[Dr Kain]

While I know this is for movies, I wanted to post my thoughts on the Invasion of Body Snatchers novel as we finished the book today. In all honesty, it was crap. It's quite childish in the way he's written the main character's (Miles) lonely lust for his love interest while claiming he doesn't want to get involved with her. It is interesting how the book has bits that were in the 70s adaptation but not the 50s and vice versa. Anyway, there were entire chapters that were just utterly pointless. Like after Miles and the gang discover the pods in Miles' house, they flee Santa Mira and go to a hotel. An entire chapter is spent on them at the hotel when they decide they're going to go save the town because they don't want to abandon the place they grew up in, making the entire hotel bit pointless. No wonder no movie adaptation has bothered to include such tripe. Then there is a full chapter on Miles and Becky in Miles' office looking for something to fight off the pod people with. A paragaph is spent telling us the things he fumbles through in his desk before realizing he could use the scaples and crap in his cabinet to the side of him. And then the ending was kind of a crock of shit.

Spoiler warning if you want to read the book. Miles and Becky set a garden of pods on fire and when the pod people douse the flames, the pods take off into space. The pod people then die off and everyone lives happily ever after. What the blanking blank was that????