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Post by The Doctor on Jun 15, 2016 20:30:38 GMT
I came across a novelisation of the Warcraft film in the library today and felt compelled to take it out as such a book always makes me feel nostalgic for when I was a child and it seemed like every film had a book of it. It was just something I expected. It's a much more rare thing now for obvious reasons (films are easily available in home video formats not long after the cinema run and the internet now exists) but something that has been lost a bit.
Anyone have any favourites?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 15, 2016 21:23:32 GMT
I see, adaptations as opposed to tie-ins set in the same universe?
I don't think I have to be honest. I like the idea of novelisations adding extra bits, like the way you get deleted scenes on disc releases these days, but I can only think of series that have 'expanded on' as being memorable - like Bill McCay's Stargate books, K W Jeter's Blade Runner ones and Splinter of the Mind's Eye. Not actual novelisations of films.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 15, 2016 21:40:12 GMT
Obviously the Star Wars adaptations, especially A New Hope & ESB.
I loved the first four Trek Movie novelisations.
My first exposure to Alien was the novel.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 17, 2016 22:34:01 GMT
The 1989 Batman novel by Craig Shaw Gardner was a favourite of mine.
Andy
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Post by Benn on Jun 18, 2016 9:06:48 GMT
I liked all the Alien ones, especially as they added stuff. Aliens bugged me a little because Alan Dean Foster removed all the swearing for some reason...
Oh, not Resurrection, I don't even know if there was one...
I know I've got all the first six Star Wars books, and I've read the first Star Trek book, and one that novelised some episodes of the TV series. What else...
Krull. I know I had Krull.
I'm sure I had loads, why can't I remember?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 18, 2016 18:35:41 GMT
Liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark novelisation as well
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 18, 2016 21:59:50 GMT
A favourite of mine used to be the book of The Abyss but I can't read it again since I learned about the author's views on people.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jun 18, 2016 22:08:45 GMT
Yeah... I'm in much the same boat. I read it a good many years ago - long before I saw the film, and the extra material (some of it apparently based on extensive dossiers that Cameron had given to the main actors on their characters) really does go an awful long way to fleshing them out. Unfortunately, as you say, the subsequent reveal of his personal views has put his material beyond the pale for me too.
I still have a great affection for Alan Dean Foster's Alien and Aliens novelisations though - really good examples of the art they are. The latter book gave me a marvelously unexpected laugh as well. There is a paragraph relatively early on where the author comments on what Jones the Cat's reaction to the marines getting ambushed in the Atmosphere Processor is, and not only is it genuinely funny in a black humour sort of way but also rings very true of a lot of cats I have known over the years. (Dogs are man's best friend, they'll stand by you against the monster to the end - especially things like Labs - Cats... Cats will just look you in the eye as if to say "I can outrun you..."...(
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 17, 2016 8:55:01 GMT
The Warcraft novelisation was alas a tad perfunctionery.
-Ralph
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