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August 9, 2022
I read “Help!” right after “Hard Days Night” and almost gave up on it after about 20 pages… the various attempts at Ringo becoming tedious. But then decided to restart and glad I did. Silly and dry British humor and the Lads, of course... plenty of LOL dialogue and gags. Glad I don’t have to wait for the movie versions to premiere ;)
March 19, 2020
A more intricate plot than "A Hard Day's Night", "Help!" works better as a book than it did as a film (IMHO)
January 1, 2026
A very fun book, based on the classic movie
June 24, 2021
The writing style is really excellent.
July 4, 2012
If this were just a novelization of the film, I would have rated it three stars. However, it gets bonus points for anticipating Monty Python's surrealist moments, and for including the description of a scene filmed but cut from the final movie, with the boys taking acting lessons from a famous British dramatic coach (played by Frankie Howerd, who starred in Dick Lester's A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM and later in that awful SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, with George Burns and Steve Martin slumming along with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees. Ugh.)
Anyway, I bought it for a quarter at a book sale, and it's worth $25 or so. But I'll never sell it.
Anyway, I bought it for a quarter at a book sale, and it's worth $25 or so. But I'll never sell it.
April 26, 2016
I'm a huge Beatles fan and Help! is one of my all-time favorite movies, so I was very excited when I was able to get my hands on a copy of the novelization! I'll just say now, it does not disappoint. Al Hine definitely captured the humor of the movie and the personalities of the fab four! There are a few scenes in the book that were deleted from the movie (partly why I wanted to read the book). The one conceivable issue I can think of (other than the fact that it's out of print) is that it's just as confusing/random as the movie, but that only adds to the humor (at least in my opinion!) It's a very quick read and very much worth it!
June 6, 2016
So, I'd seen the movie about Feb of last year. I fell in love with it instantly. It's hilarious. It's the Beatles. But it wasn't until a few months later that I found out that there was a novelization of the movie, but that there was a whole extra chase scene in the book that was cut out of the movie. So eventually I tracked down a copy of the book (for a fair price auctually) and read it. It was fantastic! It was like the movie and yet so very different from it. There were parts that were exactaly the same and then things that were different. I plan to read this again, no questions asked.
March 12, 2012
Not quite as good as Hard Day's Night, but a powerful reminder of my youth.
March 28, 2013
Oh hush. It was my graduation present and it made me laugh my ass off. ;D
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