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Inspired by @The_Book_Ninja 's post, I decided to pick Planet of the Apes to while away my ironing chores. I have box sets of the classic movies & the '70s TV show, but decided to go with the OG (Original Gorilla? ?), so gun-totin' Charlie H it is!
The "shock" ending of the film is given away only by its own promotional material, & was already a scifi cliché from the cover of 100 different issues of pulp SF mags from the 40s/50s. Still a classic!

I really enjoyed this. Yes, it‘s a bit dry and pompous sometimes (I wondered if it was actually an Asimov pastiche that wasn‘t quite in the right key) and Rod Stirling‘s film adaptation made artistic choices that are more authentically sci-fi, but, within the franchise that it‘s still spawning, it earns its prototypical credentials as an enthralling adventure that‘s a thoughtful, moving critique of vivisection with a fine example of a twist ending

Weird. The book that inspired the films doesn‘t even remotely resemble any of the film incarnations. There‘s no resemblance at all even to the original with Charleston Heston from the 1960‘s. Hollywood took the idea and came up with a different concept. There‘s no pretense of nuclear Armageddon. It is worth a read just for the surprise at how different the original is. More science fiction than post-apocalyptic.

Today's reading

I always had a soft spot for this franchise. The series was wonderfully terrible, the films uneven in quality, and the books fair to middling, but I can still remember the excitement I felt when I woke to see this annual at the bottom of my bed on Christmas morning 1975. Alternate histories - past, present, and future - fascinate me still. I guess what we watch and read as children leaves a massive legacy.

Git yur hands off me you dam dirty ape!

Time keeps slip sliding away

Adorei! Loved it! Clássico da ficção científica. SciFi classic.
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This was read in a couple of hours. I've never seen the movies, and I was really curious about them. So, I read the book. It was good but really disturbing. I liked how the author used the apes as a mimic of ourselves. Don't be lazy people!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I have long been a fan of both the original, and later, the new Planet of the Apes movies but had never read the book that started it all. OMG!! It was ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!! I really do not understand why they changed the original movie in the ways that they did. The story as told in the original book is so much stronger, so much more startling , and really makes you think even more!!

Baby boy is home from college and we've decided to binge watch all the Planet of the Apes movies starting with the original 1968 version. We've never seen any of them. Thought I'd check the Litsy database to see if there was a book and not really surprised to find it was a book before it was a movie.

Two things:
1. I've never read this book and I probably should.
2. War for the Planet of the Apes was a satisfying end to the latest trilogy and Andy Serkis deserves all the awards for breathing life into Caesar.

DAY 10. BOOKS IN THE WILD
#riotgrams #booksinthewild

This one is #surprising in a number of ways.

Surprise! It's by the French author of Bridge Over the River Kwai.

Surprise! There are two twist endings and neither one is anything like the original movie.

Surprise! You and I live a world where this book inspired nine (NINE!!!) major motion pictures, two different television shows, and so many novels and comics.

Surprise! Some of them are really really good. #aprilamazingreads @jess.how

#octphotochallenge #betterinthemovie

I think Charlton Heston was a better astronaut in the movie than the character in the book.

Text only cover. #booktober @RealLifeReading

Really enjoyed these first few sentences before falling immediately asleep on top of this book last night. Ok wait. No. I don't remember any of this. Back to word one!
(I am not throwing shade on this book. This is an ad for sleeping pills)

For the #bookriot #readharder challenge, I chose this post-apocalyptic classic. I've been a big fan of all the films, but never got around to the book. How did it compare? Oh my! I was riveted from beginning to end. Some similarities, some major differences and some very cool twists and turns. If you've "gone ape" over this franchise, you're gonna love this book! And yes, I'll be spending the weekend binge-watching these monkeys. ???