Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required.

  • Apple
  • Android
  • Windows Phone
  • Android

To get the free app, enter your email address or mobile phone number.
Download to your computer
Kindle Cloud Reader
Facebook Twitter Pinterest <Embed>
Qty:1
FREE Shipping on orders with at least $25 of books.
Only 1 left in stock (more on the way).
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
X-Men - The Last Stand has been added to your Cart
Want it Saturday, April 23? Order within and choose Saturday Delivery at checkout. Details
Ship to:
Select a shipping address:
To see addresses, please
or
Please enter a valid US zip code.
or
FREE Shipping on orders over $25.
Used: Good | Details
Sold by Gulf Coast Books LLC
Fulfilled by Amazon
Condition: Used: Good
Comment: Unbeatable customer service, and we usually ship the same or next day. Over one million satisfied customers!

Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service we offer sellers that lets them store their products in Amazon's fulfillment centers, and we directly pack, ship, and provide customer service for these products. Something we hope you'll especially enjoy: FBA items qualify for FREE Shipping and .

If you're a seller, Fulfillment by Amazon can help you increase your sales. We invite you to learn more about Fulfillment by Amazon .

Sorry, there was a problem.

There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again.

Sorry, there was a problem.

List unavailable.
Have one to sell? Sell on Amazon
Flip to back Flip to front
Listen Playing... Paused   You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more
See all 2 images

X-Men - The Last Stand Mass Market Paperback – May 16, 2006

by
Chris Claremont (Author)
› Visit Amazon's Chris Claremont Page
Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
See search results for this author
Are you an author? Learn about Author Central
Chris Claremont (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 24 customer reviews
See all 2 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions
Price
New from Used from
Kindle
"Please retry"
$5.13
— —
Mass Market Paperback
"Please retry"
$6.99
$0.99 $0.01
Best Books of the Month
See the Best Books of the Month
Want to know our Editors' picks for the best books of the month? Browse Best Books of the Month, featuring our favorite new books in more than a dozen categories.
$6.99 FREE Shipping on orders with at least $25 of books. Only 1 left in stock (more on the way). Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Frequently Bought Together

  • X-Men - The Last Stand
  • +
  • X-Men 2
  • +
  • X-Men: A Novelization
Total price: $20.97
One of these items ships sooner than the other. Show details
Buy the selected items together

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1
This shopping feature will continue to load items. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
Back
  1. X-Men 2
    Chris Claremont
    4.1 out of 5 stars 29
    Mass Market Paperback
    $6.99 Prime
  2. X-Men: A Novelization
    Kristine Kathryn Rusch
    4.3 out of 5 stars 45
    Mass Market Paperback
    $6.99 Prime
  3. Spider-Man 2
    Peter David
    4.5 out of 5 stars 23
    Mass Market Paperback
  4. Spider-Man 3: A Novelization
    Peter David
    4.2 out of 5 stars 15
    Mass Market Paperback
  5. Batman Begins
    Dennis O'Neil
    3.6 out of 5 stars 29
    Mass Market Paperback
    $7.99 Prime
  6. Fantastic Four
    Peter David
    3.9 out of 5 stars 11
    Mass Market Paperback
Next
NO_CONTENT_IN_FEATURE
Image
Interested in the Audiobook Edition?
If you’re the author, publisher, or rights holder of this book, let ACX help you produce the audiobook.Learn more.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Del Rey; First Edition edition (May 16, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345492110
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345492111
  • Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #549,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Customer Reviews

Top Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsFar superior to the movie
By Kindle Customer on June 23, 2006
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Chris Claremont gives this story what the movie could not: depth, details, and a true love for the characters. Small wonder, given that he created and developed many of them to begin with. The novel allows for a view of the insides of many of these characters' heads, most notably that of Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix. The exploration of her psyche throughout the conflict is fascinating. Rogue and Warren are also greatly improved in the book: Rogue regains her spunky, sassy self, and loses the pathetic weakness she's taken on in the movies, while Warren is made more active, more useful, and given more than three lines.

I adored all the little things Claremont included here -- just a few words that he would toss off, referring to a single incident from comics that were published years ago. The inside jokes made it feel more like my beloved fandom again, not a Hollywood travesty.

For all of that, though, the book loses none of the action or tension that were the strong points of the movie. If anything, it clips along at a better pace, in the spirit of a good adventure read.

I recommend this book especially to those fans who were disappointed by the movie's handling of their favourite characters, and to long-time X-Men fans who will appreciate all the small referneces.
1 Comment 7 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsOh My Stars & Garters!
By Athenaeus Alexander Dukas on May 17, 2006
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Being a total X-Men/Phoenix Saga fan -- and completely addicted to this entire franchise -- I (of course) wasted no time racing-out to get this book and then blasted through it in a single day. And you know what? I think they may actually have pulled it off!

X3 should DEFINITELY exceed both X1 and X2 and will give the fans, both new and old, pretty much everything they've been looking for while solidly capping-off this 1st trilogy and while also still laying the groundwork for more down the road but in a totally non-anvilicous way. It also maintains that trademark self-referential/mocking and pithy derisive humor that made the first two movies so hysterically funny and on target.

I wasn't entirely happy with certain aspects of the ending but I can agree that they were entirely necessary and it gives a satisfactory emotional pay-off.

The film is (partly) a nifty re-working of the Dark Phoenix Saga and it also resolves the Scott/Jean/Logan triangle in a highly-effective and very believable way.

Having Chris Claremont be the novelizer was a stroke of genius because he's able to add in all sorts of thoughts and back-story to the characters they a) they won't possibly have time to feature all of in the film and b) are a good reminder of all that's happened in the X-Men Universe.

I'm sort-of holding my breath until I see the movie, however, because the X-Men franchise has a nasty little habit of adding/changing/removing scenes from the released movies that appeared in the novelizations. These changes frequently differ quite markedly from what took place in the novelization and usually affect the on-screen series of events and the final outcome.Read more ›
Comment 15 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
4.0 out of 5 starsMaking unrecognizable characters recognizable
By S. Curran on March 2, 2011
Format: Mass Market Paperback
I was disappointed with the X-Men movies. Especially, with X3. One problem was how drastically different from the comics, the characters were. It also lacked the depth of character that I had so loved in the comics, years ago.

Fortunately, two of the novelizations were written by Chris Claremont. He managed to infuse the characters with as much of their original personality (circa his original X-Men run) and history as he could. It just felt like coming home after a long, long time away. So, even though the characters were drastically different in the movie, they were recognizable in the book.
Comment 2 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsDid you hate X3? You'll love this book.
By Shannen Murphy on May 28, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
Claremont takes a movie I despised as a teenager and renders it finally palatable. From the clearly homoerotic subtext that hangs around Bobby Drake like a cloud nearly ten years before the comics made him gay to the window into Jean Grey and her existence as the Phoenix, to worldbuilding the film sorely needed and never got, this book fixes most of the things I needed fixed about that cluster#%$@ of a film. Buying a paper copy soon so that I can have Claremont sign it the next time we're at the same geek convention.
Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
4.0 out of 5 starsTorn
By Holff on May 18, 2006
Format: Mass Market Paperback
I am a big fan of the original X-men comics and Chris Claremont. Action is abundant and the storyline is classic Claremont, well written and entertaining.

After seeing the first two movie adaptations, I was please with how they stuck to the original storyline with minor deviations. This book takes the deviations even farther, almost to the point of annoyance. That is why I am torn. The movie will be awesome, but the finished product compared to the potential possibilities is hard to forget. Not sure if the ending is an evolution into another trilogy or a neat way to tie up several loose ends.

Only time will tell.
Comment 6 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse
5.0 out of 5 starsChris Claremont's Last Stand
By Karl G on June 6, 2006
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Chris Claremont is renowned throughout the comic book world. An expert at the X-men storyline (having written 17 years of Uncanny X-Men in comics), he brings his field of expertise and imagination to words.

Chris helmed the second book as well, X2, back in 2003. He writes in a distinctive fashion that sets him apart from other authors - literature writers and movie-adaptation writers alike.

Chris writes movie-adaptations with his own style... he knows this is his book and he makes it so. The book follows the movie (as it must) but very loosely. A lot of extra stuff that wasn't in the movie is added to the book to thicken its pages and add flavor. It works, adding a lot of depth and color to each individual character.

Chris writes with a lot of detail. He puts in a substantial amount of detail... so much that the reader, while reading it, can feel the exact scene of the event, unfolding within his brain, even if he has not watched the movie. Every detail in Jean Grey's house, for example, is described such that the reader knows exactly where everything is and what is happening.

Unlike some movie-adaptations, Chris is not a slave to the movie. He has taken a near-2-hour film and turned it into a book so marvelous and creative it shames all other movie-adaptations. Chris's X-Men expertise, knowledge, and imagination comes to life here, bringing each character out from the pages, making each character move as it would if it were real, touching the readers' hearts and plucking at strings of emotion... of fear, anger, joy, sadness and other emotions that humanize the book.

Chris is truly an expert of the genre, and that is definitely to his credit. This book is amazing, the movie popular, and Chris is just the perfect persion to translate the acting to words.
Comment One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback...
Thank you for your feedback.
Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again
Report abuse

Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

More of the character bits than the movie could show that fleshed out the characters motives and back stories.

Published 2 months ago by Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

I deeply appreciate it.

Published 6 months ago by S. L. Hill
5.0 out of 5 starsbetter than movie

Great book

Published 16 months ago by Brian
5.0 out of 5 starsgreat

I order it to my sister
she is happy due to great content, light weight, suitable size,
she want its Film also

Published on August 6, 2013 by abdulaziz mobarak
3.0 out of 5 starsOkay, not great.

The back story on jean grey was interesting. But, EVERY character at some time or another says the word "bub" i didn't think it would be annoying at first, but after the 18th... Read more

Published on November 24, 2008 by Rachel A. Couler
5.0 out of 5 starsCompanion piece to the movie!

For those of you who need to know what the character is thinking at a particular moment and everything else that did not/cannot translate to the silver screen, this book is for... Read more

Published on September 17, 2007 by Alyx Alexandre
4.0 out of 5 starsSuper Reader

This is really quite good, and Claremont throws in some things of interest.

An extended danger room sequence, and Lockheed hovering in the shadows in Kitty's room. Read more

Published on August 6, 2007 by average
3.0 out of 5 starsAny okay novelization

The war between mutants and man is coming. Some are standing with Magneto including Jean Grey who is back from the dead. While other are with Professor X and the X-men. Read more

Published on May 20, 2007 by M. E. Newell
2.0 out of 5 starsThey Should Have Named Them The Expletive Men

If you are a mild fan of the X-men, as I am, you may be thinking of picking up this novel to get a little more back story. Read more

Published on November 17, 2006 by S. Robinson
3.0 out of 5 stars3.5 stars for a novelization...

Claremont did a fairly good job of capturing the action of the movie. I picked up this book after I had seen the movie, assuming it would help me take the movie with me more than... Read more

Published on September 20, 2006 by T.L. Walker

Set up an Amazon Giveaway

X-Men - The Last Stand
Amazon Giveaway allows you to run promotional giveaways in order to create buzz, reward your audience, and attract new followers and customers. Learn more
This item: X-Men - The Last Stand
Set up a giveaway

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?

There's a problem loading this menu right now.

Learn more about Amazon Prime.



Pages with Related Products. See and discover other items: last stand book 3