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Title: X-Men 2 by Chris Claremont ISBN: 0-345-46196-7 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent, one of the best movie novelizations I've read!
Comment: I'm a really big movie fan and because I also love to read, I love to read movie novelizations. If a novelization is written well, it's such a pleasure to read more about your favorite movie characters, how the were feeling during certain parts of the movie, plus get to find out lots of extra trivia. And I must say, "X-Men 2" was written exceptionally well!
"X-Men: A Novelization" is a novelization from the 2000 action packed movies starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellan. Genetic mutants are very real in the 'not too distant future'. Made outcasts from societies, these mutants are rejected, feared, and hated for their superhuman powers. Some mutants want to strike out against mankind, these mutants being led by the powerful Magneto. But then again, there are some mutants who uses their special abilities for the greater. They battle against prejudice and agents of intolerance to save mankind, these mutants are the X-Men. But now there is a new enemy whose cunning and evil plan may lead to the destruction of all mutants and until the enemy is stopped, no one is safe...
First off I would like to say that I've never been an X-Men fan, never even have read any of the comics. It was only recently that I saw the movie "X-Men", read the first X-Men novelization, then saw "X-2". I found the movies a totally must-see experience! So naturally I wanted to pick up the novelization. A great read I must say!
Compared to the first movie novelization by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, "X-Men 2" was written with a better style. Instead of focusing on just one main character, Chris Claremont delves into each and every character, from the main X-men characters to the small characters of the soldiers or police involved. The action is put into words with great care, neither hunkering it down with too many details nor shortening the action into boring little incidents.
The only major problem with this book is the ending which I'm sure other reviewers have mentioned. What exactly had happened? It's totally different from the movie! My only question is, what's going to happen when X-3 comes out, which it inevitably will. Since the movie and book endings are different, how is the X-3 movie novelization going to turn out.
Overall, I can highly recommend this book for all "X-Men" or "X-Men 2" movie fans. I'm not sure if "X-Men" comics fans might enjoy this, since I don't know if the characters are very different from the comics. The movie was rated PG-13 so I guess this book is more for older teens and adults because of some swearing, violence, and sexual innuendos.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not a novelization...literature!
Comment: This film novelization is (a) much superior to the film and (b) able to stand alone as a piece of literature. It simply is a good summer read that bogs down mainly when it is trying to describe in detail the slam-bang-blowupthedam pyrotechnics at the end of the film. Jean Grey, Logan, Scott Summers, Rogue, Eric Lehnsherr, Mystique, and the tragic Kurt Wagner are all fully-developed characters to the author Claremont, and the length of narrative and detailed dialogue that he offers is necessary to the reader's understanding of the complex people behind the superpowers. This is why there is such a thing as a 55-year-old X-Man fan, and why I'm not embarrassed to have enjoyed this book far more than the noisy but pedestrian film. Of course, it's not GREAT literature...a previous critic notes that Claremont tends to overuse metaphors and similes...but it's still a pleasure to read, and isn't that part of the literary experience?
Rating: 4
Summary: quick point re: ending
Comment: I've read somewhere that the reason the endings are different in the book and the film is delibrate...the film people are trying to keep the ending secret, and knowing the book will be released before the film, they decided to have a different ending for the book.
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Title: X-Men: A Novelization by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Ed Solomon, Christopher McQuarrie ISBN: 0345440951 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Art of X2: The Collector's Edition, Deluxe Hardcover (X2: X-Men United) by Bryan Singer, David Hayter, Zak Penn, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris, Timothy Shaner ISBN: 1557045844 Publisher: Newmarket Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Hulk by Peter David ISBN: 0345459679 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Daredevil: A Novel by Greg Cox, Mark Stephen Johnson ISBN: 0451410807 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: X-MEN 2 by Ted Conner ISBN: 0553487760 Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.50 |
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