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Highlander

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Back in the mid-80's I saw "The Highlander" at my local movie house and fell in love with it. The book is well written and adds some extra girth to the story that the movie (even in its uncut version) did not include. The greatest appeal about Highlander is the concept of immortality and the implications of being able to live for an infinite period (as long as your head remains attached that is). The book will keep you riveted and any lover of fantasy or science fiction would appreciate this work.

This novel is ruined by its terrible writing style. While novelisations of movies are rarely very good, the style of the writing can often make them enjoyable (for example, Donald McFarlan's novelisation of the 1995 film Rob Roy). While entertaining enough, this book is not very memorable. Kilworth could have told a great story, one perhaps even to surpass the movie (it has happened before), but as it stands it is only adequate and mildly interesting (and then probably only to "true" Highlander fans).

Highlander has been my favorite movie for years. I was really looking forward to reading this book. However, I was not very pleased with this adaption. Like most books based on movies, it does add new material to cover answered question about the film: Such as "How did Macleod meet his wife?" "What was the initial reaction to Macleod becoming immortal?" So while the author does a good job with such matters, he did a poor job of adapting the film to the book. Whether, it would be when he changed dialogue, or when he put his own interpretation of the film, or even when some parts were added, the author did a terrible job of portraying the film. For example: a minor thing in the movie a cop asked someone to get him a cherry cheese danish. In the book, he asks for a cherry cheese sandwich. WHAT THE HELL IS A CHERRY CHEESE SANDWICH?? At the end of the movie Connor says there can be only one. In the book the dialogue is changed to "I am the one". Those are minor things. Now in the movie Macleod fights the Kurgan in a construction. He does not unleash his sword because he can not let Brenda see it. In the book, the author says Macleod forgot it somewhere. However, he had nowhere to forget it. Also, the scene where Macleod's wife dies is one of the most emotional scenes of the film. In the book, it means very little because the author does very little to articulate Also, it seems like the author got lazy towards the end. At the end of the movie, Macleod describes in detail what the prize is to Brenda, in the book he says he can't describe it. So that is just laziness on the part of the author. I don't see how that is possible seems how that is just something he could have pulled from the movie to achieve effect. In conclusion, this adaption is more bad than good.

An epic adventure that spands, four and a half centuries, focuses on Conor Macleod, an immortal, who is one of the few, who has made it to the time of the gathering, where the immorrtals, will battle to the last, for the prize. For Conor to win the prize, he must defeat his arch enemy Kurgen. THERE CAN BE,ONLY ONE.

I thought this would be a better background into the Kurgan character and it was only a few sentences. Totally sucked. Better off just watching the movie.

Since the current weapon of Connor MacLeod is a katana, you would think that the authors might have used the word once in the book. The second time I saw "Samurai sword" I knew I should have just watched the movie again.

The authors not only botched some of the most poignant moments of the story, but I wasn't impressed with the description of the final battle between MacLeod and the Kurgan.

I think the Director's Cut version of the original Highlander movie is one of the best written movies I've seen. Maybe that's why this novel fell so far short of my expectations.

If you can get a copy of the script to Highlander, you'll get a much better feel for the themes to the movie - avoid this book!

Oh well, at least I learned how to spell pendejo.

This is the first novel concerning the Highlander, Connor MacLeod. (There are several concerning his successor, Duncan, in which Connor also appears.) We are introduced to the concept of The Game, in which a race of Immortals vie to be the remaining one in a battle of good, evil and "off with his head." If you are a fan of the Highlander TV show, I recommend reading this book and seeing the first movie -- it'll help you understand where Duncan comes from (and why Endgame was such an awesome movie).

The book seems to be a scene by scene text of the original Highlander movie. There are some additional scenes that finally make the ones in the movie 'click'. After reading the additions, I kept saying to myself "Now I know who that person is." The style won't win over the Pulitzer commitee, but to me it was worth the few bucks. If you're a fan of the movie and the series, you've got to have it.

If you are a Highlander movies fan, you must read this book!

I THOUGHT IT WAS TEN TIMES BETTER THAN THE MOVI