the book
This is based off a book....has anyone who read it think it goes faithfully along with it? Just curious.
shareI tried reading the book but gave up just before half way, which coincided with where the movie ends. What happened in the second half of the book I have no idea.
I found the book to be a long-winded rambling affair with Hubbard just writing on autopilot. Once the plot has established that Terl wants gold and that Johnny wants to boot the aliens out, both characters seem to take an eternity doing just that.
Main points:
The events in the book occur over a much, much longer period of time, which at least gives some plausability to the humans learning how to read & become educated.
The psychlo's just arrived on Earth one day and booted the humans aside. When Terl meets Johnny, it's the first time Terl has seen a human. It's never really established who is doing the mining (and like the movie, mining for what).
The psychlo's spend a lot of time back-stabbing each other, just like the movie.
Johnny learns about radiation and realises it's what is causing his people to die out. But he never goes back to his village to tell them.
The psycho's made _no_ attempt to learn English despite having the resources to do so (Johnny used these same resources to learn how to read). When Johnny establishes a base in an old american army camp/weapons depot the psycho's have no idea he's up to something despite all the signs and notices everywhere.
The psyhco's atmosphere explodes on contact with radiation, just like the movie.
That's about all I can remember. The book is probably out of print. But I wouldn't make the effort of finding a copy as you're not missing much.
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Johnny learns about radiation and realises it's what is causing his people to die out. But he never goes back to his village to tell them.
It's been ages sine I've read the book, but I thought Johnny did tell his village but the elders wouldn't believe him.
When it comes to bad writing, bad acting, no one does it like the 'SyFy' channel.
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The psychlo's just arrived on Earth one day and booted the humans aside. When Terl meets Johnny, it's the first time Terl has seen a human. It's never really established who is doing the mining (and like the movie, mining for what).
its not. Terl actualyl bought humasn from the colony in africa to torture for fun. this is discussed in thel atter part of the book. they also list a lot of metals Psychlos are mining for. they are doing it themself with help of machinery, thus a lot of Psychlo workers.
Johnny learns about radiation and realises it's what is causing his people to die out. But he never goes back to his village to tell them.
He does go there, warns them, they refuse to leave at first but they leave eventually.
The psycho's made _no_ attempt to learn English despite having the resources to do so (Johnny used these same resources to learn how to read). When Johnny establishes a base in an old american army camp/weapons depot the psycho's have no idea he's up to something despite all the signs and notices everywhere.
Psychlos have though thier language to be superior and refused to learn any other language. like many people on earth does now. They are using old military SCHOOL as base for thier mining operation. they hide their weapons well.
The psyhco's atmosphere explodes on contact with radiation, just like the movie.
It takes 5 bombs to shatter the crust of the landing pad area which alows a supervolcano to take over the planet and it becomes a massive lava ball. the atmosphere never explodes from radiation. the fallback from that also destrys most of psychlo colonies.
All in all, you suck at reading. stick to trasnformers or something.
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