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Loading... Airframe: A Novel (edition 2011)by Michael Crichton (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 3.5 Stars. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Look, I get and agree with some of the criticisms, particularly of the shallow characters. But I actually really love what a lot of people disliked, namely the insane amount of DETAIL about airplanes. I've never considered myself someone who is into airplanes. At all. But I do love to learn, and I have a soft spot for deep dives into obscure topics that don't seem interesting on the surface (but totally are). This book really hit the spot on that front, plus I enjoyed the general mystery (which I did figure out the thrust of before the end, yay me!) and the fast-paced writing. I was confused about 2 things that happened. Content wise: There was a fair bit of taking the Lord's name in vain, which I don't appreciate in my reading. There were two scenes of fornication, nothing graphic was "shown", but the scenes were entirely pointless in my view and the novel gained nothing by including them. There are a lot of naysayers here, but I really liked this book. It's a thriller novel with suitably short chapters about the problems of an aircraft company, Norton, as it tries to deal with the media, business partners, engineering problems, the mysterious provenance of an accident, and many others. It doesn't sound immediately enticing, but I enjoyed this book more than Sphere - it felt somehow more tangible and the characters more convincing. This was not actually my first read, but the last time was sufficiently long ago that I couldn't remember any plot details. The story is largely presented from the viewpoints of two characters - Casey Singleton, a press officer for Norton tasked along with others with finding out what happened on a flight incident which left many passengers injured and a few killed, and Jennifer Malone, reporter for Newsline, looking to tear apart Norton for a 15 minute story. Events unfold and Crichton is able to push his message that the media is getting too powerful, while maintaining tension and keeping me awake (I read this in one sitting!) no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation. AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain. No library descriptions found.
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As for predictable, I don't want to spoil it, but I will say that a good portion of it, though only mildly relevant to the story line itself, is blatantly obvious from the beginning, especially when different characters start mentioning tension between two particular elements in the story. In the end, it really doesn't end up being that important, although it does explain why certain characters pushed certain plausibilities as the cause for the in air incident that the book is based around.
In the end, it was a relatively mindless, predictable, quick read. It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but I can't say it'd be the first book that comes to mind as a "must read". ( )