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Final Destination III: The Movie

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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.

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.

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.

I loved the movie, and I started obsessing over it and when I found out there was a book I just had to get it. So I did, and I was extremely happy with it. It described the characters very well, and the words and how Christa Faust worded everything was just amazing. I read little sections of the book all the time, just like I watch the movie all the time. Very good book overall. If you loved the movie, or any other movie from the series and haven't seen the third, I suggest you do and read the book. People who loved FD3 will love this.

This book was an effortless read. The author develops the characters very well and makes them way more interesting than they were in the movie. She even goes the extra mile and develops characters responsible for starting off the chain reactions that lead to the deaths, which makes the events a little more tragic.

The only complaints I can think of is that pretty much every woman in the book is surprisingly beautiful, no matter how old they are. That gets a little repetetive after a while. And just about EVERY man is a fat slob who wants only sex and beer.

Other than those nitpicks, a great book.

This is my first review, and normally I wouldn't write one, but I felt like it was due-time.
I got this book figuring that the reviews online seemed very high for a movie concept so played out, so I decided to find out for myself.
I was happily surprised to find such a good read.

Christa Faust did an exlemplary job making something big out of something... well, not so big.
The characters, of which in movies nowadays get butchered (no pun intended) by stereotypes, have much more depth as each is explained. There would be no way to know these things by just watching the movie, and I'm certainly glad I read this book before seeing the movie.
I only wish that they would've added the connection between Wendy and Kevin in the movie, and shown a bit more of their anguish and confusion while missing their partners. Same with Erin's thoughts on Ian. But since it is Hollywood and all, I'm overlooking those simple things and am just thankful that the book made up for it.

To anyone who needs excitement, passion, suspense, terror, and would prefer it come from a more in depth point of view, I highly recommend this book to you.

To those of you who don't understand the title, what I'm simply saying is this book was written when the first draft (or an earlier draft at least) was the only thing available. The ending in the book is different from the ending you'll get if you see the film.

As with any book based on Final Destination, whether it be the series or the novelizations of the screenplays, there's obvious problems with the editing, which, despite it's annoyance at times, I was able to look over and easily figure out what the writer meant (although, I will say the editor might want to be much more careful in the future).

This is basically the movie with, as I said before, a different ending, a variation on one of the death scenes, and another death scene that they changed completely from the movie (which I'm glad about... the death was WAY out there, and despite it being cool, there's no way it would or could ever happen in real life). Unlike the movie we also have more character development, and, unlike Roryman seemed to realize, books go through characters feelings, hence the reason it's a book, the author just can tell what they're feeling at the moment, and not everyone cares to overlook it.

Much like you'd expect, the death scenes, despite the things I said before, are very cool. The one that they changed from the book was probably changed for fear of seeming to similar to one of the deaths in the earlier films (I won't say what happens or who it happens to for those of you who haven't seen the originals). As before, there's the Rube Goldberg-esque things leading up to the death sequences, which to me, are just as cool as the deaths themselves (this, in my opinion, is where just as much creativity comes out as does with the deaths themselves).

Overall, a good book, with a bad ending (if you like the book but don't like the ending, go ahead and go see the movie, the ending they have now is alot better), but it still comes out as strong as the film, if not just a bit stronger because of the actual character development, as well as some scenes that set up things you won't be able to see in the film.

Okay first of all this was a great novwel i expect this to be better then the movie! it was just great in all its stages and everything was just fantastic.


As for the other guy:its the editers fault not christa's so lay it off it was a great damn book although everyone is entitled to there own opinion thats just mine.

Wendy Christianson is a beautiful young senior and is celebrating gradation at an amusement park . Along with friends she is about board a roller coaster that will make passengers fly off and die. Trying to save her fiends she starts a big fight starting with Kevin and Lewis leading Erin to get bitch slapped and her boyfrind Ian to join in and Ashley and Ashlynn just decided to get off and a result of Frankie following. The coaster crashes killing her boyfrind and best friend and the rest of the class . Now cheating death she uses her pictures to figure out how the next person will die since the pics come out all funky lookin'. She later finds out that her sister ,Julie and her friend Perry were also on the coaster and got off. Its all death breaking loose as Ashley , Ashlynn , lewis , Ian , and Erin along with Frankie start to die in horrible ways most of them having something to do with the head. Wendy will soon find out that death will come for them!

My problem with this book is that it came out before the movie. Reading the first Final Destination novelation (6 years out after the screen debut) and now beginning the sequel, I figured I'd read this one first since I already knew what happened in the previous books and wanted to be "spoiled". Let me start off saying that both the first and second book, the dialogue is EXACTLY the same as to what the characters say in the movie. In fact, they expand around the whole entire storyline and add more feeling and thoughts that are looked past even the 50th time of watching these films.
This, I think, will fall short of the film. There are more than a few errors towards the end of the book. When Kevin goes to Jason's moms house after J-dogs funeral, the writer says "and Jason walked in" or something to that extent. I was like wth I thought he was dead, but she meant Kevin and that pissed me off.
Another thing is that they reshot the final scene involving a subway, this book involves a really dumb ending saying "it's not over yet". Okkkkk then, then DON'T publish the damn book! Also from seeing some clips on Yahoo movies, they switched the dialogue too. So this book should definitely be re-written, I was pleased that I knew what was going to happen but not pleased that they totally F'd it up.

*Note: The writer of the the first two didn't write this one, and I think she should re-write it for this chick.