posted
I know, it's hard to conceive, but I think I've read several:
2001: A Space Odyssey
Superman III
The Last Starfighter
Any novelization written by Alan Dean Foster*
* Yes, he's a hack, but his novelizations are bis best books. I think what it comes down to is he lacks the ability to invent stories that are not goofy, but given someone else's universe to play with, he fleshes out stories very nicely. He must have started out as a fanfic writer.
Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
Cor read that one. She says it wasn't bad. Not a ringing endorsement, but then, SW:I was the worst of the films, so it wouldn't take too much to be better.
Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
Spiderman novelization by Peter David. The movie and book were both great, but I think Peter David edged out the movie by a little.
Posts: 853 | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged |
posted
Mona Lisa Smile, it has a better ending. That's one of the few novelizations of movies I've read.
Posts: 5362 | Registered: Apr 2004
| IP: Logged |
posted
I think OSC's Abyss was great. I didn't list it because I thought the movie was very good as well, and I wasn't sure which was better, but thinking about it further, I think you're right.
Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
I called the Episode 3 novelization poorly written, but I still said it was better than some of the movies writing.
Posts: 1960 | Registered: May 2005
| IP: Logged |
posted
And I was only joking about the embarrassment: trying to make it an über-version of all the recent book and movie threads. Posts: 13680 | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged |
posted
Peter David's Hulk, Peter David's Fantastic Four... I'm seeing a trend here.
Any of the Trek movie novelizations.
I like Alan Dean Foster's movie books, the first few Spellsinger books, and I love "Mad Amos" but no one else seems to have ever read it.
Posts: 7790 | Registered: Aug 2000
| IP: Logged |
The book is not a novelization of the movie, and the movie is not based on the book.
Clarke and Kubrick both wrote the screenplay together. Clarke then went and wrote a novel based on it, and Kubrick went and made a movie based on it.
Posts: 16551 | Registered: Feb 2003
| IP: Logged |
Piers Anthony's novelization of the movie Total Recall which was based on the Philip K Dick story We can remember it for you wholesale is better than the movie. Which one was better than the movie? Well both of them, but the novel and the short story don't have much to do with each other, either.
quote:Clarke and Kubrick both wrote the screenplay together. Clarke then went and wrote a novel based on it, and Kubrick went and made a movie based on it.
I thought the book came first and Clark agreed with Kubrick to do a movie. I guess not. And the book is far better.
Posts: 684 | Registered: Jun 2002
| IP: Logged |
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
![[Confused]](confused.gif)
I thought the book came first and Clark agreed with Kubrick to do a movie. I guess not. And the book is far better.
