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Author:	Pierre Boulle
Title:	Planet Of The Apes
Publisher:	Signet
Country:	USA
Date:	Nov 1964
Format:	Paperback
Class Number:	843.914
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction
Translator:	Xan Fielding
Cat#:	D2547
Total Editions:	3
Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns, 2 Want
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Mass market paperback.
128 numbered and total pages.

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Magic Marmalade 9th Jul 2023		Rated 9/10 Read this in a day! Seen most, if not all the movies, so was pleased to find this in the charity shop, so I could go straight to the source at last. It doesn't really start out that promising to be honest, as it reads in the early stages like it's going to be one of those aloof, colonial attitude pieces from the previous century or two, where the attitude of the author, expressed through his narrator might not have dated that well - more than a whiff of a kind of Shatnerian Kirk-ery: "Captain's log... stardate _+_+_, Weeeeee've....GOT. To.... GEt, backtotheship!" But as you read, you realise this is on purpose, as this, almost ultimate work of absolute deadpan satire, focused on just these attitudes, morals and values as expressed in those earlier kind of works are completely undermined...but again, *absolutely deadpan. ...It... Apes, them :) Some rather impressive expressions of then, recently discovered physics (albeit, the years after have rendered most. factually inaccurate). But during the course of it's couple hundred pages of short punchy, and concise chapters, it lays out a plethora of fertile material for consideration and interpretation, so that you can see why movie makers keep going back to it... (Remarkable, how much, although reconfigured for more modern purposes, from this original is revived even for the most recent movies - themes, names poits made etc.) ...Animal rights, psychology, sociology, social commentary, satire, allegory, metaphor, power structures, science (scientific attitudes), morality... it's all here, to be interpreted any way you like! You could really read this a hundred times and always get something new to think about from it. And very much like I Am Legend... nice final line! :)* 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



23skidoo 26th Nov 2021		Someone dated this as 1983 (the printing itself is undated). Is there a source for this? The cover price seems to be too low for a 1983 issue but I may be wrong. (this comment is from another edition of this book)

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Other Editions

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Pierre Boulle - Planet Of The Apes - Penguin - Paperback - UK - 014008570X (1985)

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Pierre Boulle - Planet Of The Apes - Signet - Paperback - USA - 0451123182