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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780425222867
ISBN: 0425222861
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 18, 2008
Publisher: Berkley
Sales Rank: 40708
Studio: Berkley
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Product Description:
Based on the blockbuster Warner Bros. Pictures film starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.
Allied with both the police department and the district attorney’s office, the vigilante known as Batman continues to bring justice and hope to Gotham City.
But one man dares to mock Batman’s mission. A man with a twisted sense of humor. A man whose grotesque smile is reflected on the calling card he leaves at the scene of his crimes: The Joker.
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The sad truth about novelizations is that they start out handicapped. Usually the writer is working from the script rather than the finished film. You can't get the book published close enough to the film's release date otherwise.
That explains both the rushed copy-editing (for example, "He looked first at the *prisoner's* ferry, *laying* maybe a hundred yards off the port bow..." -- note the singular possessive and the incorrect verb) and the obvious 'factual' errors (for example, ... Read More
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Dennis O'Neil really knows his Dark Knight and this novelization of the movie adds substance even if you've seen the movie. You discover what happened to the Scarecrow in between the two movies and other bits that extends the movie's storyline. O'Neil captures the internal thoughts of Bruce Wayne/Batman, something that a movie can't quite do. Well done for a "novelization."
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When I had bought the book, Iwas expecting to be as well written as O'Neil's adaptation of Batman Begins and Batman: Knightfall, but was sadly disappointed. The novel is very bland and almost seems rushed. This is a serious decline in quality in O'neil's work. Here's hoping he is able to redeem himself. Still, the book gives a liitle more backround on characters from the film, specifically Harvey Dent and adds in some extra scenes that were most likely cut from the final version of the film.
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This book is abysmal. It's poorly written, shallow and feels rushed. A lot of the subtle moments from the film are totally removed , (for example, the tone of the Jokers voice, his walk, just how terrifying he is - all these details add up to make a mental picture in your mind which is part of what reading fiction is all about. O'Neil describes none of them, the Joker could be a postman for all the info we get.)
We get no inclination about how the characters are feeling, or how they do ... Read More
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Dennis "Denny" O'Neill has been one of the principal architects for Batman over the past thirty years, doing everything from comic writer to editor to novelization author. His adaptation of Batman Begins was quite solid, so I had high hopes for this, which I read--and recommend you read ONLY--after seeing the movie.
Put bluntly, the master is either losing his touch or rushed this into print. Despite being one of the sources for the characterization of the Joker, O'Neill fails to capture ... Read More
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