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The Butterfly Effect (New Line Cinema)

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This was one of the best books that I have read in a very long time! I wanted to read it before seeing the movie and now I can't wait to see it! I couldn't put the book down once I started it. The plot was so intriging and each page makes you want to move to the next to see what was going to happen! The storyline interweaves itself so well and is fascinating and complex in the aspect of how one scene in the beginning of the book suddenly reappears in another scene later in the book. When this happens, all I could think of was "wow!"
The characters are so believable and it is so easy to "live" through each one. I highly recommend this to everyone! It is a book that could easily be read several times over!

I read this book before watching the movie and loved it. I would recommend if you watch it on DVD to watch the theatrical version to get the same ending as the book. I watched the directors version first and was disappointed in the ending. However, the movie is very good much like the book.

I saw the movie first, and for once the movie was better than the book. Ok, so the book was based on the movie which explains alot. I bought this book because I really loved the movie. However, there was something lacking in the book. I felt that there needed to be more connections between the reader and the characters. In other words, I wanted to care about them more, get to know them more in a way you only can in a book, not in a movie. However, it never quite gets there, it feels like you are just watching the movie.

As I said, I really enjoyed the movie, so this book was ok. There was just something missing.

Even if you've seen the movie, read this excellent book. A real page-turner!

The butterfly effect refers to the interconnectedness of the world. In other words, a butterfly flapping its wings in China could cause a hurricane on the other side of the world. But this book really deals with the Bradbury Effect as in his A Sound of Thunder where the death of a butterfly in the distant path has unknowable effects on the present.

In this book we have a character with a very messed-up life. Not only is his family dysfunctional (dad is in the nut house), but he has blackouts and does very disturbing things.

The book takes a long time to get started by filling in tons of background history. Eventually we get to the point where our character learns he can effect things in the past. Usually to disastrous effects. He keeps trying to correct things but they keep getting worse.

So, will he be able to make things better? Unfortunately two things stand in his way. One is that "time travel" is bad for his brain. The other is that people think he is crazy and want to lock him up.

So we wind up with a series of bad lives that we stop caring about after a while. We also learn a bit about his talent (although not enough). Finally we get a cute, romantic-comedy-style ending.

But my big question is if he had total blackouts, how was he able to write about the events in his journals? We don't know how much of the events he managed to transcribe, but at least with the video camera incident we do see that he wrote about things he didn't remember and then didn't remember he wrote about them. Too weak for me.

This is a long book for a novelization of a movie aimed at this audience and it just doesn't work or interest. I am sure it could work for readers who don't care about the details (sort of like viewers who made Armageddon successful). As a movie novelization, the author obviously did some work to fill out the story. I can only suspect that the movie has to rush through many of the events in the book.

I give it three stars for the author's efforts to fill out the story (it's not his fault the story didn't work in the first place).

Soooooo, Good. See the move then read the book, it makes it easier to read casue you havefaces to the names and that makes it better plue the book has more details and is better if you missed te small details of the story, plus with the book you can "rewind or fast forward stop or slow down anything" J/K

I have read tons of books and I have to say that this is my favorite! It's the tale of a man named Evan (Kutcher in the movie) who tries to restore the childhood of a loved one, Kayleigh (Smart in the movie), so they may live together forever in happiness. They had a rough childhood. Evan finds a way to change the outcome of things using his journals. Will Kayleigh and Evan ever live happily ever after? You'll just have to read and find out!

This has to be the best book I've read all year - what do you mean I still have another 10 months to go?! Surely nothing can beat this book!

I originally saw the trailer for this on the Freddy vs Jason DVD, and instantly said "I need to see that movie". And then I was in a book store, looking for another book (which I didn't get), and I spotted this book! And it followed me to the till, so I just had to buy it, after it walked all that way. OK, I'm being sarcastic.

I tend to read the books, and want to see the film, or vice versa. And normally I'm disappointed by one of them. (Carrie by Stephen King is nowhere near as good as the film) I have quite a few books based on films, or films based on books, and this is definitely another one to add to my collection. And bring out again if I ever get to see the film.

This is a fantastic book. All the loose ends are tied up at the end of the book, and you find yourself going "aaaaaahhhhhhhh, that's what that was supposed to mean" when the pieces start slotting together.

There are some sections I can't see working in the film - such as the first 150+ pages are 7 & 13 year old Evan. And I'm sorry, Ashton Kutcher doesn't pass for those ages!!! So I'm a bit iffy if that will work in the film - it'd better be in the film, a lot of the story is in this section.

There's also quite a few interesting points in the book too, which has my little brain ticking over. There's one specific point on page 215, where the grown-up, present Evan says that when you make a decision, whatever the other decision is, gets made in a parallel universe - OK, the book can say it better! But you get my drift. I'm one of these weird people who gets freaked out by all that kinda thing, that there's parallel universes, that such simple decisions can change the rest of your life, or going back in time and changing something so tiny, can cause so many drastic changes - thank God we can't go back in time ... yet!!! (Just imagine what could happen)

This is a terrific book, I will be recommending it to a lot of people. Not that they will read it, but never mind. It's good. It's unputdownable. (That's a word) And now I need to see the movie. And not drool over Ashton Kutcher - although he does look rather nice with the stubble on the poster! OK, I've had too long a day at work, I'm going crazy.

This book is one of the best books I've read in a long time. It makes you wonder what you would do if you were Evan Treborn if you had his life.

When Evan was younger he began to write notebooks. Now those notebooks come in handy when he needs to go in the past to save his only love, Kayleigh Miller. His life is turned upside down when he blocked out all of his extreme emotional moments of the past. Now he must live through them where he can pause, slow down, rewind, and fast forward. He promised her he'd be back for her but know he must decide how to let go.

I just bought the book and I haven't had the chance to read it yet. But I went and saw the movie yesterday. It's Incredible!!! The best movie I have seen in years. I can't wait to read the book.