Planet of the Apes

By: Pierre. Boulle

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007BFBF10
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc.,
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Is it just a story?

I know different media call for different handling of the story. And most movies do not live up to the book. However, some exceed the book. Surprise, neither movie can live up to the book. If you thought that the movie 1968 versions were insightful, surprising, and shocking the first time you saw it. Then you definitely have lower expectations than the reader does. Especially with such a botched ending. The later movie version was more of an action film, yet the ending was much closer to the book. I will not go into the technical or psychological differences, as you will want to discover these for yourself as you read "Planet of the Apes." While sailing around in their solar sail-powered spaceship, a bottle is picked up. In the bottle is the message. "I am confiding this m-a-n-u-s-c-r-i-p-t to space, not with the intention of saving myself, but to help, perhaps, to avert the appalling scourge that is menacing the human race. Lord, pity us." And the story unfolds. They laugh at this ridiculous tale. Whether it is believable or not is up to you.