Read 'em and weep

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pennyplainknits shared an amazingly funny link with me: Read 'em and weep: Prequels, sequels, junior sequels, semi-official junior prequels to penultimate graphic sequels... Joe Queenan unravels the baffling, tangled world of the movie novelisation. There are parts that made LOL!

"In the world of novelisation there is also a subgenre called Unofficial Prequels, and very possibly Prequels to Sequels, Sequels to Prequels, Junior Prequels to Sequels, and Semi-Official Penultimate Junior Prequels to Ultimate Graphic Sequels."

Or...

"A very different case is 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: A Junior Novelisation' by Michael Anthony Steele. Unlike 'Night at the Museum: A Junior Novelisation', Leslie Goldman's rewrite of Milan Trenc's 'The Night at the Museum', (the storybook on which the film Night at the Museum is based), 'Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: A Junior Novelisation' is the junior novelisation of the sequel to the original 'Night at the Museum'. It is thus a sort of a sequel to a film, and a sequel to the novelisation of a film, which was in itself the junior novelisation of the screenplay to a film which was based upon a book which was mostly pictures. Is that clear?"

*rotflmao* And yes, I'm a big fan of novelisations in general and of tie-ins in particular!