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Mortal Kombat

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Based upon the popular film Mortal Kombat, 'Mortal Kombat: A Novel' is beginning to be recognised as a classic.

Generally the book is very faithful to the film, and what it lacks in the movie's luscious visual textures it makes up for with Martin Delrio's lyricism. In one episode of the book, Sub Zero is looking at Scorpion whose leg he has just frozen "in a legwarmer of diamond butterflies", while Scorpion "evacuates from the pigpen dungeon of his dirty guts a powerful authoritarian bellow." Another scene Johnny Cage uppercuts Reptile and the action momentarily suspends in this delicate lull; a wind "enchanted with a fine herbed pungency from whisking through a sage patch" passes by Johnny Cage, and Reptile is "reeking and barfing green poisonous syrup." Such potency.

This book is timeless... immortal kombat.

Mortal Kombat: A Novel My son is a big fan of the Mortal Kombat movies and wanted to read more about the characters. He loves it.

This book is based off of the movie. its great to read after the movie and compare the two.

A fairly good book, but based too completely on the movie, not all that much variation. There were a few differences here and there, the fight between Sub-Zero and that guard guy, a few of Sonya's fights, and a few of the things in Johnny's Battle with Scorpion, but not much else. Being a die-hard fan of the series myself, I really enjoyed it, but I wouldn't recommend it for someone who isn't

I'm still bending over backwards to be fair about this book. There's nothing wrong with writing a novel about Mortal Kombat, except this one is just a re-hash of the movie with no variation, panache, or even interest. The author writes the book as if it were a chore. Like the movie, it displays a very contrived plot and undeveloped characters. If you're an easily pleased Mortal Kombat fan, you might like it, but there are no garantees.

This book isn't bad! If your a fan of the film or Mortal Kombat in gerneral, you should check this one out. The book ads the movie and as well some new scenes with "Jade" and the little known warrior "Art Lean", it also add's more dialog with "Jax".

I only had one problem with this book. The fight with Reptile and Liu Kang never happened. Although the reptillian creature itself is in the book, he never transforms into the Reptile we all know from the games and movies.

I thought Mortal Kombat was a great book, probably one of the best I've read. I liked its type of action-adventre mix. A real good book to say the least