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King Kong (Modern Library Classics)

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I have always loved King Kong and this novelization of the film is wonderful. It captures the true essence of King Kong. Considering that King Kong was not origanially a book, the author did a great job with the book. Highly recomended book for those of you out there are huge King Kong fans like myself.

I just finished reading the original "King Kong" novelization by Delos Lovelace, and I have to say it was very entertaining. Very similar to the 1933 film, the book takes the reader to Skull Island in the Southwest Pacific along with Carl Denham, Ann Darrow, and Jack Driscoll. Although Denham is looking to make a movie using Darrow as his starlet, they get more than they bargained for when they encounter Kong and the prehistoric inhabitants of the Skull Island jungle. Although some of the language in the book may seem somewhat dated, I thought the book was more entertaining than most of the books I've read recently. A real page turner as the phrase was originally intended. Probably influenced by Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World," "King Kong" is a story that will hold your interest all the way through. I give it 5 stars. And now to see the 2005 remake...

This couldn't have been one of the best works ever pulled from a screenplay, however it's still a fun read. The pages keep turning because you want to know, 'What happens next?'

Written in a pulpish style which means long on action and short on characterization, this astonishingly fast read kept me on the edge of my seat, even though I knew how it all ended. Reading about the missing spider footage leads me to agree that the scene stopped the film dead in its tracks and wasn't needed. It was a wise choice to delete it from the final version.

If you like novelizations of movies, this book should be great fun for you.

Its true, Im 18 right now and I have been reading this puppy like crazy. It goes into so much more depth, that its even BETTER then the 1933 cinema classic.

Some Notable differences:

The Spider Pit Scene is in tact

Instead of Kong wreaking mayhem on the streets of New York, he actually hops from building to building until he reaches the Empire State Building.

Kong climbs the empire state building at night

Why Cant we read this is English class?