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Airport '77
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205 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1977
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July 18, 2024
يعني، مش اللي هي.
August 8, 2022
Devoured on a flight, much fun
September 24, 2018
هذه القصة في أصلها فيلم ، الوصف و الحوار و تقديم الشخصيات بالتتابع و السطحية تناسب سيناريوهات أفلام المغامرة .
الأثارة و الأحداث السريعة المُتلاحقة الراكضة تنتمي لفيلم و لهذا لا أستطيع القول أنني قرأت قصة بل شاهدت فيلمًا مكتوبًا .. يحتاج إلي قليل من السرد و العمق في الشخصيات ليتحول إلي قصة مقبولة ! .
الأثارة و الأحداث السريعة المُتلاحقة الراكضة تنتمي لفيلم و لهذا لا أستطيع القول أنني قرأت قصة بل شاهدت فيلمًا مكتوبًا .. يحتاج إلي قليل من السرد و العمق في الشخصيات ليتحول إلي قصة مقبولة ! .
May 22, 2022
Airport ‘77 (1977) 🛫✈️🌊 is one of my favourite guilty pleasure films 🎞🎥.
Reading the novelisation 📖 by Michael Scheff and David Spector, based on their screenplay 📄, which itself is based on a story by H.A.L. Craig and Charles Kuenstle, inspired by Arthur Hailey’s novel, Airport 🛫✈️🛬, was good fun!
The story is pretty much the same as the film. Millionaire, Philip Stevens is leaving his Palm Beach 🏝 estate as a public museum 🏛 and is flying 🛫 his art treasures 🖼🗿🏆👑🔱, and his closest friends and family👩👦down to it onboard his luxury private Boeing 747 ✈️ to celebrate🍾 the grand opening. However, a gang of hijackers intent on stealing the art collection take the plane off course 🧭 in poor weather ⛈ and it crashes in The Bermuda Triangle 🌊. Trapped underwater, the surviving passengers struggle to care for the injured and alert the authorities 🤿🛟⛑ to their position, as the floodwaters start to rise inside the fuselage ✈️…
The novelisation 📖 has several altered and expanded scenes, providing a bit more information on how the hijackers planned their scheme, and further details on the private lives of many of the passengers. Overall, the characters feel convincingly like real people, some of whom have entirely different or slightly altered character arcs to their film counterparts. Some of these changes make good sense and add something to the plot (like the greater background information on the Stevens Corporation 747 project), whilst others aren’t as convincing (like the motives of the co-pilot, Chambers).
The novelisation 📖 does not have chapters, but instead relies on paragraph breaks. This is a bit jarring, but I used the paragraph breaks as a substitute for chapters. The sentence structure is a bit erratic at times, there are some instances of misspelling, and character names are misused here and there.
Other than that, if you like the idea of a disaster novel with a rescue operation 🤿🛟⛑ element that is fun 🤩 rather than depressing 😔, it’s a quick and exciting read!
Reading the novelisation 📖 by Michael Scheff and David Spector, based on their screenplay 📄, which itself is based on a story by H.A.L. Craig and Charles Kuenstle, inspired by Arthur Hailey’s novel, Airport 🛫✈️🛬, was good fun!
The story is pretty much the same as the film. Millionaire, Philip Stevens is leaving his Palm Beach 🏝 estate as a public museum 🏛 and is flying 🛫 his art treasures 🖼🗿🏆👑🔱, and his closest friends and family👩👦down to it onboard his luxury private Boeing 747 ✈️ to celebrate🍾 the grand opening. However, a gang of hijackers intent on stealing the art collection take the plane off course 🧭 in poor weather ⛈ and it crashes in The Bermuda Triangle 🌊. Trapped underwater, the surviving passengers struggle to care for the injured and alert the authorities 🤿🛟⛑ to their position, as the floodwaters start to rise inside the fuselage ✈️…
The novelisation 📖 has several altered and expanded scenes, providing a bit more information on how the hijackers planned their scheme, and further details on the private lives of many of the passengers. Overall, the characters feel convincingly like real people, some of whom have entirely different or slightly altered character arcs to their film counterparts. Some of these changes make good sense and add something to the plot (like the greater background information on the Stevens Corporation 747 project), whilst others aren’t as convincing (like the motives of the co-pilot, Chambers).
The novelisation 📖 does not have chapters, but instead relies on paragraph breaks. This is a bit jarring, but I used the paragraph breaks as a substitute for chapters. The sentence structure is a bit erratic at times, there are some instances of misspelling, and character names are misused here and there.
Other than that, if you like the idea of a disaster novel with a rescue operation 🤿🛟⛑ element that is fun 🤩 rather than depressing 😔, it’s a quick and exciting read!
February 5, 2019
No pude en ningún momento sentir que este libro no había sido escrito para adaptarse a cine o televisión. Y esa sensación hizo que no me atrapara como libro. De alguna manera me gusta experimentar que lo que estoy leyendo difícilmente podría filmarse tal como está plasmado y con este título no me pasó. Por eso la calificación que le doy. La historia es interesante pero por momentos me confundía entre tanto personaje que nunca terminé de ubicar. Quizá fui yo y no lo leí con toda la atención necesaria.
December 14, 2017
حسنا ، عودة لروايات عالمية للجيب ، ومجهود فوق الرائع من جميع المترجمين ، الرواية امريكية بامتياز ، تجعلك تشعر كأنك تشاهد فيلما أجنبيا بميزانية من ملايين ، لم تخلو من الاثارة و الاحداث السريعة وإن كنت اعتقد ان القصة يجب أن تحمل اسم الطائرة وليس المطار
September 8, 2024
Aunque se sabe en general cómo va a terminar y porque es la típica novela de los 70 en que se hicieron tantas películas de desastres, igual mantiene la tensión y se logra tomar cariño u odio a los personajes.
December 25, 2018
تحطف الأنفاس .. عندما تصل للاحداث لاتستطيع ترك الرواية حتى تُنهيها
June 10, 2020
I mean, it's a novelisation of a schlocky disaster movie from the 70s. Adjust your expectations accordingly. For what it's worth, I didn't dislike it.
November 6, 2022
رائعة ومثيرة ومؤثرة
May 19, 2024
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I am a big fan of disaster films with Airport 77' being a personal favourite, which is surprising, as most people credit Airport 75' the best of the series, but I would argue Jack Lemmon in an unusually tough heroic role trumps Karen Black as the panicked stewardess trying to hold it together, because when someone on board yells "Oh My God, the Stewardess is flying the plane", she really wasn't, and Charlton Heston had to climb into the cockpit to land it.
The 1970's were when 747's were the grandest commercial planes. Millionaire Philip Stevens has invited a collection of friends and partners aboard the inaugural flight of his luxurious custom designed private Boeing 747, along with priceless museum pieces enroute to Florida. Veteran pilot Dan Gallagher, along with lead stewardess Eve and the passengers do not know a few of the crew have planned to knock everyone out with sleeping gas and lower the plane off the radar, landing on an island to unload the priceless art cargo. They might have done too, if the plane didn't veer too far off course, and deep in the fog hit a signal tower, sending it careening into the ocean of the Bermuda Triangle. When everyone wakes up, the leaking plane is resting on the ocean floor - they must somehow get a message to the surface and hope rescue arrives, before the oxygen wears out.
I didn't notice when I bought this, but it is a novelization by Michael Scheff and David Spector based on their screenplay, and novelizations of films do not interest me. If this was a novel previous to being a film, I feel it has more merit - there are subtleties that add to a story, whereas this is exactly the same as the film, point for point. However, it's still a terrific story and those who have not seen the film, and/or, for those completists of airplane crisis novels like myself will find a terrific adventure with lots of tension, solid characters, and believable rescue attempts based on actual Navy techniques. It's worth reading, but for me personally, I know the story too well, and this did not divert or expound upon it. Taken on it's own it stands, and overall it's an exciting addition to the airplane-in-distress genre.
I am a big fan of disaster films with Airport 77' being a personal favourite, which is surprising, as most people credit Airport 75' the best of the series, but I would argue Jack Lemmon in an unusually tough heroic role trumps Karen Black as the panicked stewardess trying to hold it together, because when someone on board yells "Oh My God, the Stewardess is flying the plane", she really wasn't, and Charlton Heston had to climb into the cockpit to land it.
The 1970's were when 747's were the grandest commercial planes. Millionaire Philip Stevens has invited a collection of friends and partners aboard the inaugural flight of his luxurious custom designed private Boeing 747, along with priceless museum pieces enroute to Florida. Veteran pilot Dan Gallagher, along with lead stewardess Eve and the passengers do not know a few of the crew have planned to knock everyone out with sleeping gas and lower the plane off the radar, landing on an island to unload the priceless art cargo. They might have done too, if the plane didn't veer too far off course, and deep in the fog hit a signal tower, sending it careening into the ocean of the Bermuda Triangle. When everyone wakes up, the leaking plane is resting on the ocean floor - they must somehow get a message to the surface and hope rescue arrives, before the oxygen wears out.
I didn't notice when I bought this, but it is a novelization by Michael Scheff and David Spector based on their screenplay, and novelizations of films do not interest me. If this was a novel previous to being a film, I feel it has more merit - there are subtleties that add to a story, whereas this is exactly the same as the film, point for point. However, it's still a terrific story and those who have not seen the film, and/or, for those completists of airplane crisis novels like myself will find a terrific adventure with lots of tension, solid characters, and believable rescue attempts based on actual Navy techniques. It's worth reading, but for me personally, I know the story too well, and this did not divert or expound upon it. Taken on it's own it stands, and overall it's an exciting addition to the airplane-in-distress genre.
April 25, 2014
تدور أحداث الرواية حول ابتكار طائرة مدنية جديدة من قبل أحد الأثرياء... يدعو الثري أصدقائه لتجربة الطائرة والاحتفال.. أثناء التجربة تتعرض الطائرة للاختطاف... لتؤدي النتيجة بتحطم جزء من الطائرة وغرقها في أحد المحيطات... وتبدأ رحلة الصراع بغية إنقاذ حياة الركاب... فما الذي ستؤول إليه الأحداث؟؟
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