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Richard Martin Stern Thrillers and Suspense English
Author: Richard Martin Stern
ISBN13: 978-0330242332
Title: The Towering Inferno
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Language: English
Category: Thrillers and Suspense
Publisher: Pan Books Ltd; 1st edition (1974)
Pages: 303

The Towering Inferno by Richard Martin Stern



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Richard Martin Stern. This is the incredible suspense novel that inspired the famous movie The Towering Inferno staring Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and William Holden. The World Communications Center is a glittering skyscraper that is fatally flawed in its design, compromised through dubious means. On opening night the building's systems fail spectacularly and the structure descends into violence and chaos, trapping the VIP guests of a gala opening celebration

Richard Martin Stern, an award-winning author whose book ''The Tower'' was part of the basis for the 1974 movie ''The Towering Inferno,'' died on Oct. 31 at his home here. He was 86. His declining health was worsened by the recent death of his wife, Dorothy, said his daughter, Mary Elisabeth Vinton. Mr. Stern wrote more than 20 mystery and suspense novels as well as short stories for Colliers and The Saturday Evening Post magazines. Two books, ''The Tower,'' and ''The Glass Inferno'' by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank.

Richard Martin Stern was an American novelist. Stern began his writing career in the 1950s with mystery tales of private investigators In 1959 his novel The Bright Road to Fear won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Stern is remembered for his 1973 novel The Tower, in which a fire engulfs a new metal-and-glass frame skyrise. Stern was inspired to write the novel by the construction of the World Richard Martin Stern was an American novelist

1973) (The Towering Inferno) A novel by Richard Martin Stern. Used availability for Richard Martin Stern's The Tower. November 1973 : UK Hardback. 1974 : USA Mass Market Paperback.

Richard Martin Stern allows us a good glimpse of human nature at its best and worst. Thanks to an efficient prose that takes you from one place and time to another with mastery, this book keeps a good pace. A must read for fans of The Towering Inferno.

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Richard Martin Stern (March 17, 1915 in Fresno, California – October 31, 2001 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American novelist. Stern began his writing career in the 1950s with mystery tales of private investigators, winning a 1959 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, for The Bright Road to Fear. He was most notable for his 1973 novel The Tower, in which a fire engulfs a new metal-and-glass frame skyrise.

Richard Martin Stern, 86, an award-winning author whose book "The Tower" was a basis for the 1974 movie "The Towering Inferno," died Oct. 31 at his home in Santa Fe, . Born in Fresno, a fourth-generation Californian, Stern attended Harvard and lived in New York City, where he began writing short stories for Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post. His first book, "The Bright Road to Fear" in 1958, won the Edgar Award in 1959 for best first novel

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Reviews: 7
SiIеnt
Despite several nits, and for the most part knowing the plot and ending, I enjoyed this book.

I felt some of the dialog was clunky, and the foreshadowing of character intentions was predictable. The number of characters and keeping track of who is saying made for slower reading for me.

The "monster" of the story - the fire - is surprisingly not given too much treatment. You know it's happening, you know it's spreading, but very little is told of how the blaze is being battled, what the firemen are encountering, how it's spreading, etc. I found the Governor character to be remarkable, but the woman companion seems to exist to say the right thing at the right time. Why is present at the party, her motivations, her background is very scant.

While I was expecting something very similar to screenplay of 'The Towering Inferno", I was pleasantly surprised by some plot developments and the additional characters.

I felt the ending was lacking, but serviceable.
Duktilar
I read this because I love "Towering Inferno" and this was one of the 2 books the movie was based on. While I was just a little disappointed that the actual fire was more in the background thanI had hoped for..it's not an action thriller, I did like how it dealt with the individual character's emotional reactions as the fire escalated so it wasn't simply about a big fire. I wish I could find the "Glass Inferno " as well but I really did enjoy this one for it's emotional impact.
Flower
A superbly written novel that goes into great character and situation development. I felt as I was there whilst reading the novel.
Tenius
You saw parts of The Towering Inferno (movie) in this story. I like how they combined the Glass Inferno and the Tower together to make a great movie. Maybe this is one of those movies that can be redone like they've done with The Posidon.
Wizer
I came across this while looking for something to buy in the Amazon book store. It makes you realize how vulnerable these skyscrapers can be if corners are cut to save costs. It is an older novel, but still relevant in Today's world. Please give it a try.
Cha
"The Tower" provided the suspenseful plot and approximate building height for the movie, "The Towering Inferno" -- but the blockbuster movie wisely left this book's unsatisfactory characters and dialogue behind.

In "The Tower," a corrupt electrical contractor builds the world's tallest firetrap, and a deranged worker sets off an electrical surge that turns the lower-Manhattan skyscraper into a towering you-know-what.

Strong on technical details and a grim sense of foreboding, the book unfortunately falls short in character development: There is too much of it at exactly the wrong moments. Worse, the characters seem less than fully developed: Several characters speak with a similar vocabulary and rhythm, as if the author could not give them common human distinctiveness. Instead of allowing character actions and expressions to speak for themselves, the author spends inordinate time telling us (via narration) about several characters that are really little more than shallow early-Seventies cliches: an amoral feminist wife, a maverick governor, an Irish cop. As a result, any dramatic buildup is repeatedly knocked down by stretches of ponderous reading.

Thankfully, the book is stronger in basic plot than the book to which it is often compared: "The Glass Inferno," which served as half the inspiration of "The Towering Inferno." The notion of an electrical fire erupting throughout The Tower's 125-story building is, frankly, more compelling than The Glass Inferno's storage-closet fire in a 66-story building. And The Tower's rather dark conclusion is now -- given certain real-world events -- more plausible than Inferno's heroic waterlogged climax.

I first read this book as a teen-ager in the 1970s, and read it again recently. Then and now, this book's characters were forgettable, but its grim vision of the outcome of a major skyscraper fire haunted me afterward.
Hrguig
Richard Martin Stern allows us a good glimpse of human nature at its best and worst. Thanks to an efficient prose that takes you from one place and time to another with mastery, this book keeps a good pace. A must read for fans of The Towering Inferno.
Great novel, which became an exciting movie. Now out of print, but if you're into reading good novels from the past, it's available from multiple booksellers in used form, and is highly recommended.
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