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The Dark Knight (2008)

by Dennis O'Neil(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0425222861 (ISBN13: 9780425222867)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Berkley

series

Dark Knight Trilogy

review 1: It pains me to give only three stars to this book, but I really have no choice. Dennis O'Neil has utterly failed to capture the spirit of the movie. He gave a lot of unnecessary info at the beginning of the novel, some of it probably inspired not from the movie, but from his own experience from comic books. As a result, it sounds fanficy. But the bad thing is that when the interesting part of the story begins, O'Neil is telling in an extremely dull way - everything is rushed and he never offers the reader a glimpse to what happens in the mind of the characters, and when he does, like in the case of Lucius Fox, he gets it all wrong. My personal opinion is that the downfall of the author of this novel is pride - he is an old Batman author and probably believed that he knows ... morethe hero and Gotham better than Christopher Nolan. What he obviously failed to understand is that Nolan has created a new Batman, one who is massively better than anything authors like O'Neil have come up with. As a result, you have a five star story and a two star writing, if I am generous and this can't result with overall rating higher than three stars. Thankfully the Rises adaptation was given to Greg Cox, who did a much better, even if not truly spectacular job. To see how to make a memorable adaptation of a great movie, check the "The Revenge of the Sith" novelization by Matthew Stover.
review 2: The book I read is called the dark knight. This book has the same plot and story and characters as the movie the reason why I read it was because I wanted to see how the story of the dark knight can be portrayed in book/story from. I thought that the book was good introducing everything but they missed some key things that I saw at the movie and not here in the book which I thought hurt the book little bit. So I was wondering why they wouldn’t add those details and key elements. So this book did have me a little mad because the movie was better but it just has me thinking about movies that are made into books and how the same details won’t be in there. But overall it was a good read but not what I was expecting. less

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