Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization
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| ISBN-13: | 9781684152995 |
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| Publisher: | Archaia |
| Publication date: | 01/22/2019 |
| Series: | Labyrinth Series |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Sales rank: | 74,427 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.90(d) |
| Age Range: | 9 - 12 Years |
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Wonderful to finally have this back in print, and the extras are perfect for any Labyrinth fan
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“Everything. I have done everything you wanted…You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening…I have reordered time…I have turned the world upside down…And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”
I usually don’t read novelizations of movies, but it’s The Labyrinth! With Jareth! I’m not going to go into detail about the story, plot, and characters as those are basically the same as the movie. What I am going to point out are the major differences that sets the book apart from the movie.
First we have the back story on Sarah’s mother. In the movie we see newspaper clippings and photos in Sarah’s room of “Linda Williams” and the mysterious Jeremy (also played by David Bowie). If you get a chance to look closer at the newspapers it’s apparent that they were in a relationship on and offstage, so Sarah’s mother is an actress- which is where Sarah gets her love of theatre.
The book goes into detail and explains the relationship in more detail, such as Sarah and Jeremy get along very well and Jeremy treats Sarah as an adult- taking her to highclass restaurants with her mother. But it also implies that Sarah’s mother left her family for Jeremy, so we can kind of see why Sarah is a bit bratty under the circumstances of being spoiled/hurt.
I really do wish they would have found some way to incorporate the songs into the book. No, I don’t want to be reading the lyrics off of the page or have the characters break out into song, but the music of The Labyrinth is so much a part of the movie that reading its novelization without having even pieces of the music lingering made some scenes fall really flat.
What fans will really want this book for is the early concept art by Brian Froud and Jim Henson’s personal journal pages! I always love watching the extras on DVDs and thumbing through movie-art books. Seeing the early stages of Henson’s ideas on The Labyrinth and Froud’s critters that didn’t make the movie makes the book worth purchasing on its own.
Overall, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: The Novelization is a great addition to any fans’ collection.
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If you're a fan of the Labyrinth movie you most definantly need to get this book, I'm barely on the third chapter but I already love it! It's as if you're watching the movie in your mind except with much more detail and explanation. If you haven't seen the movie I still recommend this book!
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Great read! The extras are amazing and help elaborate on the story line.
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