Airframe
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Airframe

by Michael Crichton

1996•Thriller•431 pages

Taste attributes: thrillervehiclesjournalisticbusinessrealisticlinearenclosedsolving the riddle/not as it seemsempowerment/personal growthsocial commentary

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Boxlist takeA small-scale thriller, balanced on most other counts. Best if you like close-up stories over spectacle.

Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: balanced · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

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3.7 / 5

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About This Book

Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books.

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Characteristics

Where this book sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast
FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal
DarkTONEWholesome
LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy
FantasyREALISMRealistic
SimpleINTRICACYIntricate
Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear
UnderstatedSTYLEStylised
IntimateSCALEEpic
RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ThrillerVehiclesJournalisticBusinessSolving the riddle/not as it seemsEmpowerment/personal growthSocial commentary

Subjects

Air safetyMedia relationsInvestigative journalismHuman-machine interactionPilot-induced oscillationType ratingFirst officersFlight engineers

Details

Author
Michael Crichton
Published
1996
Pages
431
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