Transformers
by Alan Dean Foster
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Author: Alan Dean FosterBrand: gkworld
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-29
ISBN: 0345497996
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Del Rey
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Book Review: 4-star sci-fi tale, plus 1 star for managing to do it with awful source material
Summary: 5 Stars
Did you see the "Transformers" movie and feel an overwhelming sense of disappointment? Did you think that a story with giant alien robots from another planet should be a bit more... cooler? Were you wishing they would have cut a lot of the useless scenes and spent more time on the dialog and characters and interactions? I did, and this book was the story I wanted to see.
The jerky pacing is smoothed out, the multiple story lines (which didn't get enough screen time in the movie to be useful) are detailed out here and actually serve a purpose. The characters have more depth and better senses of humor. Things that frankly did not make sense in the movie are given reasonable, coherent explanation by the author. And that laughable technobabble which had my programmer boyfriend groaning in the theater was simply cut. In short, Alan Dean Foster took a really bad screenplay and made a really good sci-fi yarn from it. (The only thing I miss is the fantastic ILM transformation effects which get scant description in the book, maybe because the author didn't get to see what they looked like?)
I don't know how it will play to the Transformers fanboys, since I never was one (I was playing with My Little Pony at the time), but I highly recommend that people give this a try. Hey, it cost less than my movie ticket and I enjoyed it a lot more.
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