Airframe
by Michael Crichton
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Book Reviews of Airframe
Book Review: A Fine Novel
Summary: 5 Stars
Airframe by Michael Crichton was a fabulous novel by one of America's best Science Fiction novelists. After a TPA flight goes down for an unknown cause, Casey Singleton, the QA director for the builder of the plane, investigtes along with her team to find out the mysterious cause the killed 16 and left many, many more injured.After a young worker for an NBC news show finds out about the problems going on with the planes, she decides to do a report on it. Casey is then forced to make up lies to get the interview over while she has to investigate the plane crash and has problems with her daughter at home.
Casey does the interview and then goes to different people around the factory to see if they can help with the plane. She learns to read the black box it will take weeks so she decides to go to a video store and put on tape the recordings of one of the passengers. After doing this she knows the truth about what happened after she took a test flight on the plane that was in the accident.
Airframe is a novel that you don't want to miss whether you are a fan of Michael Crichton or not. Not only does the book have a fabulous story, it is also a great reference just like all of his other books. Be sure to read this one and enjoy it. I think you will.
HAPPY READING!
Book Review: Detail is God in this page turner!
Summary: 5 Stars
Thanks to the utterly amazing attention to detail, we can all now fly a plane. Crichton tells us how it gets off the ground, tells us the controls and also gives us a guided tour of the very components. This is astounding! One of my most adored Michael Crichton books, and subsequently one his best, I feel, of all his novels. The beauty of this book, though, has to be the almost anticlimactic ending. What am I saying? I will tell...Take all that the book goes through. The investigation, the characters views, the notions behind what 'could' have gone wrong, and see where the reader ends up? That's right, the simple failure of the 'pilot' to leave the controls to the autopilot. How fantastis is that! To be honest, I was fooled all along, expecting some ground breaking discovery, some hideous revelation. But no, not this book. Oh, no! All the suspense, anticipation and all the direction changes in the plot lead to such a simple solution. Brilliant.
This is art in itself. Crichton has exelled himself with this book. He makes the obvious seem somehow beyond us, allowing us to blur our vision with so many ideas that we simply forget what we are really supposed to searching for. If you want a book that will take you wherever it decides to go , then grab this quickly.
Book Review: A good aviation novel
Summary: 5 Stars
Airframe by Michael Crichton is a good novel with good technical information and understanding of aviation. It's a mystery essentially, and a more well-done one than Crichton's previous mystery novel, Rising Sun. It's easier to follow and makes more sense in the end. Casey, a vice-president at Norton Aircraft is taking part in an investigation of an aircraft incident in which a Norton-built aircraft poirpoises (not sure if I spelled that right) or takes a series of steep dives and climbs that results in the deaths of three people and fifty-six more injured. (Although if I am right in my calculations it becomes four dead and fifty-five injured. Don't worry, that wasn't a plot spoiler.) Norton tells her and the rest of the people involved that they need to discover what really happened fast, otherwise a major deal on which the outcome of the company rests could be flushed away. Casey has to work through a twisted puzzle of clues and technical info to solve the mystery, with the wait of the company and the pressure of the media on her shoulders, and against a foe who is determined to not let her succeed. Like I said, this book makes good use of aviation tech stuff for a suspenseful plot, which is a Crichton trademark. It's a great read and is definitely recommended.Book Review: A Real Page-Turner
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first heard of this novel, the subject matter sounded uninteresting to me. Only after a friend strongly recommended it did I give it any consideration at all. And even then, I waited until there were no other books on my "to read" list before buying a copy. Well, I wish I hadn't waited so long. Airframe is a great book!Michael Crichton brings his usual cinematic writing style to Airframe, reinforcing a suspenseful story with a level of technical detail that brings depth and additional interest to the events that take place. And while the book is primarily focused on an investigation into an airplace accident, which may sound dry and uninteresting, the character interactions and intrigue are more than enough to keep the story moving at a steady pace. In fact, there was never a point where I felt the momentum lull.
As an added plus, I particularly enjoyed Crichton's portrayal of the news media. I felt that his unforgiving commentary on the motives and methods of television "news" programs was dead on, and in fact has become even more accurate in the years since he wrote this novel.
Kudos to Crichton for this one - I would recommend that anyone read Airframe, and do so before they ruin it by turning it into a movie!
Book Review: A Real Page-Turner
Summary: 5 Stars
When I first heard of this novel, the subject matter sounded uninteresting to me. Only after a friend strongly recommended it did I give it any consideration at all. And even then, I waited until there were no other books on my "to read" list before buying a copy. Well, I wish I hadn't waited so long. Airframe is a great book!Michael Crichton brings his usual cinematic writing style to Airframe, reinforcing a suspenseful story with a level of technical detail that brings depth and additional interest to the events that take place. And while the book is primarily focused on an investigation into an airplace accident, which may sound dry and uninteresting, the character interactions and intrigue are more than enough to keep the story moving at a steady pace. In fact, there was never a point where I felt the momentum lull.
As an added plus, I particularly enjoyed Crichton's portrayal of the news media. I felt that his unforgiving commentary on the motives and methods of television "news" programs was dead on, and in fact has become even more accurate in the years since he wrote this novel.
Kudos to Crichton for this one - I would recommend that anyone read Airframe, and do so before they ruin it by turning it into a movie!