It’s been pointed out before that there’s a novelization of Snakes on a Plane listed on Amazon. Well, yours truly snagged himself two early copies of the book, set to be released in July (although I’ve heard that some booksellers have already received copies). Here are some pictures of me enjoying it:
Since I didn’t want to ruin the ending, I’m only going to read the first chapter, but I’ve sent the second copy of the book off to CrazyMonk. When he’s not busy working at the Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, he is going to read it and provide us with a full review detailing literary merit, amount of swearing… stuff like that. He’s pretty smart, so expect refrences to indie music, David Foster Wallace and foreign cinema.
To tide you over until then, here’s the first paragraph from the novel:
Sean Jones was seventeen, handsome and tan with a sturdy surfer’s build and an easy smile. He was born and grew up in Waimea Bay, Oahu and considered himself Hawaiian, nearly native, even though he was about as physically far from a Pacific Islander as he could be. He loved his home island, with all its flaws and all its contradictions. The tourists and pro surfers, cantankerous locals and hippies, tattoo artists, frat boys and hula girls. The beauty and the poverty, the unspoiled natural vistas and the nonstop sleazy human hustle. Lush jungle and bare, unwelcoming rock. Monstrous all-inclusive resorts like walled cities and tumble-down trailers full of single mothers and their naked, unwashed children. Riotous nightlife and serene waterfalls. Pickpockets and poi, orchids and corruption. Everything. Sean couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.
There are two things notably absent from that first paragraph. Otherwise, how does it sound?

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
SHES A GUY!!!!!!!!!!
ROSEBUD IS THE SLED!!!!!
VADER IS LUKES FATHER!!!!!
EDWARD HERMAN IS THE HEAD VAMPIRE NOT KEIFER SUTHERLAND!!
THEY ALL GET KILLED BY A CANNON AS THEY CHARGE THE LAST ENCAMPMENT INSIDE THE FORT!!!
PAUL SORVINO KILLS BEATTY!!!!
I just revealed the ends to mahy films…which ones?