The Mummy: A Novel

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Summary: If you loved the movie the book is something you must have.
Review: This book closely follows the movies story line. It has all the fun, excitement, and romance of the movie and yet it explaines a little bit more. I found that once I started the book I couldn't put it down.

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Summary: Great Adventure
Review: This book is very entertaining, the movie was good, but this story is better. It was nice to read about a great female character and such a dashing hero. It is a great adventure and I highly reccomend it. I wish I could find some more books like it!!

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Summary: a completely awesome movie and book
Review: this book rocked, no 2 ways about it. very gripping, and wonderfully descriptive, i recommend this book to everyone who loved the movie.

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Summary: this is the best ever!
Review: this movie is great, filled with adventure and ancient egypt, wit and plenty of action with a touch of romance thrown in. just one bit of advice for anyone who hasn't seen it - don't read the book, it is completely horrible, turning all the humor in the movie into dry sarcasm and ruining the mood completely, as well as making the relationship between O'Connell and Evelyn seem unreal and leaving the reader wondering how the book charachters could ever fall in love with each other. the movie is awesome, and the main actor and actress did a great job. see it!

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Summary: A gripping novel packed with action and adventure!
Review: This novel was a real page-turner. I couldn't stop reading, and I finished it in 2 days. It started out slow in the beginning, but got faster as the story built up. The story has a strong plot and the characters were very well-developed. The scenes with the Mummy and the City of the Dead are fantastic. This was probably a great adaptation of the movie, which I'll be seeing. Max Allan Collins probably did the best adaptation of a movie then any other movie-tie in that I've read. I recommend this book to anyone!

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Summary: A Very Good Book, Based On My Favorite Film
Review: This novel, by Max Allan Collins (Saving Private Ryannovelazation), is based on the hit Universal Pictures film "TheMummy", starring Brendan Fraser - which happens to be my favorite film. After seeing the film back in May '99, right away I did a few things. Such as buying the other versions (from 1932 and 1959). Then in September I bought it on video (in widescreen of corse!) and recentaly purchesed the soundtrack, which was exellent! Beautiful, beautiful music by Jerry Goldsmith. My next chore was to go out and buy the book. I did, and sat down and read it in a few days - and I'll say, it was worth the money! It wasn't THE movie however (in my review for the movie, I gave it 5 stars), which only means that the book was a little boring in some parts, and details the action scenes too much. I'll say this though, it does entertainingly explain most of the major characters origins, providing a wonderful back story to keep in mind while watching the film. There are a few changes made in the novel, such as some details in the ancient egypt prolouge that resemble the original Karloff "Mummy", and during the desert trek to Hamunaptura, the crew stumbles upon a desert oasis - some extra diologue is injected into that; but I won't detail it all to much, so everyone can enjoy it better when they read it for the first time. Overall, it is a good adaptation of an even better movie, with some good metephores, in depth character development and a very good desciption of the "stage one" mummy. Read this book if you enjoyed the movie, you won't regrete it! END