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[zencat]

We all the DAD novelization comes out at least 3 weeks before DAD opens in theaters, so I ask the question: Will anyone read the DAD novelization BEFORE seeing the film?

[Mister Asterix]

If my willpower to not read the The World Is Not Enough novelisation is any indication, I will being reading the Die Another Day novelisation the day it comes out.

[Blue Eyes]

Ah yes, I fall in to exactly the same boat.

This is how it stands for me.

First off, I need to write a review for CBn. That's important for the site. So I guess I'll have to read it around its publication date.

If I got it beforehand? Well chances are, I'd read it straight away.

When I went to see GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies I knew nothing of the plot and I enjoyed the film. I enjoy the film just as much on the 50th viewing. I don't lose anything from knowing the plot really. Bond doesn't have any 'great twists' like The Usual Suspects does, so I don't think you lose too much by reading the novelisation before seeing the film.

[Mourning Becomes Electra]

If it was six months before I'd probably break down and read it, but a few weeks when I've waited this long for the film, no. I'd rather see the film first before reading the novelization. There's nothng like seeing a film for the first time, even if it's just as enjoyable the 2nd or 22nd time around it's still never the same as the first time. So I'd rather SEE the story first with Tamahori's vision, PB's acting, Vic Armstrongs stunts etc and then read about it after.

[PaulZ108]

I've already spoiled too much for myself (damn script) and I think it'd be best to save any remaining surprises for the film.

[HUNTER C.]

After failing my strengths last time with TWINE and reading the novelization, I've learned my lesson. TWINE the novelization had a lot more to offer that wasn't present in the film. Plus, I knew a lot of stuff that was going to happen. I'm hoping that memory is enough to hold me back by the time the book becomes available. If I got my hands on that, I know that I'd be like "well I wonder what the pre-titles will be like" and then after that be like "well it can't be too bad if I see what happens after the titles" and before you know it I'd finished half the book. The novelizations of movies are always better to read AFTER you see the film.

[rafterman]

I won't read it until I've seen the film....I already know too much about the movie as it is.....the novelization will be a treat for after I've seen the movie like five or six times...

[General Koskov]

After reading one too many unexpected spoilers, I've heard enough of the plot to not want to spoil the film for which it was written. If Die Another Day was a film based on a Benson book written as a book, then I'd read the book, but a novelisation is making a novel out of a film, therefore I watch the 'original' context first. As I did with the classic 007 films: I read the Fleming books first (exeptions were Live And Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun, Diamonds Are Forever (I think), and perhpas one other) because although Fleming did want them to be filmed, he wrote them as books, not as novelisations.

Not that novelisations are bad: I liked The Spy Who Loved Me by Wood, and Licence To Kill was alright, but the rule still applies: the films were made first (although I'm not so sure about Wood's, as he wrote the screenplay...) and although it was by chance, I saw the films first.

[Hardyboy]

Won't do it. In fact, I've read only the Wood novelizations, and I got to those more than 20 years after the films were made. . .maybe in another 20 years I'll want to give Benson's novelizations a shot.

[Tim007]

I hope I can resist... I don't want to read it before the film is out...

[Mister Asterix]

Wait, a minute. Didn't MGM tell us that it would be best to find out everything when actually watching the film? Why aren't they protecting us from this evil novelisation that will without doubt reveal way more than those little script fragments ever did? Are they going to shut down Amazon.com and bn.com to protect me from such evil? I would certainly hope so, because God forbid I learn anything about the film in advanced.

[rafterman]

oh man that's good Mr. *....hehehehehe

[scaramanga1]

Yeah, that'll be the next thing the publication of the novel will be delayed, by the criminal mastermingdat that dangerous criminal society that goes under the title "Melodramatic Greedy Mother's" or MGM for short!

Personally, I'll try and wait until I've seen the film - but it will be hard.
I just hope that I have the stregnth needed to get through such a dilemma!

[Tim007]

I love it, Evan

[Blue Eyes]

Ah yes you're right Evan! MGM are going to have to shut themselves down, or maybe Eon, for allowing a publication date before the release date!

[14 20 02]

When the book comes out i will buy it but i will not read it until after i see DAD at the cinema. I am going to resit tempation which will be very difficult.

Does anyone know exactly which day DAD book will come out in the UK?

Thanks.

[zencat]

Originally posted by 14 20 02
Does anyone know exactly which day DAD book will come out in the UK?

Amazon shows a Nov. 7th release date in the UK. U.S. is Nov. 5th.

Incredibly, the audio book shows an Oct. 1st release date on BN.com (for the unabridged version). That's just two weeks away!

http://search.barnes...isbn=1590865146

[Blue Eyes]

I don't think it is actually Zencat. I've been told October 28 for it.

[zencat]

It's weird. The Oct. 28 dates shows up on the regular audio book, but this more expensive unabridged version shows this Oct. 1 date.

It could very well be a mistake.

[Blue Eyes]

More expensive unabriged? Can I be a bugger and ask for the links to all the ones you know of (US Version)? I can only seem to find the listed Oct 28.

[The Admiral]

I'll certainly be reading it before the film I won't be able to stop myself.

[zencat]

Originally posted by Blue Eyes
More expensive unabriged? Can I be a bugger and ask for the links to all the ones you know of (US Version)? I can only seem to find the listed Oct 28.

Here's the link Blue Eyes. Click on Benson's name and you'll get the full list of his books, including the DAD audio books.

http://search.barnes...isbn=1590865146

[General Koskov]

Abridged audio is ****. I listened to an abridged Live And Let Die book. They cut out the part about either Leiter getting mauled, or Solitaire getting kidnapped.

[Galijun]

This is my first post.
Since I come from Croatia, I will have to wait for coupl of weeks 'till book arrives. And that could be after I see the film.

[Blue Eyes]

Damn look at that Zencat! October 1! I do think there's an error there though. Maybe they didn't have a release date for it so they just put the 1 as a mandatory number or something?

[zencat]

I think it might be a mistake, Blue Eyes. Look closely at the details of the listings. It says "unabridged" in the details of the abridged version. I think these listings are a bit screwy.

We'll know in a few weeks.

[Jim]

No

[zencat]

WHEN are we going to get a pic of the UK cover art on Amazon? Geeze. This time we didn't even get proof art.

[General Orlov]

As soon as the novel is available to me, I'll start reading it. I can see the point about the original context, but that won't stop me.

I read Gardner's GE-novelization before I watched the movie, and it got me even more excited about the movie to come. Same with Benson's TWINE-novel which I bought on vacation in New York (lucky coincidence I was there when the book came out) and read on the plane back to Germany (at least most of it).

With TND it was different. I tried to avoid as many spoilers as possible and I did very well at that. But then in the cinema, I was so hoping that the movie would be as good as I wished it to be. But I didn't know what was to come. I had great expectations and all the time I was hoping that everything would be as I liked it in a Bond-movie. So I was kind of scared while watching TND, that something might go wrong (Jaws stepping around a corner or whatever).

So, this time, I want to know as soon as possible, what the movie will be like. Either to be even more eager to see it or to be less disappointed afterwards.

[RossMan]

I'll be reading it as soon as I get my hands on it.

Nov. 5, soon as can I'll be at the store to get a copy. I'm not even going to try to resist reading the thing.