![]() ![]() At multiple points, the characters of the book get these internal monologues that really dig into what they're thinking about, their histories, and their anxieties. So my favorite part about Friday the 13th is what Hawke did with the characters. Hawke knew when to get in and get out, but I can't help but feel the experience wasn't quite enough length-wise. Yet somehow, this book turned out so short still. (Just for the record, I love Friday the 13th despite its flaws, but it's hard not to criticize it when I'm talking about it in this context.) So trying to really dig deeper into the screenplay to extend the book would have been a bad idea, I think. But while I wish it was longer, I'd be lying if I said the movie had a ton of depth and potential to mine. It took me just two sessions on two separate days to finish it. It is so short! I hardly have anything to talk about with this review. But that leads to my next, much more forgivable point, which is. I do appreciate that the ending was essentially abridged from the screenplay, because it goes on for WAY too long in the movie (though there are some highlights). It doesn't make it feel like a waste of time, but it does feel odd that pretty much everything is suddenly done away with for the sake of a chase scene. Everything you learn about the Alice Hardy and the camp and a few other things are just thrown out the window. Now granted, the final act is also pretty weak in the movie, and it seems like Simon Hawke was analyzing the screenplay and thinking "oh, I can add this for this character, and this can happen in this moment that references this." But when it came to the ending, where everything was revealed and the chase happens, there was virtually no room for any real character stuff. My biggest one, and the one that honestly keeps this book from being four stars, is the final act. Of course, I still have problems with this book, which I'll get into, but this was a solid, fun little read. It does what I was saying the 2018 Halloween adaptation should've done: It added more to the characters and the plot through methods the movie couldn't perform. I actually enjoy this novelization of Friday the 13th, more than I anticipated I would. I've been looking for a way to read this book for months now, and I found on the Friday the 13th wiki that at least this one and Part II have been uploaded to the Internet Archive! I used the audio feature which is like an early iOS Siri reading it, so some words got lost in robotic translation but I got pretty much everything, I'm pretty sure. ![]()
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