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[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

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.