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Back To Future

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This book is wonderful and should be read by any Back to the Future trlogy fan. It is a must-read book filled with action and contains a couple of differences with the movie that were probably original ideas not used in the final film.

This novelization by George Gipe delves even deeper into the characters of the superb movie than did the movie itself (as difficult as that is). There are, however, some differences from the movie; Gipe must have been given a different version of the script than the final, shooting edition. Overall, recommended.

It's been a long time since I read a movie novelization. They are kinda artless but are usually adapted from the complete screenplay written immediately before production and thus have more character detail. The best period for novelizations was, without a doubt, the 80s, when better authors tried hard to make someone else's creation their own.

George Gipe (who also wrote Gremlins before he died of a bee sting in 1986) does great at putting us in the minds of Marty, Doc, and George in the first 60-year round-trip of this popular trilogy. The story zips along with not a single dull moment, fully detailing the world we've seen on-screen many times. It's definitely a new way to experience a familiar adventure.

The book is long OOP, but I don't understand something with a brand name as popular as this isn't still in print. Surely keeping BTTF on the shelfs (and on Kindle too, if you're that way inclined) is a financially viable thing to do. Either way, hunt it down.

A picture is worth a thousand words... or is it? Back to the Future is my favorite movie of all time. When I found out there was a book based on the screenplay I was very excited. After reading the book I came to the conclusion that the book was much better. But it was as good as any book that's based on a movie could be. It is impossible to beat the music, the effects, the sets, and acting with Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd who play the famous Marty McFly and Doc Brown. I suggest you see the movie first because you can play the movie in your head while you are reading the book. The book, as most books do go into detail more about the characters. If you have seen the new special edition remade trilogy there are deleted scenes, some of which are in the book! Also in the special edition DVD trilogy you can select commentary while watching the movie. Overall I highly recommend the book for people who have seen the movie and like it.

This is an essential for any "Back To the Future" Fan. It is based on an earlier version of the movie script, so there are some scenes in the book that are not in the movie. For example, in the movie Marty is given detention, but we are never shown him in detention. The book shows Marty getting out of detention in a very ingenious way.

Admittedly, these novelizations were more fun-and more necessary-before the advent of VCRs and DVDs. These books allowed you to replay the movies in your head, being shepherded and prompted by the book.

There is a charm to the "Back To The Future" franchise. It has classical elements of fate and an new twist on the Oedipus Complex. The city of Hill Valley becomes a character in its own right.

Wow, this was pretty bad. Very different from the movie. The character's personalities were very strange and off-putting. Doc was much more "normal" and less eccentric and slightly off of reality the way Christopher Lloyd played him. Movie Doc was a real character and not your average run-of-the-mill inventor; you could believe this strange man might have invented a time machine! Book Doc...? Hardly.

Book Marty was, I don't know, kinda bland, a little smarter and much less reactionary. What made Movie Marty so fun to follow was you felt like he was caught up in this whirlwind and never quite thought ahead, just kinda went with what came his way. Seemed much more realistic to be overwhelmed and in a state of perpetual awe over the situation than Book Marty who is so blase about it all that stops in to watch a movie at the theater for example!

While the basic plotline was the same, vast differences in the book really changed the tone, pace and characters - and not in a good way. While interesting to read purely from a comparative stand point, the book itself is a very poor shadow of the brilliance of the movie. Reading the book you can't see Michael J. Fox or Christopher Lloyd at all in the characters and that's a real shame since those two are pure genius in the film. It really brings home how much they brought to the movie and how it just wouldn't be magic without them.

Lightning clearly doesn't strike twice and this book is a sad, pale copy of one of the all-time best movies.

This is a good book, I always like to read the book and watch the movie together.

Books that come from movies either enrich the story or fall short of it. I think this book did both. It added things that weren't there in the movie, but lacked the natural charm that Michael J. Fox brought to the story. There are many original fine time travel novels out there worth taking a look at, like "Timeline" by Michael Crichton or "Twilight" by Nicholas Stember, both excellent reads.

O.k. the real reason that I picked this book, Back to the Future is because I thought It would be a easy book since I've seen the moviw a thousand times. When I started reading it though the I noticed that something was different about it.
I liked this book so much that there is realy know certin section that I could possibley choose. I guess the reason it is, is because the book was in so much then the movie. It explained stuff that I never saw.
If you seen the movie you know that when the movie starts it begins where Marty walks in to docs house and blows up a huge speaker. In the book though it starts out with Marty already in school sitting in class. Even though there was alot of stuff added, I think my favoritr part is still where when doc. jumps from the clock tower and the lightning strikes just a Marty goes back in time.