I think most of us who love the Aliens movies (at least the first two) have made our peace with this one. So there are things to like and things to hate. To complete this roller coaster ride, Guinness does and AMAZING job reading Aliens 3. The new developments/changes are both illogical and implausible. Also disappointing is how the appearance and behavior of the aliens radically depart from the earlier movies in Aliens 3. But (sigh) it is VERY hard to get past the meaningless deaths of Newt and Hicks in the first chapter, which steps on all the work the writers did in Aliens 2 to develop more characters for the franchise. I have always liked the premise, aliens preying on XXY killers imprisoned in an abandoned mineworks and kept in check by asceticism. I have roundly criticized Foster's lackluster novelization of the near-perfect Aliens movie (the second in the franchise) but he really does a great job with the much-maligned third entry in the series. Plot Holes Propped Up by Writing/Narration! Please find this complete review and many others at my review blog Audiobook was purchased for review by ABR. Great storytelling and very good narration. The terror is really felt when the alien shows its ugly head! Not my favorite of the three but still on par with the first. His voice lets the listener fall into the story and forget that there is a real world around them. Brilliant work, yet again, by Peter Guinness. The second is still my favorite but the plot twists and the things that happen in this one were not foreseen.
Being on a prison world filled with me, what else would Ripley do? This book held up to the first two, which is surprising.
Although, she gets herself into quite a few messes in this one. Surprisingly there are quite a few characters in this that are heroic and even outshine the marines! I was worried at times but at others so glad that Ripley had some of these individuals around her.
I was on the edge of my seat wondering where there danger was going to come from. Not having an idea of this book made it all the more scary. Thank goodness she is more determined than ever but the beginning of this really made me feel for her. The beginning was tragic, yet again, and Ripley is set on another quest to kill aliens. I know them and have know them for years. The great part about these novelizations is that I can already see the characters. I know I have seen it at some point but after listening to the first three books, now I really want to watch it again. This is the movie I did not remember as well as the first two.
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