Book Review – The Omen

The Omen by David Seltzer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As novelizations of movies go, this one isn’t bad. David Seltzer follows the plot of his script fairly closely, occasionally taking advantage of the omniscient narrator’s ability to supplement the story with the characters’ thoughts or an extra twist. In a couple of spots the flow gets sidetracked by unnecessarily elaborate interpretations of scripture, which I suppose is a natural byproduct of doing a lot of background reading (some prosaic, some far more imaginative). In particular, if you felt the movie didn’t supply enough backstory for the supporting characters (good and evil), you get a dose of that here. Otherwise if you’ve seen the movie, you already know what you’re getting from the book.

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