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Aliens
- The Official Movie Novelization
- Narrated by: William Hope
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Returned to Earth, Ellen Ripley learns that a colony has been established on LV-426, the planet where the crew of the Nostromo found the original Alien.
But contact with the colonists has been lost, so she must accompany a unit of colonial marines to discover their fate. And to destroy any Aliens found on the planet known as Acheron.
This is a groundbreaking sequel by science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster, with the wonderful characters and rapid-fire action that make Aliens one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.
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- Sarah
- 25-01-2017
Fantastic
If you could sum up Aliens in three words, what would they be?
An engaging listen
What other book might you compare Aliens to, and why?
Alien
What does William Hope bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
He tries to emulate the voices of the characters and does quite well!
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes
Any additional comments?
Great listen, narrator did well in copying the characters voices from the film which in my opinion was terrific. Only complaint was the a lot of the dialogue was changed/missing compared to the film, it is a movie novelisation so I'm unsure why this happened. Also they cut all swearing, I found this odd as it's a horror book and some of the best lines had a cheeky curse word in, I could get past this until the iconic line "Get away from her you B*TCH" was changed to "Get away from her.....YOU!" lol bit anti climatic ;) overall a great listen.
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- Samantha
- 21-04-2016
Excellent as always
Thoroughly enjoyed it, will narrated and I love the preview for the next book at the end. Can't wait to get the next book. Thank you
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- Jess Stehbens
- 17-06-2019
Only one small problem.
I generally don’t mind swearing. Sometimes I find it unnecessary, sometimes I find it very necessary. Getting rid of all the swearing in the movie novelisation is a bit much. But one bit of the story, in particular, was hurt by the lack of swearing. “Get way from her you.” Kinda sounds like Ripley is saying “I’mma hurt you.” Instead of the “Get away from my daughter!”
But other than that small thing, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the book version off Aliens. Highly recommend anyone who’s a fan of the Alien series, or just horror books in general.
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- Jo
- 14-10-2022
Emd
Ending is a fizzer. True to screenplay and good as the Alien series is but the changed ending is a let down.
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- Matt
- 28-03-2022
Awesome!!!
great listen easy to follow damn good! just as exciting as when i first watched the original
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- Sean
- 16-12-2022
LEARN TO PRONOUNCE WORDS
The repeated use of 'ash-er-on" a@ the planet's name instead to the correct "ak-er-on" is infuriating. when will bloody American narrators learn how to pronounce ancient words, Greek in this case.
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- Mick
- 24-12-2022
A classic
The story is pretty true to the movie but where is the knife scene between Bishop and Hudson? Excellent performance by William Hope and superbly written by Alan Dean Foster. I enjoyed this immensely and enjoyed every second!
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- Anonymous User
- 05-10-2021
Depends on your expectations.
Great story and narration, but ads effectively nothing to the movie plot. It’s literally the movie in word form.
Being spoiled by the dramatic upgrades of Michael Crichton books vs movie upgrades, this was a bit of a let down.
Still for what it is it was a great listen. Won’t make the shelf though.
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- Kindle Customer
- 27-04-2019
Good story, but not well read
Have recently been listening to River of Pain. Much preferred that reading. Really good effects. This story really needs redoing in that style. Dirk Maggs directs these other stories really well.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-07-2023
I am dumbfounded
I love this universe, story, screenplay and definitely the movie. I loved the little bits of additional context and slight variation in this audiobook. Despite all this, I spent the entire audiobook being distracted from immersion, by what I can only assume to be the inexplicable approach to censorship in the USA. Inserting other word in place of others that I would barely consider to be even curses, while going into the expected level of detail about bursting chests, flesh burning acid and epic gun action, is utterly ridiculous. I started to wonder if I had down-loaded a G version of the story by accident? Having listened through other books from the author, I can’t think it was his doing? Is it the person reading that chose to remove all strong language?
I’d love to know, because this ruined my experience with what may be an all time favourite story of mine.
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