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Friday the 13th Part II: A Novel

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This book is an entertaining read. It follows the film to the exact. Oddly, the cover of the book features the movie poster art of the 1980 orginal film rather than the poster for Part 2. Anyway, a good book to collect if you can get your hands on it since it was the best of all the sequels.

"Friday the 13th, Part II", by Simon Hawke, is a faithful adaptation of the film that is one of the best in the Friday cycle. This book is arguably better than its 1987 predecessor and goes into great detail when people are getting killed. It also describes the details of Jason's birth and drowning and the conflict that he feels over his mother. If you can find a copy of this rare paperback, I strongly suggest you buy it and keep it, because this book is becoming increasingly rarer. Happy reading, Jason fans!

For a brief period of time it appeared that Jason Lives adaptor Simon Hawke would be writing novelizations of the entire Friday the 13th film series, but thankfully he never made it past Part 2. After all, there is far better material for novels out there. This 'novel' is really nothing more than the film in book form, fans hoping that it might contain the sequel's pre-final cut expanded ending will come away disappointed. I sure did.