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Old 05-29-2011, 01:40 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by Hamlet53 View Post
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As far as On the Beach (which I did read a long time ago) my opinion is that it is dated and of pulp fiction quality.
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Yeah, pulp fiction. I had to go there and see what the expression actually means. Clockwork Orange could go there also.

IMMO, Nevil Shute might have reached his peak with No Highway.

from Wikipedia
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The novel contains many of the ingredients that made Shute popular as a novelist, and, like several other of Shute's later novels, includes an element of the supernatural.
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Shute's fictional account of a new airliner design being subject to mechanical failure due to metal fatigue after a certain number of flight cycles presaged the similar failures of the de Havilland Comet airliner just six years later. There are many parallels between the novel and the later real-life disasters, surely the result of one aeronautical engineer/author working out the possibilities, which a real and similar design then experienced. (A coincidence has been observed between the aircraft names, the fictional Reindeer and the real-life Comet, "Comet" being in poetry the name of one of Santa Claus's reindeer, but the Comet was named for the prewar de Havilland DH.88 racing aircraft.)
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