Spike ,'Selfless'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
What does a "movie-tie-in novel" mean?
It's a novelization of the movie. That is, they hire some hack writer to do a cheap paperback that tells the same story as the movie. It's an interesting weird little sub-genre. I actually read the novelization for Star Wars before the movie opened.
I had no idea there were so many Oz follow-creations. Wow. It's like Sherlock-Holmes big, or even more, the way you describe it.
Similar. They are two of the biggest early fandoms, along with Tarzan.
my baby sister, who is the Oz-iest of the 5 of us
This makes me think of her as a strangely laconic short guitar player with cool hair.
I liked the Ruth Plumly Thompson ones better than the Baum ones, actually.
What does a "movie-tie-in novel" mean?
A novel or book based on the plot of the movie, and usually not very well-written, but with pages of photos from the movie. The Return to Oz one was a weird case because the movie is based off of an exisiting book, but the tie-in novel isn't just a re-print of that exisiting work.
We will not speak of the abomination that was the movie-tie-in novel for Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Even the pretty pictures didn't help.
Good Thought For The Day: There are no tie-in books for The Lord of the Rings.
Thanks for the explanation, Hec and Jilli. I don't think we have anything like that here. No, wait, we do - for one horrid Israeli movie. Let;s not speak of it.
along with Tarzan.
Tarzan was huge here in the early days of Israel - there were short books published about him by Israeli writers (not sure if they cleared the legal issues first), but I still think that plenty of even the books weren't translated.
strangely laconic short guitar player with cool hair.
She's taller than me and my other sister, she learns to play guitar, she has nearly Rio-like curls, she's not laconic, but she probably shares lots of Oz' musical tastes. Close enough.
There are no tie-in books for The Lord of the Rings.
Except the movie picture covers.
Jilli, sort of off-topic, but I finally saw "Nightmare before Christmas"...I liked it a lot, but not as much as you...it was truly very Jilli-ish. Quite an experience...I'd never seen anything like it.
Except the movie picture covers.
Well, that's true, but that doesn't really bother me.
Well, that's true, but that doesn't really bother me.
I appreciated that while they did the movie covers, they kept non-movie covers in print simultaneously. That was smart.