Complete American Graffiti

by John Minahan

Vintage movie tie-in paperback

Genres: Fiction

Paperback

First published July 28, 1979

Reviews

[jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

The majority of the book is a near verbatim novelization of the as-filmed movie "American Graffiti". The prologue and post-"Graffiti" story-telling is entertaining and faithfully continues with the characters' personalities. But, it suffers from some story discontinuities (i.e., re John Milner's last race) and mysterious spelling inconsistencies with a character's name ("Vikki" vs "Vikkie").

[Jason Vedder · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bare bones novelization, makes you realize its all in the delivery of the actors. Not much detail of the night and in the second half day, just dialogue. Makes me appreciate the films even more. Except for a questionable ending, that has a surprise "really?" ending not much to this