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Snakes on a Novelization
June 24th, 2006 at 9:56 am

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:

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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?



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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?

Comment by Snakes in Europe — June 24, 2006 @ 11:28 am

That first paragraph suffers from a severe lack of snakes.

Comment by Snakes on a Snake — June 24, 2006 @ 12:53 pm

Also planes.

Comment by Planes on a Plane — June 24, 2006 @ 12:57 pm

Wouldn’t it be nice if Snakes on A Plane contained all those plot twists? What can’t this film do?

Comment by MaccyD — June 24, 2006 @ 1:40 pm

the author has a fun website. ooh, bondage!
http://www.christafaust.com/

Comment by jon may — June 24, 2006 @ 1:48 pm

Hmm… I think the book should have opened:

SNAKES ON A PLANE!

Then the first paragraph.

Comment by Snakes are not Lame — June 24, 2006 @ 3:48 pm

OMFG the Amazon reviews are already fucking hilarious

Comment by Snakes in Europe — June 24, 2006 @ 3:58 pm

MOAR MOAR MOAR MOAR MOAR!!!!

Comment by Brian — June 24, 2006 @ 10:55 pm

speaking of Amazon… what the hell is this?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156025971X/sr=8-3/qid=1151210931/ref=pd_bbs_3/103-9234437-3195803?ie=UTF8

Comment by Jim — June 25, 2006 @ 12:50 am

[...] Talking about the novelization of Snakes on a Plane earlier today got me thinking about what an odd experience it must have been to write such a thing.  The author of the novelization, Chrisa Faust, has done a number of other novelizations as well as a good deal of her own work AND has agreed to answer a few questions. [...]

Pingback by Snakes on a Blog » Snakes on a Novelization Author Interview — June 25, 2006 @ 1:37 am

Jim, that’s a book a guy named David Waldon has been working on for a month or two. He’s talked to a lot of people online about it (including me) and is scheduled to release it in early August. It’s basically going to be a lot of the photoshops and comics that people have put together collected into one work.

Comment by Snakes on a Blog — June 25, 2006 @ 10:00 am

Yeah, I saw the book in the local Borders this Thursday. I was going to buy it, but I didn’t want it to give away the ending, so instead I bought A Scanner Darkly. Good book, and I’m allmost done with it, too (40 pages left!) so I think I’ll go ahead and buy SoaP next time I’m around, just for the sake of buying it. I just won’t read anymore than two chapters, until I see the movie.

And, in case any of you guys were wondering, A Scanner Darkly is a 70’s drug novel by Philip K. Dick, about an undercover Narcotics officer, who by day is a regular drugee, but the drug he is addicted to (called Substance D) has split his brain into two competing hemespheres, so he basically becomes two different personalities, and he ends up narcing on himself. It’s really kind of hard to explain, but it is really interesting. And is full of dark humor. They just made a movie adaptation that’s coming out soon (hopefully not on August 18th) that looks really cool. The website is http://www.scannerdarklymovie.com. Watch the trailer, its crazy. Plus, it has Theadore Logan!

Comment by irrelivent — June 25, 2006 @ 10:41 pm

Holy____! I’m just Winging It here, but do Michael, Evo, Summer, Joe, Ninja contingent, beer guy et al know there’s a Snakes on a Blog?

I would rather deal with snakes on a plane than killer bee swarm on a plane *fearless look*

Comment by SaMM — June 25, 2006 @ 11:24 pm

I read the book and ruined for myself. I wish SoaP was like my appetite and come back. Oh wait it is. Page 359

Comment by DR. WOLF — June 26, 2006 @ 12:28 am

Amazon.com has just sent out my copy, despite the fact that they still have the release date down as 11th July…

Comment by Neil — June 26, 2006 @ 8:55 am

Uh, I have a plot question. So the surfer is on this plane from Hawai’i to LA. And some evildoer puts snakes on the plane (yikes!) to get him.
But!! there are no snakes in Hawai’i. Anyone who has been there knows that. US & Hawai’ian customs agents keep them out. So how do the snakes get on the plane in Hawai’i?
Just curious.

Comment by i like snakes — June 26, 2006 @ 12:10 pm

Duh. If u knew anything about anyhting you’d know that te snakes are from foreign countries. So that they can’t get a vaccine quick enough after the plane lands. It’s on the website.

Comment by irrelivent — June 26, 2006 @ 8:53 pm

I just finished reading it earlier, it was awsome as hell. It completly broke my expectations of it.

Comment by PzP — June 27, 2006 @ 10:59 pm

[...] As I mentioned previously, I sent a copy of the novelization of Snakes on a Plane off to crazymonk to review when he wasn’t busy working on the Nevada marijuana initiative. Well, he’s finished the book and wrote up his review (and he even made his own graphics… bonus). [...]

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