Review: A fun and action-packed novel, with giant man-eating snakes!  Nothing not to love!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2014
I am a huge fan of the fun and campy movie Anaconda.  I was searching Amazon for the film score and was delighted when the Writer's Cut novelization popped up.  Written by the same person who wrote the original screenplay, the book gives us his original vision before the inevitable changes were made.  It's fun, fast-paced and fascinating, and we get a lot more character background and historical/geographical context.  If that sounds boring, it's not.  The author knows how to move the story along quickly, and there aren't any WTF moments (okay, seriously, in the movie one of the characters is picked off by a gravity defying snake that leaps from the river to the top of a waterfall).  I also very much enjoyed comparing and contrasting the characters and action in the book to those/that in the movie, especially the way the villain was handled in both forms of media.  That being said, you don't have to have seen the movie to enjoy the book.  Highly recommended.