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Summary: Thought the book was great!
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I thought this was a very good book.
<I also thought that it is suited for all ages!
My daughter also loved the book!
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Summary: Good reading
Review: Although the movie was campy, this book remains (because of the wonderful abilities of imagination) current)Anybody who is interested in the BTVS world ought to start out here to get an inking of how Buffy got her calling and the whole background behind her birthright.Also unlike the movie, it theorizes what happens after Buffy saves the day. Even if it leaves out the fact that Buffy is supposed to have burned down the gym, how on earth she (post-revelation)went to Europe or her parents divorce, it is not as choppy as the movie version. Reading this book is not necessary, but strongly recomended to understand the slayer's world. It's also worth noting in this series that she lacks the all-important network of the slayerettes or expansive research outlets and her only helper is a drifter.
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Summary: Very Good.............
Review: As usual this is an excellant book. Richie is THE best teen/horrer auther out there and you should definitely read this book.
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Summary: Richie rocks again
Review: As usual this is an excellant book. Richie is THE best teen/horrer auther out there and you should definitely read this book.
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Summary: Better Late Than Never
Review: I came about five years later to the story of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I did manage to see the original film on videotape before the series started, but just barely. I offer no excuses other than a mental inability to believe that the story of valley girl meets vampire might have more to it than the usual trashy horror flick. Okay, I admit I was badly mistaken. The dialog was far better than I expected, Buffy's character was complex and interesting, and the film turned out to be both funny and spooky. Nor can one fault Joss Whedon's new take on vampire mythology. I picked up this novelization of the film, the first real Buffy book, to have as a reference. It has been long enough so that I no longer remember the film. I had just read the graphic novel version that retells the tale with Sarah Michele Gellar instead of Kristy Swanson and suspected that it had taken a few liberties with the script (it did). At fewer than 200 pages, the book actually takes less time to read than it does to watch the film. Moreover, I thought it would be fun. And so it was. The plot is now so well known it hardly bears repeating. Girl cheerleads and shops, girl meets watcher, watcher trains girl, vampires try to eat high school, girl kills vampires. The girl is unusual in that, under the disguise of a young woman who makes shallowness an art, we find someone who is unexpectedly bright, has a strong personality and a surprising sense of duty. In fact, the film questions many of our images of Buffy's lifestyle, from geeks to basketball stars, and does it well. Richie Cusick does a great job of turning a script into a novel, which it the difficult matter of turning atmosphere and scene into meaningful words. As I have already indicated, this is a quick, enjoyable read, and is surprisingly hard to put down. I you are an aficionado, or simply want to find out what all the excitement has been about, this is a good book to have.
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Summary: Better Late Than Never
Review: I came about five years later to the story of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I did manage to see the original film on videotape before the series started, but just barely. I offer no excuses other than a mental inability to believe that the story of valley girl meets vampire might have more to it than the usual trashy horror flick. Okay, I admit I was badly mistaken. The dialog was far better than I expected, Buffy's character was complex and interesting, and the film turned out to be both funny and spooky. Nor can one fault Joss Whedon's new take on vampire mythology. I picked up this novelization of the film, the first real Buffy book, to have as a reference. It has been long enough so that I no longer remember the film. I had just read the graphic novel version that retells the tale with Sarah Michele Gellar instead of Kristy Swanson and suspected that it had taken a few liberties with the script (it did). At fewer than 200 pages, the book actually takes less time to read than it does to watch the film. Moreover, I thought it would be fun. And so it was. The plot is now so well known it hardly bears repeating. Girl cheerleads and shops, girl meets watcher, watcher trains girl, vampires try to eat high school, girl kills vampires. The girl is unusual in that, under the disguise of a young woman who makes shallowness an art, we find someone who is unexpectedly bright, has a strong personality and a surprising sense of duty. In fact, the film questions many of our images of Buffy's lifestyle, from geeks to basketball stars, and does it well. Richie Cusick does a great job of turning a script into a novel, which it the difficult matter of turning atmosphere and scene into meaningful words. As I have already indicated, this is a quick, enjoyable read, and is surprisingly hard to put down. I you are an aficionado, or simply want to find out what all the excitement has been about, this is a good book to have.
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Summary: Very Good.............
Review: I just got this the other day, and I couldn't put it down! It's a little better than the movie! Richie is a great author, and if your a fan of hers or the movie, you should get this book!
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Summary: Fun, campy and worth reading
Review: I normally shy away from movie novelizations, because they seem to lack the depth of books that precede the movies they spawn. I bought this for my classroom library, thinking that it might lure some reluctant young readers, but I found myself really enjoying it. The author has a great sense of campy humor, isn't afraid to deviate from an exact replication of the movie's plot and I thought the ending was better than the one in the movie. It was a fun read.
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Summary: Wicked good
Review: I thought this book was pretty entertaining. I liked the movie, way back when it first came out, so I bought the book, since Richie Tankersley Cusick is my favorite author. I thought the plot was good, and actually gave a little mroe depth to the characters than the movie did. I don't like the show at all, because it wasn't faithful to the movie.So, I guess I would recommend this book to people that liked the movie, and not the TV show, because it doesn't have "Angel" or any of the other TV characters. (And also, in the TV show, what the hell happened to Pike? He was like the main guy,and they just got rid of him!)
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Summary: Very good
Review: I thought this book was very good. I actually liked it more than the movie. The only thing was that this book's dialog and stuff was often very different from the movie. Overall I really liked the book though.
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