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4.0 out of 5 stars
Worthy basis for the great film "The Towering Inferno", 27 July 2004
This book was what formed most of the basis of the film "The Towering Inferno". If you havent seen it, it follows a group of people who are stuck in a huge skyscraper that goes up in flames and keeps you on the edge of your seat as you see who will survive and who wont."The Glass House" has a fiar few of the films characters in it (although some are under different names) as well as a bunch of charcters that were not included in the film version. Each of the characters are well detailed and documented but they are all introduced with heavy slants on them pushing you to think "I'm doing wrong, I'm going to die" and "I'm a good guy, I will survive". Sadly from that, you can predict many of the characters outcomes within their introductuary paragraph. My main problem however was that there were very few characters you actually cared about as so many of them are portrayed negatively. The next problem was that at every oppertunity the book was (quite rightly) lay down morality in health and safety standards. The message hits home wihthout it being drummed into your head for the first 170 pages! Finally, if you have seen the film, you might find yourself dissapointed with the lack of action sequences as strangely, many of great oppertunities to crank up the tension were not in this book. Despite my buggings, this is a great read for disaster movie fans. Some of it is a little dated in context but it held my attention from start to finish and there is still bucket loads of tension and drama. Probably more for fans of the film though
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