E.T.
The book E.T. marked a milestone for me as it was my One-Hundredth book, and like a lot of my books at the time I had purchased it from the book section of the local Hyper-Market. At the time my mother had recently started working there and in the evenings either myself, or one of my brothers would go to pick her up when she finished her shift. When I did it, I would go early so that I could go into the store and look around the book section.
I enjoyed the book, which like the vast majority of all books is always much more interesting, at least I think so, than the films or series created from them, this is, of course, because in a book you can read what each of the characters is thinking or feeling, something which is not easy to portray on a screen. The movie when it came out the following year was enjoyable to watch, but the book is better.
The second book in the series deals with events that unfold when E.T. gets back to his home planet and the effects that his time on Earth with Elliot have had on him. I found this to be a fascinating read.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
What do you do when you're lost, millions of miles from home, surrounded by frightening creatures?
You do what the Old Botanist did when he was accidentally left behind on Earth. First you find a friend...
Filmaker STEVEN SPIELBERG and novelist WILLIAM KOTZWINKLE together create a magical story about two unforgettable friends: a gentle being from another world who is stranded on Earth, hunted, afraid and alone....and a ten-year-old boy who finds him and takes him home.
Format
PaperbackDate Acquired
19th October 1982Retail Cost
£1.50Number of Pages
246Year Read
1982E. T.: The Book of the Green Planet
Now, at last, we see where E.T. comes from -- who he really is and what his own distant world is like.
Return with him to the Green Planet, whose inhabitants are the supreme masters of all growing things in the galaxy. Wander through their immense enchanted gardens, to which E.T. has returned, with Gertie's geranium, a fondness for junk food, and an all-consuming love for the earthling Elliott and his family. But things on Earth have changed since E.T. left. Elliott has begun to notice the opposite sex, and his cherished memories of E.T. are losing ground to thoughts of a girl in his class who wears a rhinestone ponytail clip. More important, he seems to have forgotten E.T.'s teachings of gentleness and peace.
He is about to become the most terrible thing of all," observes E.T. from three million light years away. "He is about to become -- Man.
Format
PaperbackDate Acquired
17th June 1985Retail Cost
£1.75Number of Pages
224Year Read
1985