X-Files: Goblins by Charles Grant
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- Published originally in December 1994 (paperback)
- Finished reading it on October 8, 1998
- This is the second X-Files book that I read (X-Files: Whirlwind being the first) and it is much better than the first one. The title in this one does not give away the ending or the surprise. It surpasses what you would normally see in an average episode. Not necessarily because of too much violence or gore, but because it includes more story and more events with greater complexity than you would find in a normal episode. Scully and Mulder get teamed up with another pair of FBI agents and are indirectly via a Senator called in to investigate a murder. It's a typical small town with eccentric citizens doing weird things. Mix in a reporter friend of the deceased trying to find the killer himself and it becomes an interesting and involving story which stays a mystery up until the very end. This book is definitely one that should be read by X-Files fans.
X-Files: Whirlwind by Charles Grant
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- Published originally in June 1995 (paperback)
- Finished reading it on September 25, 1998
- The story in general is very much like the usual TV episode: entertaining and interesting. However it is lacking. It lacks for all the effects and the visual aspects that come across on the show. Things like Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, their tones of amazement and sarcasm, the musical score that often goes unnoticed, together all the things that make up the actual show. It would make for a good script for an actual show which is probably exactly what was being tried for, but I would have liked to have a little more there. To have learned or seen something that would not normally be on the show, to surpass the TV medium by including a little more in the book. The story itself is interesting but then half the mystery is given away to the readers both with the title of the book and by one of the characters. Annoyingly neither Mulder or Sculley catch on to the clue and even at the end the final comparison is never made.
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