- Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Del Rey; First Edition edition (Jun 6 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0345440951
- ISBN-13: 978-0345440952
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 1.7 x 17.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #779,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As every fan knows, the X-Men made their Marvel Comics debut in 1963. Like other Marvel crime-fighters, these oddly assorted mutants have both superpowers and terrible personal hang-ups. Now an established writing partnership has novelised the X-Men movie from 20th Century Fox.
The storyline follows the recurring X-Men theme of mutants being feared and persecuted by humanity--not helped by the minority who use their powers for evil. Here the comics' bad guy Magneto is less wicked than misguided, aiming to defuse prejudice with a Machine that pumps superpowers into ordinary folk, such as anti-mutant US Senators. Unfortunately this scientific genius neglected to research the side effects.
Meanwhile, telepathic Professor Charles Xavier teaches his X-Men recruits to handle their abilities and neuroses: Cyclops (destructive red eye-beams), Rogue (drains souls), Storm (controls weather), Wolverine (super-strength, extensible claws).
"I opened this school, a place where mutants could be safe from persecution. This is a place where they could not only learn to focus their powers, but also learn that mankind is not evil. Just uninformed."
Colourful, kinetic fight sequences abound, especially towards the climax of Magneto's master plan. These scenes cry out for stunning artwork or lavish film SFX; our authors do their best with mere words. Their competent storytelling will be best appreciated by comics' aficionados and lovers of the movie, who'll have clear images of Marvel's bizarre, exotic characters and costumes. --David Langford --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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It's the movie event of the year--and the action-packed book you've been waiting for.
Outcasts from society, the X-MEN are genetic mutants, born with superhuman powers, who harness their special abilities for the greater good. But the human race they fight to protect rejects and fears--even hates--them.
Not all mutants seek to protect mankind. One terrorist group--led by the supremely powerful Magneto--seeks to strike first. Battling against prejudice and agents of intolerance, the X-MEN must establish a peaceful coexistence between mutant and mankind or they will surely perish . . .
Outcasts from society, the X-MEN are genetic mutants, born with superhuman powers, who harness their special abilities for the greater good. But the human race they fight to protect rejects and fears--even hates--them.
Not all mutants seek to protect mankind. One terrorist group--led by the supremely powerful Magneto--seeks to strike first. Battling against prejudice and agents of intolerance, the X-MEN must establish a peaceful coexistence between mutant and mankind or they will surely perish . . .
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Possibly Worse then Daredevil!,
By Zach (Area 51) - See all my reviews
This review is from: X-Men (Mass Market Paperback)
If any of you have read my reveiw for Daredevil you know what i mean. I hated the Daredevil Movie Tie-In and i did not like this one that much either. For starters I am a huge fan of the X-Men ( Wolverine is my favoerite! ) In the book Wolverine has four claws that come out of his nucles. Well and body who has seen the movies, or read a comics knows that he only has three claws that come out from in between the nucles. After reading that the book just wasn't the best for me. Too much was changed from the movie. Overall: Well...It is an easy read, but not up to par.
3.0 out of 5 stars
be happy with the movie,
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This review is from: X-Men (Mass Market Paperback)
I like movie novelizations where both the movie and the book are good, but in different ways. The things that happen in this book are almost exactly the same as the things that happened in the movie - I was impressed that it could be this accurate and still be such a short book. There are a few things in the book that weren't in the movie at all, such as, at the beginning, parts that explain what it was like for Cyclops and Storm when they first got their powers. That was nice. Still, it felt like this book managed to leech all the excitement out of the story. It was a faithful book, but not a very fun one.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not that good for hard-core addicts,
By "ashgirl2go" (The East Coast) - See all my reviews
This review is from: X-Men (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was okay, for a book. If anyone who reads books was to pick it up they would probably like it. Actually it's quite a good book if you don't know much about x-men in general and just saw the movie, or something like that.However, for people who actually read the comics, like me, it seems to be poorly lacking information and using members of the team like Storm and Cyclops as characters who's backgrounds are very skecthy. Over all I didn't care for it very much, but that doesn't mean that everyone will feel this way. As I said before the book itself is very well writen, but the facts of the x-men seemed not nearly as good as they should have been.
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