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The
Monster Book -Christopher Golden, Stephen R.
Bissette and Thomas E. Sniegoski
-370 Pages
-August 2000
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Summary: This massive book covers various demons
that have appeared on Buffy and gives a detailed background on them. It
also provides some insight from the writers of these episodes (who also
created the demons) and provide some specific information for them. Also
included are highly indepth research done on every category of
demon that derive information from a wide variety of sources such as
movies, novels, comics, mythology and folklore tales. |
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Rating: 2/5 |
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Review: I'm not really sure how to judge this book
because I personally didn't like it all that much. But that's because I
don't find the demons of Buffy overly interesting. Especially since we
pretty much know everything about the demons already right? Well... I
guess for some people this might prove to be one hell of a collector's
item, but I've got some big beefs with it. First off, one piece of
factual information that was blatantly wrong drove me nuts: The authors
seemed to think that any vampire that served under the Master was part
of the Order of Aurelius. Wrong. Big time wrong. They weren't. There was
a vampire sect called the Order of Aurelius (they had those rings with
the sun and three stars) that was in fact governed by the Master, but it
was only a certain group of vampires. Not every single vampire that was
under the Master's rule.. And
they even went so far as to say that Angelus and Darla were part of that
Order. ARGHHH. They were NOT! In Angel, we learned that Darla and
Angel walked away from the Master when he formed that sect. Alright... that aside... next problem. The
book goes into very lengthy and somewhat boring sections that don't have
anything to do with Buffy. It just explains where the mythology of...
say invisible people... came from. And dude, it gets BORING. There were
some things that I enjoyed learning about, but for the most part it was
just annoying. I bought a Buffy book, I want to read ABOUT Buffy. Not
about some Marvel's #57 Comic Book which featured this character which
possibly influenced a writer into creating a character. That
drove me nuts. Sure, the research done for this must have been
incredible, but it was almost too much information. Most of it trivial
as well. In all, I wish they'd covered more things that were Buffy
oriented instead of focusing on influencing aspects. |
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