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The Marine (Wwe)

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Like the movie itself,this novelization of "The Marine" is good escapist fun for guys.Sure,the plot is ridiculous,but then it's supposed to be.The whole point of both the book and the movie is the action sequences,and
they are top-notch onscreen and in print.And yeah,the "bad guys" are nothing more than comic buffoons,but they are intended to be that way.
But I really liked John and Kate.Surprisingly,for the leading characters in an action story,they had some depth to them.John Cena and Kelly Carlson
are GREAT in the movie!So all in all,this is a good action story that moves swiftly and works up a good deal of suspense.I recommend it for
most guys,and especially young adults.

I have been through a lot of boring books with boring stories and ways of boring writing, and they actually sent me to sleep after each single hour I tried to read. I got "The Marine" about the days it was first released and didn't expect much from it, as not many good books were passed to me, but I started reading as soon as I got home. Although I felt disappointed in the storyline at first, (I thought the story would be inside of the US Marine Corps, like the novelization to the movie "SWAT",) but the way of writing of this book brightened up my days. I couldn't believe I'd assumed half the book within just a few hours without realizing. I spent the day with the book and did nothing else. It was written by using 'easy language', and it was very well done. It helps making it a funny read in my opinion, based on all my previous reading experiences. You can compare to those old fiction books in 1970s; often difficult language, exaggerations about the stuff that are not quite sticking around to the plots or main characters, and the books were often long (~300pp), but only 300pp took me about half a month to read. ... "The Marine" is not just an enjoyable read, it seems practice good writing in me for if I will want to be a writer. I still keep the book on my bookshelf in my private room, (instead of being forgotten in the box full of read books,) and have some good time picking it up to reread and study the way of good writing.

unable to give a review of the item since I did not read the book, it was a gift to a grandchild

Rudy Josephs novelization of the movie proves what happens when an author assumes there has been authentication checks when the movie was made. I knew I was in trouble by page 22, after the hero John Triton had vanquished 9 (count 'em) 9 armed terrorists single handedly to save 3 Special Ops Marines. (There is no such unit at present, although the 'Corps is building one.) After his discharge for disobeying an order (for which there was no trial), he returns home to his loving wife. It was like watching a train wreck, you don't want to look, but you just have to, so I pressed on.

The story continues with John and Kate camping, but running into bad guys who snatch his wife as a hostage.

As our hero chases the baddies who have kidnapped his wife, even the most casual firearms reader is left scratching his/her head. He has a revolver, but the hero hears the click, click "on an empty clip" (huh?). During the car chase John's car has the top ripped off (ala Smokey and the Bandit), suffers a front-end explosion when baddy bullets hit an engine oil line (huh?) and when the baddy car is disabled, John's trashed car, spinning left to right, flies over the top of it (ala Dukes of Hazard). No problem, in about the 1/8 second this is happening, the baddies climb out of their car and machine gun John's spinning vehicle.

Whew. Ok, John deals with all that, but now he is on foot armed only with a knife. He is put upon by 2 armed dope manufacturers and overpowers them both (of course), and casually wanders off to continue the hunt, not bothering to take one or both of the vanquished doper's weapons. John is truly amazing.

The hunt goes on with our hero getting blown out of various buildings but survives them all as he pursues the kidnappers, but I think I'll just leave Superman on steroids here; you get the general drift.

One could walk out of the movie (which carries the same name) and just say "Hey, it's just a Hollywood movie", but I would respectfully submit that the written word should have a higher standard. I would be remiss in criticizing an author without suggesting corrective action, and here it is: I blame the author and publishing house for not having the book proof read by a military person (not necessarily an expert, a Marine or even a veteran) and someone with at least a high school knowledge of physics and some common sense.

Although I respect Josephs's effort, I cannot recommend bothering to read this book.