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Summary: Fantastic Voyage was exciting, but also hard to understand.
Review: The main character was Grant. He was kind and sweet but was very plain. From reading this book I learned that Isaac Asimov is a great writer.His books are very exciting but are also very hard to understand. In this book all the characters have to have a lot of courage.
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Summary: Great sci-fi book!
Review: This book has everything, science, technology, suspense, romance.... just read it. You won't regret it. My favorite sci-fi book to date.
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Summary: REALLLLLLLLY GOOD BOOK
Review: This is a truly great book, I usually stay up till about 10:30 pm reading, but with this book, my dad caught me reading at 12:00 one time. I'm a big science fiction fan, but now i'm reading my mom's Protector, by
Dee Henderson (GOOD series). But apprepriate and good science fiction is hard to find, Prey by Michael Crichton, for example was REALLY good, but had an adult scene in it, so I dropped it. I'd reccommend it to anyone above 5th or 4th grade . =-D
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Summary: The film was better
Review: Very rarely do u see the filmed version of a book surpass the book itself. This is an exception. The book starts off well but the character development is a bit absurd. Anyway the minituarization is a pretty novel idea, and the ending , quite decent. One star for the cover. Quite innovative.
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Summary: One of the novelizations of a motion picture....
Review: When I was in junior high school, I stumbled upon this book in the library. Since I loved the movie when I first saw it on TV, I eagerly checked this book out. As it turned out, "Fantastic Voyage" was a book I usually checked out repeatedly. Years later, I rented the movie again years with the book fresh in my mind, and I realized that Isaac Asimov's version was much better than the Richard Fleischer film. The characters are more interesting and complex on paper than they were in the film. Robert Boyd is extremely bland and boring, and it's painfully obvious Donald Pleasance is the villain. Asimov makes Boyd's character charming and resourceful, and Pleasance's character is very interesting. (In fact, his motives in the book are much different than in the film.) Another thing that Asimov does is try to make the plotline a little bit more scientifically realistic. In the movie, the crew simply suck in air from an alveolus in the lungs when their oxygen tanks are depleted. In the book, Asimov has the crew MINIATURIZE the air so that it can go through their tube faster. Personally, I think this is a great book. But if any sci-fi fans are disappointed in this, so was Asimov. He didn't like the idea that he was adapting someone else's work, so in 1987 he wrote an original novel called "Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain." (The title is misleading, since it isn't a sequel.) People who do not like this book are advised to read the other one...
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Summary: The best Asimov ever!
Review: Without a doubt the most stunning sci-fi book I've ever read.I've reread it so many times I practically have it memorized! In comparison to ome of Asimov's other works, which seem dull and uninspired, this novel grabs your attention and holds it through the tense beginning and the exiting climax. I also learned a lot from it (ever wonder what a node of Ranvier is?), more than I've learned from any other book (except Michael Crichton' Sphere). I 'd reccomend it to everyone!
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