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Alien

The Official Movie Novelization

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Alien

By: Alan Dean Foster
Narrated by: Peter Guinness
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Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien and Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. He is also a best-selling science fiction and fantasy author in his own right, including the popular Pip & Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series.

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Whilst it can't hold a candle to the movie, this is still a decent effort. I think the main problem is the distinct lack of alien description. Nothing regards how it looks, moves or kills. Most of us have a clear mental vision of the alien, but if you don't, I'm not convinced the book leads the listener in the right direction.

Peter's accents are almost comical too, and you cant help but compare his phrasing to the movie and think to yourself, 'Ripley wouldn't say it like that'.

So, coming from someone who loves the alien series, a decent effort but didn't really get my pulse racing.

Not quite as good as the movie

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The early part of the story seems to be padded with pointless techno babble and yet it doesn't include the "Space Jockey", the story does pick up later and is enjoyable despite the overused thesaurus. The narration is good and raises the quality considerably
The bonus first hour of the "Aliens" audiobook was another plus

Patchy Story but good Narrator

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Saw the film when it was released originally and I remember thinking how original it was. This book brought it all back. The death of Kane, Jones the cat, Ash the droid and the rest of the crew all perfectly brought to life by Peter Guinness.

Nobody can hear you scream in space...

I've downloaded the second in the series.

Atmospheric and original.

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Of course, it's great! This is the beginning of a franchise full of horrifying and gory breakthroughs in discovery and science, leading to the survival based storys of that consequence

Very good horror

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Peter Guinness lends his voice to a fine narration if the Alien novelization, although the voices all sounded similar. The book adapts some things from the Director's Cut, but keeps is still gripping and thrilling. The last chapter also contains a preview of Aliens, which should definitely have been its own chapter.

Made some changes to movie. Good narration

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