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Title: Turbulence by John J. Nance, Russell Byers ISBN: 1-58788-818-1 Publisher: Brilliance Audio Pub. Date: 29 April, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Road Rage at a new Altitude
Comment: I don't want to fly with John Nance, but I can't put his books down once I begin to read one. He knows enough about the frightening events that take place on airplanes or makes up enough new ones to scare a timid soul into taking the bus.
In Turbulence, the setting is post 9/11 and Meridian Airlines is dealing with internal problems. Meridian is a mirror image of any airline that flying passengers have been on with poor service, too little space, lack of good information, and passengers traveling with personal problems. Add to the mix a captain who had been a good domestic pilot of super big airplanes
who had bid on an international flight route and was not given enough training on the differences of international and domestic flight. The pilot was insecure and working on an ulcer; the copilot was hostile towards him and trying not to worry about his own problems at home. The lead flight attendant was hostile and hated the passengers she was supposed to be serving.
Several passengers with problems of their own had experienced problems with Meridian before takeoff to South Africa. The delay is long and uncomfortable with no acceptable explanation.
During the flight the pilot mistakes a mechanical signal for an engine fire and lands in the middle of a civil war in Nigeria.
With no confidence in the pilot, the passengers revolt in a rage, the lead flight atttendant hides in the cockpit, and the plane moving through the skies becomes a threat to the controllers on the ground who have no idea what is actually going on inside the plane.
The suspense is almost unbearable. Read the book, but not on a trip that involves waiting in airports, boarding airplanes, or sitting close to people that are strangers.
Rating: 1
Summary: So much for subtlety
Comment: In his zest to make the airline in this book as detestable as possible, Nance has fashioned a company that is so universally infuriating that he destroys any believeability in this novel. I fly relatively often and have seen poor airline behavior, but the consistency of the antipathy towards passengers and between employees that Nance describes is just ridiculous and completely uncredible. This novel would have been less heavy handed in its approach to the airline, then it would have been less humorous and more foreboding.
Rating: 1
Summary: High Comedy?
Comment: The reviewer who said that the only way this could be made into a movie was if it were a comedy featuring Leslie Nielsen hit the nail on the head.
This incredibly silly book goes from bad to worse with cartoon villains who are so over the top I busted out laughing during moments of what were supposed to be high tension.
I still can't decide who was funnier, the evil stewardess from hell or the looney doctor who tries to comandeer the airplane...but then again, if you appreciate high comedy, the moronic pilot was right up there.
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Title: Headwind by John J. Nance ISBN: 0515132624 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Blackout by John J. Nance ISBN: 0515130125 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Skyhook by John J. Nance ISBN: 0399149805 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Scorpion Strike by John J. Nance ISBN: 0449222217 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 04 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Final Approach by John J. Nance ISBN: 0449220354 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 22 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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