The Book Gourmet
Book reviews à la bookworm...The good, the bad, and everything in between.
The Fifth Element by Terry Bisson
I found this in my local library (not in the best of conditions) and read it without checking it out.
To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.
Yes, the plot follows the movie religiously (it is a screenplay novelization after all), but it looks like the author couldn't be bothered with doing anything more with the story than what there was. Some expansion of the universe and plot would've been welcome, especially since I know what the movie is all about.
There are screenplay novelizations that I loved ("Season 1" and "Season 2" of El Príncipe, for example), this one stands firmly on the other side of the scale.
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