Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.43
EAN num: 9780679888222
ISBN number: 0679888225
Label: Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer: Random House Books for Young Readers
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 144
Printing Date: March 24, 1998
Publishing house: Random House Books for Young Readers
Age index: Young Adult
Release Date: March 24, 1998
Sale Popularity Level: 500344
Studio: Random House Books for Young Readers
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Beginning with his birth in the heart of a nuclear explosion in the 1954 film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, The Official Godzilla Compendium has everything you ever wanted to know about the King of the Monsters. Published in cooperation with Toho, the Japanese studio that produced Godzilla's very first 22 films, it takes an intimate peek behind the cameras and a nostalgic look at all of his movies. It even compares all of Godzilla's giant monster friends and foes by height, weight, wins and losses! Packed with photos and illustrations, movie summaries, and entertaining essays that cover all aspects of the last 40 years of Godzilla, this is the only official compendium published in America.
Written by J. D. Lees, editor and publisher of G-Fan magazine, and Marc Cerasini, a New York Times best-selling author of nonfiction.
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This book is fantastic! It has great pictures, important information, and it chronicles the film series from 1954 to 1995. It is a great book for fans of Godzilla. Godzilla and King Kong share the title King of the Monsters, so actuallt there is two kings worthy of the throne.
Anyway, the book is fantastic. The pictures are great and the monster catagory at the end is perfect for those who want to learn the powers of all the beast (not to mention their mass and height too!).
Buy this book. It's a very good read and it is worth the money for such a collection of Godzilla knowledge. So buy the book and enjoy! :)
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Brought this book. What can I say love Godzilla. Loads of pictures, and movie history. If your a big Godzilla fan, and been to g-fest then don't be without this book.
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This book is supposed to be a complete guide to the Toho Godzilla universe, but it hardly goes into enough depth to satisfy more serious fans. The writing style implicates that it was obviously written for younger fans. I myself got it as a present at a very young age (I think I was seven) and this book was my bible. The movie guides are somewhat indepth, each having a synopsis and some afterthoughts by the author. The afterthoughts cover the special effects and actors as well as short, always positive reviews. There are some other various features in the book, adn then in the back there is probably the greatest reason for one to buy this book: a complete guide to the monsters in each movie, with specific facts about their size and appearances with interesting illustrations. Pretty good eye candy, but the rest of the book is a little bland. Kids will love it.
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For some reason I can't understand, I've always enjoyed Godzilla movies because there was just something about a giant lizard fighting other large monsters as well as thwarting man in his effort to destroy what they can not control. I got this book because what amazed me was that it gave information on all of the Godzilla movies (at the time) which also included those that had never been released in the USA. It also detailed how the Godzilla suit has evolved through the years as well as a few articles of how you can use Godzilla as a parenting model, much to shaking head of my wife-to-be at the thought of having our future children behaving....improving their behavior on how to act like monsters.
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First off, this book is appreciating at a better clip than the stock market: I picked up my copy four years ago for what I thought was the catastrophic sum of $35.00. How many of your investments have more than doubled in value over the last four years?
But that is the WORST reason to buy this book! Buy it because it is possibly the very best source book on Godzilla. Buy it because it's well put together, well-made, well-written and lavishly illustrated. Buy it because, well, because it's about Godzilla.
Sure, if you're reading this you probably ought, by general opinion, to have outgrown any childish fascination or affection for a guy in a rubber suit stomping a cardboard Tokyo. You probably shouldn't speed on the highway, ride fast motorcycles or make rude gestures at the television news people either and stop eating raviolis out of the can, would 'ya???
It's not the inner child or any of that psycho-nonsense that motivates you to a) keep reading this even if you know it's nuts and b) keep faith with the Maximum Lizard, his films, books and exploits. It's the 'enduring' child: the continuing ability to be delighted, to wonder and, quite frankly, enjoy watching major urban areas get trashed by something wilder than your average daydream but not nearly as scary as reality.
Unless your investments have been paying off nicely or you've been selling oil to the government, you might want to put this on your wish list and make nice with firends and relatives. Godzilla approves of social harmony in a sort of offhand, one-more-thing-to-stomp way.
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