Showing posts with label Google Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Books. Show all posts

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Airframe


Airframe Book Reviewreally liked it

I have always been fascinated by Airplanes and especially Air Crash Investigations. Airplanes are extremely complex and yet the incidents that happen never involve just a single reason. They are an example of perfect machinery. And yet its humbling how a series of mistakes can bring down a plane in seconds. This makes investigating Air Crashes very difficult and also interesting as its one thing to find a fault and a totally different ball game to find a series of errors , that caused something so tragic.

Air Plane


The book is about an Airline Airframe manufacturing Company. An Aircraft develops problems mid air and rises up and falls down steeply for several minutes causing a couple of deaths and dozens of serious injuries to passengers. No one is sure of how and why this happened. The investigation gets more complicated due to the labor unrest and corporate games.

In the middle of all this is Ms Singleton , whose job is on the line. She has to find the reason of the Aircraft's malfunction before the media destroys the credibility of the Airplane.

The story is bit of a drag in the first half of the book, but it gets really interesting towards the end. Happy Reading.

I leave you with a video of How To Survive an Airplane Crash


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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

The Lost World

The Lost World



This is a sequel to the book Jurassic Park. In spite of their best effort in trying to destroy all the dinosaurs from the Islands, Some Survive and thrive in a remote Island. And as always there is some rich crazy guy willing to take the risk.

Unlike the first book there is more of "running around" and "fighting dinos" and less of technical mumbo jumbo. That makes it a very interesting read. While it does have a lot similarities to the previous books in terms of the plot . But overall a great book.

The Lost Word Book review - Must Read

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Monday, November 7, 2011

Jurassic park

Jurassic park by Michael Crichton


Most often movies that have been based on books, tend to be a watered down version and hardly seem to be of much interest. So while reading Jurassic park I was hoping to find something that would be better than the movie. 

However there was hardly any difference between the movie and the book. The book thus is as good as the movie. 

I wonder how much of difference it would make for those who read the book first. 

Jurassic Park Review - Must Read

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Pirate Latitudes

Pirate Latitudes


Pirate Latitude is a book by Michael Crichton about a daring adventure in the high seas. The story get a bit dull in the middle but does reward with lots of twists and turn at the end.

However in comparison to other books of Michael Crichton , Pirate Latitude leaves the reader rather disappointed. The narration is rather bland and doesn't really spark much imagination. probably because of the rather extinct lifestyle and plot that it is based on.

The Ending also leaves the reader confused whether it is a good or a bad ending.

In short a good book but not the best works of Michael

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Pirate Latitudes Book Review