This novelization of the film of the same name was a nice little read. It was an ok book, fitting if you want to relax and not think about something too much without running the risk to be infuriated by bad writing. It is not a book I would say you need to read but its also not something that would be a waste of time in my eyes. Actually I think it works much better than the film and while Minar Harper does not use her vampirism often it at least is used much better than I had seen in many later instances of vampirism in fiction. The book simply has more room to explain things and give us some more background and depth to the characters. Also there is the thing that some things simply do not work well on the screen.If the book has a big flaw I think it is that there are so many characters from so many different authors. You see characters from the works of Bram Stoker, Jules Verne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain - for a start - there are much more and I think even references to H.G. Wells. For me this was no problem since I knew who they are and also it explains certain actions of the characters, but when you have no idea who those characters are and what their history is, you might have a problem(view spoiler)[, e.g. when you do not know of the relationship between Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn you probably have no idea why Sawyer seems so driven to catch Moriarty (yes, THE Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes novels) (hide spoiler)]
Quite a lametastick book. Highly don't recommend it. The original graphic novel was a very interesting treatment of this concept. Take a pack of literary characters and throw them together and battle the bad guys. The novelization of the movie (and I am assuming the movie itself) went in the wrong direction. The original "cast" in the graphic novels was Alan Quartermain, Mina Harker, Captain Nemo, Dr Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man. The movie version throws in in Dorian Gray and Tom Sawyer. If you want to see this concept done right, read the raphic novles and skip the movie.
O livro é a romanceação do guião do filme (que tive o cuidado de ver simultaneamente, mas sem legendas em Português). Por isso o livro foi-me um precioso auxílio para perceber aquilo que não tinha apanhado nas falas do filme.A acção tem o ritmo do filme, consegue reproduzir as piadas da coloquialidade e, no género, parece-me muito bom.O que achei estranho foi não acabar da mesma forma, ou seja, o filme abre a porta a uma sequela, ao contrário do livro em que tudo parece terminar quando os heróis da Liga destroem M na mongólia.
—Vasco Ribeiro
This is the novelisation of the recent movie. Set in 1899, this tells the story of a secret agency set up to combat the elusive 'Fantom', who is plotting to throw the world into war. The agency recruits the best. Allan Quartermain, Africa adventurer; Captain Nemo, Captain of the Nautilus; Henry Jekell and his alter ego Mr Hyde; Rodey Skinner, the Invisible Man; Dorian Gray, the indestructible; Mina Harker, beautiful survivor of the Dracula; and Tom Sawyer, the young American secret agent. But can their special powers be enough to combat the criminal mastermind? The novel hasn't got the depth and colour of the film, the characters a bit 2d, but still a good adventure read.
—Dark-Draco
