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The Glass Inferno - Thomas N. Scortia

Description: ISBN 0340207469 / Author: Thomas N. Scortia / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Newest Review: ... by flames or smoke. Can the maverick fire-fighter work miracles to prevent the entire building from being destroyed or will ... more

... the poor workmanship cause the disaster to be far worse than anyone could have imagined? I actually found this book to be surprisingly compelling but also surprisingly dated. Having read ‘The Tower’ I was ready for more average action tat. However, ‘The Glass Inferno’ avoids this tag by introducing us to the story, characters and action at a much better pace. Scortia and his co writer have written this book so that the real fire does not start until about half way. The first part of the book is spent increasing t...more

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The Glass Inferno - Thomas N. Scortia: People in Glass Towers Shoudn't Light Fires (962 words)
by samueltyler - written on 23/02/07 (Very useful, 154 readings)
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During the 1970s there was a huge rise in the popularity of the disaster movie. Films like ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ and ‘Earthquake’ were able to draw a host of big name stars to kill off one by one. Perhaps the most famous of these movies was ‘The Towering Inferno’ that brought together two of the most notable leading men of all time in Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. Famously this was a turbulent shoot as both men struggled to get their names first on the posters and even had McQueen demanding the same number of lines (that’s why he says a lot of gibberish in the film). The reason that having two leads was possible came about because the film took parts from two ...

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