The Core

By Dean Wesley Smith

Book Overview

THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL BASED ON THE MOVIE FROM PARAMOUNT PICTURES THE CORE Seventeen people who wear pacemakers in New York City all die suddenly... A flock of birds in England suddenly go insane...... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743463986
• ISBN13: 9780743463980
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Journey to the Earth's...

When books are based on screenplays, you have to try and figure out what of the book is original to the author and what originates in the screenplay. This book is no different.Imagine the movie Armageddon, but with the heroes traveling in the opposite direction. Like in Armageddon, a series of sudden events leads to the discovery that the world is about to be destroyed. A team is assembled, trained, and launched into the interior of the planet carrying a massive nuclear payload (1000 megatons).There are perils along the way and the action moves at a very quick pace. Definitely fun.Also like Armageddon, most of accepted physics is thrown out the window (and some really stupid designs in the ship).All of this is very nicely captured and retold by Mr. Smith. Action movies appeal to a different set of brain cells than novels, but Smith does a very good job of getting the feeling of the movie across in book form.This is a very good adaptation of a silly action movie (it is also cheaper than an average theater ticket and will last most readers more than two hours).Not to be confused with Deepcore, the boring film Terry Farrell left Deep Space Nine for.