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Title: The Blair Witch Project: A Dossier by D.A. Stern ISBN: 0451199669 Publisher: Onyx Books Pub. Date: 06 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.16
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow! Chilling and entertaining page-turner...
Comment: This book is a must-read for anyone who has seen the movie... and perhaps even better for someone who hasn't yet seen the movie. It's a well-written investigative account by noted occult journalist D.A. (Dave) Stern (whose work I have often admired in other arenas), and makes the mystery of the Blair Witch project leap out of the pages in the very human accounts it relays... from the personalities involved in the investigation to the cover-ups by local police. Alternately heart-rendingly impactful, chilling, and even amusing... like the movie. Interestingly, the book is not just an account of what happens in the movie (in fact, reading the book will not spoil the movie's surprises), and the movie is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is described in the book. The book itself is in a very unusual form, not a typical narrative, more like a dossier of investigative accounts and historical background. Despite the book's substantial length and content, I sat down and read the book in one sitting, something I rarely do these days, although I ended up going to sleep at about 4AM... and I didn't want to turn off the lights.
Rating: 2
Summary: Nothing New Here.
Comment: Stern's book is unquestionably a device by Haxan to milk the undeniable popularity of the movie, and if there were no web sites devoted to the film, it would have some value to the Blair Witch curious. However, an excellent web page DOES exist, and it contains 99% of everything of value in this book, such as the historical timeline, the background stories, Heather's journal, the details of the finding of the camera bag and film, the "search" for the missing students, etc.
The only features of the book which cannot be found on the web page are the mostly-worthless interviews (all "frustrating" dead ends to our intrepid team of private investigators) and the preposterous involvement by the so-called psychic, culminating in an offensively derivative "seance" scene at the Parr house. The latter I found distasteful principally because the author teases us with the prospect of the results of a down-to-earth investigation, just to deprive us of the relevant portions of the transcripts of Buchanan's experience at the site. Thanks for nothing.
Bottom line -- if you want background on the movie, visit the web page for free. This book answers no questions and provides no information of value. Anyone who ever read one of the Star Wars novels will be familiar with the goal of this book -- provide a taste of the movie but without any effect on what the filmmakers will do next time (assuming there's a sequel/prequel).
Rating: 4
Summary: Great companion piece for the movie!!!
Comment: The movie 'Blair Witch' screened the footage that Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard and Micheal Williams made for Heather's school thesis. From the fun, frolicking beginnings of thier journey into the Black Hills, to their terrifying (supposed) demise in the strange house with written symbols inside it. This book gathers up a majority of the investigation through either interviews, local history of the Blair Witch, pictures and the best of all, Heather's Diary she was writing during their terrifying ordeal.
It helps further the mythos of the Blair Witch, is she real or not? Plus also raises the question, was it all a hoax? You will find that the book does not answer any previous questions you had about the movie, it just adds a heap more (plus it makes the storyline of the movie sequel 'Book Of Shadows' even worse). Recommended for a chilling read!!!
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Title: Blair Witch: The Secret Confession of Rustin Parr by D.A. Stern ISBN: 0743411536 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Blair Witch: Book Of Shadows by D.A. Stern ISBN: 0743411897 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 24 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Blair Witch Chronicles by Jen Van Meter, Tommy Lee Edwards, Jennifer Van Meter, Jamie S. Rich, Tom Fowler, Guy Daivs ISBN: 192999804X Publisher: Oni Press Pub. Date: 06 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Dark Room (The Blair Witch Files, Case File 2) by Cade Merrill, Megan Stine ISBN: 0553493639 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 25 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Witch's Daughter (The Blair Witch Files, Case File 1) by Cade Merrill, Carol Ellis ISBN: 0553493620 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 25 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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