Location:Dunseith, North Dakota
Description:Hard Cover. Good/Good. Ex-Library. BASIS FOR THE MOVIE THE TOWERING INFORNO. 374 PAGES. When Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox decided to make their own high rise disaster pic, one picked The Tower and the other The Glass Inferno they realized they each will be making similar movies. So in a rare instance of common sense, the two studio combined resources and churned out The Towering Inferno. Despite having the movie based on the two novels, the end result resemble more on The Glass Inferno rather than The Tower. In fact, the only thing the movie retain from The Tower was the breeches bouy and several characters, some of which have their own counterparts in The Glass Inferno. If you have seen The Towering Inferno, then you will know what the novel is about. Of course, the novel doesnt have the stupid insipid dialogue the movie was saddled with. And The Glass Infnero ends on a brighter note that the movie. As a point of interest, the building is known as the Glass Tower, 66 stories high and equipped with a scenic elevator and a promenade room. And Jennifer Jones character, Lisolette Mueller, who enjoyed a spectacular death scene in the movie, survived in the novel in her own spectacular way (she climbed down the blown stariwell BY HERSELF without help and with a kid on her back). Overall, the book is good, espcially how chapters are devoted to the fire itself describing it as the beast, and chronicling it from its birth with a cotton string as its umbilical cord, and to its death.as if the fire was a living entity in itself.