I used to love collecting hardback modern movie tie-ins.
My only rule was that they needed to have the dustjacket.
There is something essentially satisfying about a hardback novel with its colour jacket in place.
Although I haven't read them all here are some of my fave finds.
Jaws. Read. Digested.
Callan Russian Roulette, not read. Watched the TV series with Edward Wooodwoodward as a kid. I remember a lightbulb?
Street Hawk, superbike TV series I never saw. You? [this is a paperback]
Firefox, not read. A Clint Eastwood superjet movie.
Marathan Man. Read. Grimaced.
Stars Dustin and the dentist as well as Roy Scheider who starred in Jaws.
Maybe this should have been called Gums.
Have you got any hardback or paperback movie ti-ins?
I have quite a big collection of tv tie-ins. Mainly paperbacks. Amazingly they still make them, I'm reading one for Versailles at the moment!
ReplyDeleteIs that a TV programme Kev? I'm just finishing All The Presidents Men. The film's better than the book I feel.
DeleteThank you for mentioning Russian Roulette. I had not realised there were in fact five books in the Callan series by James Mitchell.
DeleteI read 'A Magnum for Schneider' before it was made into a TV play. It was so popular on TV that a series, CALLAN was created. At that point a paperback of the book was released renamed Red File for Callan. It seems four more volumes followed.
As regards movie tie-ins I do have the novel of Forbidden Planet written after the movie based on tye script and of course War of the Worlds and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea which were best sellers long before the movie adaptions.
Beau Geste should be on your list as well as the movie with Ray Milland and Gary Cooper.
I used to collect copies of TwentyThousand Leagyes Under the Sea Terran. In fact any Jules Verne vintage books. I shall blog the collection one day. I also had lots of The Saint novels at one time. Sold them all on Amazon i think.
DeleteYep, 'Versailles' is a tv show. Drama set in court of Louis XIV. Just finished its third and final season on BBC2. It's very good.
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