Alona

Wow. Just wow. That's all I have to say right now. I'm not sure that I can think. I've just finished Airport and for me it is one of the best book that come to my hands lately.

I'm already acquainted with Arthur Hailey's writing as I read his other novel Hotel and I loved it. It was a great book to start. But Airport is completely on another level. Both novels are pretty similar with slow build-up of plot, introducing the characters and very brief and not overbearing flashbacks from their past. And of course, I can not mention, how masterfully the airport setting was set up. This is the case, when there is a lot of technical information in the novel, but from it, the plot only gets richer and doesn't remind encyclopedia at all. Actually, it reminds me a lot of my favourite documentaries - X-Ray Mega Airport, Ultimate Airport Dubai and Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport.

Regarding the characters, I don't know how they could've been better written. We got to meet with a dozen of characters throughout the novel, and each of them was memorable and so real, that it felt as if I can touch them.

I don't know what to say anymore. I enjoyed the novel so much, that it seems that my ears are still ringing from all the tension of the finale.

Definitely a must read, that I can recommend to anyone who likes a great deal of suspense and aviation.

My feeling about this book is a bit controversial.

I liked a lot of things about American Gods. Almost all the historicl parts and the ending, when all the mysteries started to unravel. My favourite part was how similar the main plot was to a coin trick. I was not even thinking about the possibility of what was actually happening.

And that's a really great thing. It's good to be surprised once in a while.

But not all is good in paradise. There was a lot of stuff that I was not a fan of. For example, language. I've got truly tired of all “boobies” and “pussies”. That's why I liked the ending much, much more than the beginning. There was just not a time for all this things.

The story was so slow in the beginning. It was boring a lot. Or maybe I just wasn't in a mood for this book.

Anyway, that's not a bad book after all.