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Summary: Taken (SPOILERS)
Review: For anyone who has read this book, you have to admit, it has it's good parts. For anyone who hasn't read this, it's about alien abductions, their expierements, all that. I liked everything up to when Owen died. His granddaughter, Mary, wasn't just quite evil, or his son, Eric. Anyways, the story got very boring after the fifth or so part. I give this book 3 stars because the first half was good.
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Summary: Taken
Review: I haven't seen the series, and I can only hope it is as good as this book. The plot pulled me in and the characters came to life on the page. Although, many people are complaining about the end, but I think the end was just fine. For you people who want to know what happened to Allie at the end, take a look at the title of the book. My only problem with the book was the grey's motives. The explanation for the abductions was absurd. For anyone who isn't a hard-core, let's-all-go-to-Roswell UFO fan, I highly reccommend this book. Anyone who doesn't fit in that catagory should read something that isn't "fiction" (I've heard the Blue Book is good).
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Summary: On par with the movie.
Review: I read the book before watching the movie, and I must say that it is almost like reading the movies script. The only exception is the ending. The book ends leaving you hanging. It leaves out about the last 15 minutes of the movie.
If you like books about aliens this is for you. I thought it was well written, and I really liked the characters.
I wouldn't bother reading it though if you have seen the movie already.
I recommend for Sci-fi fans.
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Summary: Don't waste your time -- wait for the DVD
Review: I read the novelization of "Taken" after watching the entire 20-hour mini series. I was addicted to the series and was hoping to gain a little extra insight into the characters through the aid of an omnicient narrator. I was sorely disappointed.The first thing I noticed was the lack of "narration" by Allie, the young protagonist of the final episodes. (Perhaps they held back on that so they can publish yet another tie-in book entitled "The Philosophy of Allie.") Additionally, the book lacked much of the character development that I enjoyed in the series. Important exchanges between characters were simply deleted, like Allie's healing of Charlie -- the point in the series where everyone realizes that Allie *isn't* just a little girl -- as well as the video message from Chet to Mary, in which she realizes that he really did love her. And to top that off, the entire END is missing! Allie simply walks off into the sunset to join her alien kin. Without Lisa's discovery of the lone star necklace, it just wasn't the same. I'm going to wait for the DVD and hope the special features will make up for this terrible excuse of a novelization.
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Summary: Wasted money--don't waste yours!
Review: I saw the miniseries "Taken" on SciFi and loved every minute of it. I bought the book hoping--no, praying--to get an outside narration and portrayal of characters. I'm still praying. From what I've heard, Cook is a superb author, but one day this book will go to the bottom of a bargain bin and no one will care. 20 beautifully crafted hours of science fiction and UFOs go to waste in about 350 pages. The magical essence you get from watching the show is just not there. The characters are untangible voids, whereas in the series they emit floods of emotions. The scenes, especially the beginning, are rushed and skimpy, missing out on important details and vital information about these extra-terrestrials. All the events just rushed out all at once and in such a small amount of time that in the end I was left confused and disappointed. Allie's wise antics and philosophies are omitted. The ending was not nearly as moving as the series. I hardly finished the first paragraph and I already fell asleep. Do yourself a favor. Don't be a chump like me and buy this time waster. Wait for the Taken DVD. Perhaps then you'll get a better perspective of the characters and events than in this lame excuse for a novel.
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Summary: Were You Taken?
Review: I was completely hooked on the SCIFI epic miniseries event, TAKEN. I received the book as a Christmas present, and I read through it in two days. It almost mirrors the series itself, although, I was disappointed to find that the book dropped several good characters and skimmed through several scenes that were in the series. I noticed that some scenes were altered. For example, in Alaska 1970, Sam Crawford, Dr. Powell, Buzz, and Sarah split up to search for the missing student Daryl in the series, in the book they searched for Wendy. The book lacked many details, but I was rather surprised that Cook managed to squeeze 20 hours of television drama into a 355 page book pretty well. The characters certainly needed to be explained more, and after I read the book I was still asking questions that I thought would be answered. I just hope there's a sequel, and maybe someone else can patch up the holes that many people have given the Taken novelization a thumbs down for. It was adequate work, but improvement was needed.
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Summary: Good, but...
Review: I was unable to watch "Taken" when it first aired, however, I was able to watch the current replaying that was on Sci-Fi last September to November on Sundays. I couldn't wait till the next episode would air, and I bought the DVD box set after only seeing the first four episodes and watched all ten episodes in less than a week. Since I liked the mini-series, I thought that I would give this book a try, knowing that the ending was different becuase of the other reviews that I read before buying the book. After reading the book, I would have to say that I liked the mini-series much better than I did the book. The book skips scenes that I thought were important in the mini-series (Allie healing Charlie's bullet wound) or were combined with previous scenes. The book dose not even tell you that Allie healed Charlie's bullet wound (as stated above) or even that Allie knew that Charlie was her dad until the part when Tom makes his apperance near the end. The reader does not even know how Charlie got out of the office all right after being shot. One of the weaker novelizations that I have ever read.
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Summary: Good, but...
Review: I was unable to watch "Taken" when it first aired, however, I was able to watch the current replaying that was on Sci-Fi last September to November on Sundays. I couldn't wait till the next episode would air, and I bought the DVD box set after only seeing the first four episodes and watched all ten episodes in less than a week. Since I liked the mini-series, I thought that I would give this book a try, knowing that the ending was different becuase of the other reviews that I read before buying the book. After reading the book, I would have to say that I liked the mini-series much better than I did the book. The book skips scenes that I thought were important in the mini-series (Allie healing Charlie's bullet wound) or were combined with previous scenes. The book dose not even tell you that Allie healed Charlie's bullet wound (as stated above) or even that Allie knew that Charlie was her dad until the part when Tom makes his apperance near the end. The reader does not even know how Charlie got out of the office all right after being shot. One of the weaker novelizations that I have ever read.
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Summary: Good, but...
Review: I was unable to watch "Taken" when it first aired, however, I was able to watch the current replaying that was on Sci-Fi last September to November on Sundays. I couldn't wait till the next episode would air, and I bought the DVD box set after only seeing the first four episodes and watched all ten episodes in less than a week. Since I liked the mini-series, I thought that I would give this book a try, knowing that the ending was different becuase of the other reviews that I read before buying the book. After reading the book, I would have to say that I liked the mini-series much better than I did the book. The book skips scenes that I thought were important in the mini-series (Allie healing Charlie's bullet wound) or were combined with previous scenes. The book dose not even tell you that Allie healed Charlie's bullet wound (as stated above) or even that Allie knew that Charlie was her dad until the part when Tom makes his apperance near the end. The reader does not even know how Charlie got out of the office all right after being shot. One of the weaker novelizations that I have ever read.
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Summary: save your money
Review: I was very disappointed. I really enjoyed the series and thought the book would be a great supplement. I hoped the book would expand off the series. No depth to the characters or the story line. Wait for the DVD.
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