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Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9781416548096 ISBN: 1416548092 Label: Pocket Star Manufacturer: Pocket Star Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: April 24, 2007 Publisher: Pocket Star Sales Rank: 775695 Studio: Pocket Star
Product Description: Adventurers. Celebrities. Family. They are the Fantastic Four, the world's greatest Super Hero™ team: scientific genius Reed Richards, with the ability to stretch and contort his body into any shape imaginable; the beautiful Susan Storm, who can render herself invisible and create and project powerful force fields; Sue's brother, Johnny Storm, who can engulf his body in flames and take flight at will; and Ben Grimm, whose freakish transmutation turns him into an orange-colored, rock-like, superhumanly strong creature.
Now the Fantastic Four meet their greatest challenge yet, as anenigmatic, intergalactic herald comes to Earth -- to prepare it for destruction. As the mysterious alien being races around the globe, wreaking havoc and leaving utter chaos in its wake, Reed, Sue, Johnny, and Ben must find a way to confront this devastating force...even as a new threat looms in the surprising return of their mortal enemy, Victor Von Doom, who harbors his own deadly machinations for them all....
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Super Reader
for a Hollywood writer and editor.
Pretty clearly not a novelist of any note (or at all, even), as the writing in this is very low, although the dialogue parts can still entertain.
The Silver Surfer comes to Earth to set up the planet so Gah Lak Tus can snack on it. The Four are asked to help stop this by the military, who also bring in Doctor Doom. Never a good idea tempting supervillain dictators with extremely powerful alien technology of destruction.
Then its time for some Fantasticar action, and surfer and world saving.
Rating: - A Fantastic Book
This is a very good book i liked it alot and i think people will like it as well as i did. If you like the f.f. then you'll like this book. and don't forget to read Fantastic Four the movie novel by Peter David.
Rating: - Disappointing
Warning, this may contain spoilers for the book if you are planning on reading it.
The Silver Surfer was introduced in Fantastic Four comic #48... The sequence played over the new few months to culminate in a final confrontation between the FF and Galactus, which caused the surfer to be bound to Earth. There are a lot of differences between the original story and this story, but we have seen that in all the recent Marvel movie adaptations.
The book itself appeared to be rushed to make it out when the movie hit the streets. The editor did a poor job of catching sentence structure and tense. The author did a poor job of keeping time sense and story content together as the book moved on (why else would he not want his real name associated with this book).
One chapter declares the FF have 48 hours to save the world. Later in the same chapter, they talk about several days passing since that deadline is mentioned.
Another section describes Johnny's powers swapping at touch, but yet he hugs Ben at one point and no power swap. Then later he touches all, including a dying Susan, to absorb all their powers and somehow retains his own for the upcoming fight with Victor Von Doom. Sounds like Super Skrull was inserted here.
Also, earlier we saw how the surfer transmuted Victor from the fight to another location because he was a pest, not because he was doing any real damage to the surfer, but when Victor had these same powers and was demonstrating powers that the surfer hadn't thought about, he seemed unable to pull off the same transmutation on Johnny when this fight was going on.
Also during this fight, Victor loses full track of Johnny as he becomes invisible, but Norrin Rad senses Susan in his cell even separated from his board.
Finally, Galatus (spelled Gah Lak Tus in the book) appears on the scene to absorb the world, but instead leaves to chase the surfer with no intervention from those on Earth. Very inconsistant since there is no reason found in the book to demonstrate why he should leave before absorbing all life from the planet.
In the midst of all this story, you have Victor Von Doom fighting for power and showing extreme jealousy of Reed and his love of Sue Storm. The original comics had it better with the contest of science between Reed and Victor (which is also mentioned in this series as a side note and secondary).
And rather than credit Reed's inventions and contributions as the means to financially back the FF (as in the comics), the book seems to think there is no money in science and instead makes Johnny the money maker with marketing ploys of FF merchandise.
The story is ok, but could have been much better if they had taken the time to edit it properly and remove the inconsistancies and grammer found throughout the book.
Obviously I think it could have been great if they had adapted the original line in the comics over that which I found here, but can acknowledge that some changes in the story are necessary over the years. I just wish they had thought them through before introducing them here, so there wouldn't be the rushed feeling found in the book.
Rating: - Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
It was good i love to F.F comic and movie...so any book of the F.F is always a good read.
Rating: - Decent book
The book didn't (I think) add a whole lot to the story as presented in the movie, but it was a good read.
- Super Reader
- A Fantastic Book
- Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer
