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Alien

The Official Movie Novelization

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By: Alan Dean Foster
Narrated by: Peter Guinness
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Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien and Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. He is also a best-selling science fiction and fantasy author in his own right, including the popular Pip & Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series.

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I did enjoy the story, hell it's based on one of my all time favorite movies and they mostly kept to the story, but the orator left something to be desired since I couldn't always tell who he was trying to portray.

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I love the movie and I love the audible book, which is the official movie novelization, so there are no surprises here if you are a fan of the movie. The audible book is just good solid writing and storytelling, which I found highly entertaining.

Ripley kicks alien butt!

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Surely everyone has seen the film? So you know the characters. Well, they don't make it through this reading. The delivery is robbed of emotion and suspense. It's kind of like listening to the narration on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, not as much emotion as the book. It's hard to believe someone could have seen the film and then deliver such a downbeat and homogeneous reading. The characters were sort of recognizable.

Little has changed from the movie, but some things have. But just small things. If you demanded an example, avoiding spoilers... well a scene in the mess that was opto-hydraulic in the film is all printed circuit boards and wires in the book. Which is like going back to the steam age. It doesn't detract from the story.

It is interesting to have the internal dialogue from the characters. It adds to the story and makes up for some of what the delivery removed. With a different narrator this would be a five star experience, like the movie.

Flattened by the performance

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This is a perfectly serviceable adaptation. It’s not better or worse than watching the movie but thoroughly enjoyed myself.

A great adaptation…

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It had all the fright and fear from the film and that great uniqueness and depth and detail that a book has over a film. I really enjoyed that the book did not focus on Ripley and instead gave attention to every character on the Nostromo. My favorite character to spend time with was Ash and the absolutely loved the backstory provided throughout the book. Great experience! I highly recommend all Alien franchise fans

Excellent experience

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