Monday, April 06, 2020

Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg

(1977; movie tie-in novel)

From the back cover

“Earth’s greatest adventure had begun. The world was being readied for. . . Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

“To Claude LeCombe, director of an international silence group, it meant the culmination of a search that drove him to the globe’s farthest corners.

“To Julian Guiler, it meant the last shred of hope for the recovery of her little son who disappeared on the most extraordinary night of her life.

“To Roy Neary, it meant an answer to the startling mystery that had increasingly driven him to the emotional edge.

“And to the rest of humanity, it meant the beginning of the most dramatic event in the history of the world.

“It will lead to the inescapable conclusion: we are not alone.”


Review

The book version of Close is a solid read. It doesn’t add anything new for those familiar with the film, but it’s an entertaining distraction if you’re bored at work (where I read it), waiting at the DMV or someplace like that. 

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