enables the reader to feel that the characters are real rather than fiction. The pace in describing the main characters demonstrates his crafty writing skill. His style produces a rare kind of realism that pushes the reader on the edge of the chair. The vividness of being chased and falling are so genuine, one feels like one is watching a film rather than reading a book.
Lastly, and this will not spoil the plot, the story line can be found in the title. Yet, I doubt that most readers will be able to put it all together until the last chapter.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good read, but not his best
Comment: After finishing Michael Crichton's latest book Airframe, I have to conclude that, while the book was pretty entertaining, it was not quite up to the standards set by Crichton's previous novels. Other books by this author including Jurrasic Park and Andromeda Strain became bestsellers because of the suspensful writing combined with interesting characters and detailed technical explanations. While Airframe does deliver on the technical interest, which I greatly enjoyed, the tense scenes were not written quite as well and were fewer in number. Despite the relative lack of action scenes, there were enough to make the book satisfactory entertainment, and there were some insights into the media world that were both unexpected and apprecaited, as I find that subject to be very interesting. The technical explanations that Crichton is famous for were also very well done in this book, and I found th obeservations on the aircraft manufacturing industry and the airline industry to be very interesting. Parts of the novel also managed to invoke emotion into the reader, mainly outrage at the behavior of the media in the novel. The plot of the book was reasonably well organized, with a decent-sized pool of characters. The events were connected well and were easy to understand, but character development was fairly limited. We only get a good understanding of one character since the author focuses primarily on the events. Overall, I enjoyed this book, but I wouldn't rank it among the best novels that I've read.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disapponting
Comment: This is my first Crichton book and I must say I'm very disappointed. I have another one of his books on my shelf but I'm in no hurry to read it.
On the plus side the story was well researched and it provided, to a novice, an insight into crash investigation. However, the book was slow and only the fact that I'm stubborn I would have given up on it.
The ending is very good but it take a long time coming.
In summary, give it a miss. Good ending but you'll feel disappointed having sat through it.
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Title: Timeline by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345417623 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 24 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Prey: A Novel by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0066214122 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 25 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Sphere by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345353145 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: January, 1990 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: A Case of Need by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0451183665 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Rising Sun by Michael Crichton ISBN: 0345380371 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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