Alien

The Official Movie Novelization

De: Alan Dean Foster

Narrado por: Peter Guinness

Duración: 9 h y 3 m

Resumen del Editor

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.

©2014 Alan Dean Foster (P)2015 Audible, Ltd

just a great listen

the film and this recording were just about one and the same. loved the unnatural music set in at perfect timing for spine tingling effect.

Joe

Very will written and narrated. Looking forward to reading the next series of books.

classic

it's a classic, just like you remembered it. good listen, classic deep space chiller

Excellent Story. Good Narration

Alien is a great sci fi horror thriller. It requires a great narrator for audio book. I say, have another narrator have a shot

Interesting Adaptation

It was interesting to hear the differences in Foster’s interpretation of the script. From a story I heard he was working from an earlier draft of the script and Geiger hadn’t finalized the designs for the film.

Peter Guinness’ narration is superb. Steadily drawing you in for the the scare.

Monotone Reader

I did enjoy the story, hell it's based on one of my all time favorite movies and they mostly kept to the story, but the orator left something to be desired since I couldn't always tell who he was trying to portray.

Flattened by the performance

Surely everyone has seen the film? So you know the characters. Well, they don't make it through this reading. The delivery is robbed of emotion and suspense. It's kind of like listening to the narration on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, not as much emotion as the book. It's hard to believe someone could have seen the film and then deliver such a downbeat and homogeneous reading. The characters were sort of recognizable.

Little has changed from the movie, but some things have. But just small things. If you demanded an example, avoiding spoilers... well a scene in the mess that was opto-hydraulic in the film is all printed circuit boards and wires in the book. Which is like going back to the steam age. It doesn't detract from the story.

It is interesting to have the internal dialogue from the characters. It adds to the story and makes up for some of what the delivery removed. With a different narrator this would be a five star experience, like the movie.

Ripley kicks alien butt!

I love the movie and I love the audible book, which is the official movie novelization, so there are no surprises here if you are a fan of the movie. The audible book is just good solid writing and storytelling, which I found highly entertaining.

love it

just an iconic part of science fiction. classic and of course the movie was classic.

Better than the movie, and the movie came first!

I had high hopes for this novelization when I selected it. I was not disappointed. Typically, when I read a book and then watch the movie, I am disappointed in the movie. In this case, having seen the movie first, I worried of a similar result. Especially given how much I love the movie! Not the case! The book was so good that when I watched the movie again, I was a little disappointed in some of the lost details that Mr Foster augmented the screenplay with in his writing. This audiobook is simply amazing! Narration is also terrific. All around great experience!!