Extremely mediocre novelization of an okay movie. Readable but kind of dull ... not worth the efforts of two authors certainly.

A movie novelization. Almost the same as the movie. Short, without much new words for an English language learner.

I absolutely had to read this. Although, I'm not sure if I read this exact book, because I read the adult novelization, and all I could find on here was the children's novelization with pictures.. Anyways. I would have put it at five stars, but for the first half of the book the editing was shit. And this might be because I'm a total X-Men nerd, but they messed up Rogue's name, Marie, they put it as Mary. And then half way through the chapter they changed it to Marie, and then half way through t...

I liked this book, though I think the movie version is a little bit better. The book adds to what is done in the movie, giving the reader some background and more details which is good. I just think I prefer the movie version better as some of the differences really impact the story line. One being Wolverine's reason for giving Rogue his dog tags. In the movie, it's a promise he will return he verbally states to her. Only him giving them to her is in the book without this promise, which kind of

This novelization is completely all right for what it is. It's a short, reasonably well-written summation of the first X-Men movie and it's story and characters. Unfortunately, I've come away with a profound feeling of indifference. Authors Rusch and Smith don't really use the medium of literature to explore the characters more fully than can be done in a film, and consequently things just sort of happen, characters move from scene to scene and motivations change without any clear reasoning as t...

I have seen the X-Men movie multiple times, as I used to be a huge comic book fan. Although I could never get into the X-Men comic books, I love all super heroes. So it comes as no surprise that I absolutely was enraptured by this movie. The authors did a great job of transitioning the movie into a novel. I really enjoyed the beginning of the book where it showed Scott Summers (Cyclops), Ororo (Storm), and Marie (Rogue) coming into their powers, although the Rogue scene was in the movie. What yo...

4 Stars for X-Men Mostly because I just love wolverine.... Thoughts and Plots This was a decent film adaption. And I think it proves that books are almost ALWAYS better than the movie, even if the book is based off the movie. Why do I think this? Because books, done correctly, can cover what movies cannot. They can cover thoughts, feelings, background information, and deepen one's understanding of a character. They can cover the how, and the whys so much better!So, if you've watched the movie,...

This is actually a good novelization. The Wolverine in the book is closer to the Wolverine in the comics, much closer than the first movie's Wolverine is.

A very easy read, that took me no time at all to Finnish. Pretty much the movie beat for beat. There are a few additional scenes that aren’t in the film (as well as a few scenes that are written completely differently). We also get the thoughts and perspectives from characters that are completely absent in the movie. Bottom line, if you enjoyed the film and want a quick, easy read, then you will enjoy this book.

Have you ever wondered how cool it must be to have super powers?.Well i have and i know it would be very cool.In my novel that is X-Men by Krisine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith it is all about super heroes,In this novel their are special humans who have super powers not all of them do and the ones who do are called Mutants.This book is mainely about action so if you like action books,this will be a great book. In my novel it starts off with a boy and his family,and the boy is being taken

After the sorry excuse that was Terry Bisson's novelization of The Fifth Element, X-Men by Kristine Kahthryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith is a breath of fresh air. Rusch and Smith do what I want movie novelizations to do: expand on the film's story by letting us know more about the characters' backstories and what they're thinking, and adding extra scenes. The added chapters near the end involving a Secret Service agent are quite interesting, and was one of the novel's elements I remembered fondl...

Great for a novelization. Follows the movie plot-line but fills in some of the character back-stories and thoughts in a way that movies can't without taking too long.It allows you to spend a few more hours with characters that you like and even gain a slightly deeper understanding of their perspectives. If you liked the movie, you'll probably like the book.

This was a super fun experience. While I greatly enjoyed the changes the actors and director made on set, seeing some of those changes with the lingering bits of the '99 script was super interesting. I've seen the movie enough times that the changes made on set are ingrained in my memory so it was fun to see the last bits of the og script that were still hanging around when the book was written.

I grew up on the cartoons, not the comics. Wolverine has always been my favorite "comic-book character". Although I also love He-Man, Lion-O, Michaelangelo (Ninja Turles), etc., I never considered them "comic-book characters". I knew of the X-Men comics, I just didn't read them. Why would I when there were so many cartoons!?! Anywho, when the motion picture was announced, I was as excited as any other fan. As more movies continue to come out, and how excited the cast remains to play these roles,...

I always enjoy the novelization of popular movies, because you always get a little "behind the scenes" and several things that don't make it into the blockbuster thrillers. This book is no exception and I enjoyed the several instances where this occurred. One thing about the movies was the lack of Scott/Jean romance, because in the first movie, it already seems established and the moments we see between them are rather bland. The book gives a little insight into Scott's jealousy towards Logan an...

This is how the authors describe a young Magneto: “There was always something about metal he loved.” Really? Is that so? A mutant super villain named Magnet-o who hearts metal? That's uncanny! I wonder: did Archangel always have a thing for down pillows too?.

Really interesting as a sort of in-between document of the first X-Men movie--it bears much in common with the finished film, obviously, but there are a lot of vestiges of the 1999 script still hanging around. Makes me grateful for the movie we got, though, which had a lot of on-the-set rewrites that ultimately improved the hell out of it. The easiest example is comparing how Logan and Rogue meet each other. In the movie, she watches him fight in a cage match and then helps him out in a not-for-...

I miss Stan Lee :(

Tolerable. Has a few things the movie doesn't have. But it's fairly verbatim

*minor edits because phone was being an idiot*A good adaptation of the film, sometimes the writing is a bit dry\flat but overall I love it:-) Its nice too to see/hear some inner thoughts and scenes missing from the movie.In high school, I was a bit of an outcast, kept to myself and spent all of time in the library. These people/characters resonated with me then and still do:-) I felt less alone. Whenever I felt down or frustrated back then i would pop in the movies and pretend I was saving the w...