Folks, I’m gonna say something, and it’s this: IMO this book is pretty bad. I would only recommend it to a dedicated completionist who simply can’t bear to leave any stone unturned, or maybe to people who will simply always prefer books to movies.
And here is my take from a post in the dying days of kbin.social. I have read more of it than I had then (probably about a quarter to a third of it), and if the trudge of the plot is often workmanlike enough, I stand by what I said for the passages that are trotted out as something special, but they are not. If anything, they’re the worst parts of it. It’s a work-for-hire adaption of a script that is the worst part of a mediocre movie, one that commits most of the same watchability sins as AOTC. Stover didn’t have much to work with, and maybe sensing that, he overplayed his hand stylistically.
Folks, I’m gonna say something, and it’s this: IMO this book is pretty bad. I would only recommend it to a dedicated completionist who simply can’t bear to leave any stone unturned, or maybe to people who will simply always prefer books to movies.
HERE is a nice and legal link to some of it.
And here is my take from a post in the dying days of kbin.social. I have read more of it than I had then (probably about a quarter to a third of it), and if the trudge of the plot is often workmanlike enough, I stand by what I said for the passages that are trotted out as something special, but they are not. If anything, they’re the worst parts of it. It’s a work-for-hire adaption of a script that is the worst part of a mediocre movie, one that commits most of the same watchability sins as AOTC. Stover didn’t have much to work with, and maybe sensing that, he overplayed his hand stylistically.