Books from TV shows

[secretlyevil]

Is this a new thing?

www.scribd.com/doc/130430526/Reawakened-A-Once-Upon-A-Time-Tale

Love this show, have watched is religiously. I find it very odd that they're turning it into a book.

[rootbeerfloat]

For Once Upon a Time, it seems particularly weird since the shows are based on fairy tales that already exist.

[charlatti]

Definitely not a new thing. I remember buying a book once as a young teenager because I thought some movie I had liked was based on the book, and it turned out to be a crappy spinoff book. (ETA: I don't remember the movie, but I'm old, so this was a long time ago.) I've seen them before for TV shows too. I've never read one since that one experience, but I'm willing to bet the writing is consistently bad.

[dorothyinAus]

I don't think it's a new thing. Once at a charity book sale I saw a whole bunch of Brady Bunch books, and I know there was a series of Murder, She Wrote mystery books.

[apelila]

Mar 29, 2013 15:14:13 GMT -5 charlatti said:

Definitely not a new thing. I remember buying a book once as a young teenager because I thought some movie I had liked was based on the book, and it turned out to be a crappy spinoff book. (ETA: I don't remember the movie, but I'm old, so this was a long time ago.) I've seen them before for TV shows too. I've never read one since that one experience, but I'm willing to bet the writing is consistently bad.

This happened to me with Panic Room. I actually returned that book for a refund!