February 07, 2006

(Chevy Chase & Benji are...) Oh Heavenly Dog

Author:: Joe Camp (based on the screenplay by Rod Browning and Joe Camp)
Pages: 139 (plus eight pages of full color photos!)
Setting: London
Means of Aquiration: Picked it up for free at a "bookmobile" (read: library cart full of free books) at the airport.
Literary Merit None whatsoever. It is a good fluff read, though. (Though if you've seen the movie, don't bother trying to find the novelisation. They can hardly be different at all.)
Bizarre visuals: The cover features a cute picture of Benji (the dog) smoking a cigar. Weird.

This book is exactly what I expected it to be--short, easy to read, campy, and from 1980. The cover boasts Now a Major Motion Picture Presentation from Twentieth Century Fox, and I'm not sure what that means. It was cleary published after the "motion picture presentation" came out, because it features stills from the movie. Also, it is based on the script. And what is a "motion picture presentation," anyway?

I can't recommend the book (although I've got nothing against it... I just feel that I would lose my credibility if I did), but the movie's probably decent. Between the two, I would choose to watch the movie, as most of the humor in this comes from the fact that the main character (spoiler! Sort of!) gets turned into a dog. Visual humor, you see. Despite best intentions, it doesn't come across too well on paper.

Even having said that, though, there's no better book to read for forty minutes whilst flying between Milwaukee and Minneapolis. It served its purpose well.

Posted by Sara at February 7, 2006 01:08 PM
Comments

The book is good and is easy to be read

Posted by: sandra at January 6, 2007 11:34 AM

Any way of getting Motion Pictures Presentation from Twentieth Century Fox?

Posted by: Vickie at January 6, 2007 01:25 PM

Is that a Big Presentation

Posted by: Andi at January 31, 2007 02:21 PM

I like the Book

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Presentation is well organized. Nice.

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Which Motion Pictures Presentation

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