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bookstalgic's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
3.75
wookieeatemyshoe's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
thluke91's review against another edition
adventurous
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Kongs story is traffic and the cruelty he suffers at the hands of man really makes you think.
wflegias's review against another edition
4.0
Es un buen libro, la historia de King Kong no me llamaba la atención pero fue una suerte encontrar el libro y poder leerlo. La historia esta centrada en la aventura de la tripulación que fue a descubrir el misterio en una isla remota, es este viaje el que hace al libro increíble. Lo que me contrastó (es mi opinión personal) con el final del libro, el cual es rápido y me dejó pasmado.
mrwcc's review against another edition
5.0
Fantastic from beginning to end. A real lesson in pacing from a novella which longer books could learn a real lesson from.
As good as if not better than the iterations of the film.
As good as if not better than the iterations of the film.
olenareads's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
spookybookylonnie's review against another edition
4.0
So many of us have seen some version of a film adaptation of King Kong at some point or another. I really enjoyed this read. Making us feel so many emotions for this monster at once is a really powerful writing tool and has stood the test of time.
ferrisscottr's review against another edition
1.0
If you grew up when I grew up (the 1970's) in an era before cable, before satellite, before computers and the internet you LIVED for the weekend afternoon movies and I can't overstate how important those movies were to us kids. We lived for The Blob, Dracula, Godzilla, Frankenstein etc. but none were more important than King Kong.
Greatest monster movie ever!
Yes this is a novelization of the movie and not an original novel but you have to try really hard to take a movie as exciting as King Kong and turn it into a boring book that I could not wait to get done with.
Dreadful writing, boring prose, sleepy action scenes.
This was really really bad.
Greatest monster movie ever!
Yes this is a novelization of the movie and not an original novel but you have to try really hard to take a movie as exciting as King Kong and turn it into a boring book that I could not wait to get done with.
Dreadful writing, boring prose, sleepy action scenes.
This was really really bad.
inuklilacdiesel's review against another edition
1.0
I’ll update this later with a longer response, but this was incredibly hard to read. I guess I just don’t enjoy reading bigoted text in mass quantities like some people.
echoesofhorror1976's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Vintage pulp Beauty and the Beast story at it's best. Must read for the classic monster movie fans!