  Books & Movies: Buffy Nostalgia  For as long as I can remember
I have enjoyed both books and movies almost equally sometimes.
The first time I remember grabbing a book because I liked a
movie was in the 90s when the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie
came out (way before the cool series with Sara Michelle Gellar).
It's full of 90s slang, fashion, and funny performances by
actors who were no one then but have gotten much more time in
the limelight since. We're talking Hilary Swank, Luke Perry,
David Arquette, Kristy Swanson, and Paul Reubens (of PeeWee
Herman fame/infamy). Not to mention Donald Sutherland (Kiefer's
dad), Rutger Hauer, and Natasha Gregson Wagner (you know,
Natalie Wood's daughter).   So Richie Tankerseley Cusick
novelized the movie and it was actually very good novelization
as they go. Usually when the process of book into movie is
reversed to movie into book, they book is super corny but this
one was pretty faithful. It's seriously funny, even if you
weren't very aware of the 90s (or even there)