Final Destination III: The Movie [Mass Market Paperback]

Christa Faust (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Black Flame (January 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1844163199
• ISBN-13: 978-1844163199
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,657,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you liked the movie, read the book, February 24, 2006

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Charles Hoffman (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Final Destination III: The Movie (Mass Market Paperback)

I bought this book because I had been impressed with Christa Faust's previous novel, Control Freak. I ended up seeing the movie only after reading the novelization. Despite good acting by the young cast and the occasional glimmer of intelligent dialogue, Final Destination 3, the movie, is essentially a Grand Guignol croak-a-thon. In the novelization, the author attempts to build on the source material. Having undertaken the project for purely commercial reasons, she nevertheless endeavors to bring as much artistry to the work as possible.

The story concerns a group of graduating high school seniors. The author begins by stripping away the layers of teen stereotypes --jock, brain, popular girl, etc.-- to reveal the more intimate goals, wishes and aspirations of each. The teens are poised on the threshhold of adulthood and faced with important choices concerning their future -a future that is fated never to arrive. As in other installments of the series, the characters have escaped certain death, and now Death itself stalks unseen about them, hunting them down. The teens are in the palm of the Grim Reaper's hand, helpless as the bony fingers begin to close about them. Also worth noting is the undercurrent of sexual tension between the two lead characters as they struggle against their doom.

The older I get, the more it pains me to read or hear of the death of a young person. In Final Destination 3, Christa Faust takes a B-movie horror flick and makes of it a tragic tale of young life plundered and looted by an inscrutable and malevolent Fate.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book Overall, February 19, 2006

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Ryan Wicks "Ryan Wix" (OH, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Final Destination III: The Movie (Mass Market Paperback)

I chose this book for an english project. Within the first few days i read the majority of the book. It's definately a page turner. The deaths are pretty interesting, some of them far fetched but hey it's just a book. The author vividly describes the scenes of the deaths. The book and movie are different (especially the endings) and you should read/see them both. I think that I actually enjoyed the book more than I enjoyed the movie. See for yourself, read it.

5.0 out of 5 stars No One Does It Better!, August 15, 2011

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Andrew Salmon (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Final Destination III: The Movie (Mass Market Paperback)

It's not often that a reader gets excited about the novelization of a movie script. Such beasts tend to be bland, dull affairs. But, then again, most are not written by Christa Faust!

This lady knows how to bring a movie script to life. She takes what was, for me, a run of the mill horror MOVIE and makes a solid, enjoyable, fast-paced horror NOVEL! I give it my highest recommendation. Faust breathes life into the characters, all of them! They become real people you like and dislike and, thus, you care what happens to them. They aren't just fodder for fate/devil/death. No one-dimensional types in these pages.

Like her incredible double horror shot in the Twilight Zone book from Black Flame, Faust has pulled off another winner. If you've read her award winning novelization of Snakes on a Plane, then you know what I'm talking about.

Disregard the background of this one. If you see a copy, grab it! Black Flame is no more and Christa Faust's work for them is getting harder and harder to find. She has become a crime novelist of note and has a bright future ahead of her. You'll see why once you've finished this one. If you're a horror fan, then this one is for you. It will not disappoint.