Una noche, Sarah, una adolescente de carácter fantasioso, se ve obligada a quedarse en casa cuidando a Toby, su hermano pequeño. Cuando sus padres se marchan a una fiesta, harta de oír llorar al niño, Sarah recita unos versos de su libro favorito, Dentro del laberinto, y ordena a los goblins que se lleven a su hermano. Al momento, unas extrañas criaturas aparecen y se esfuman con Toby. Poco después, un hombre misterioso y atractivo surge de la nada y se presenta como Jareth, el rey de los goblins, para a continuación sugerirle a Sarah que se olvide del niño. Arrepentida de lo que ha hecho, Sarah le pide que le devuelva a Toby, pero el rey se niega. Entonces él le propone un trato:
«Tienes trece horas para atravesar el laberinto y encontrar a tu hermano. De lo contrario, se convertirá en uno de nosotros».
Y el tiempo apremia...

I love this. And I don't know if it's because I love the movie so damn much and honestly, I don't care. ( )

It's exactly the movie in book form!!! Good luck getting your hands on this one though. It's out of print, and really expensive to order online. My copy cost 50$, and personally I think it was worth every penny. ( )

Probably one of my favorite movies...actually a good movie-to-book version ( )

“Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.”

I usually don’t read novelizations of movies, but it’s The Labyrinth! With Jareth! I’m not going to go into detail about the story, plot, and characters as those are basically the same as the movie. What I am going to point out are the major differences that sets the book apart from the movie.

First we have the back story on Sarah’s mother. In the movie we see newspaper clippings and photos in Sarah’s room of “Linda Williams” and the mysterious Jeremy (also played by David Bowie). If you get a chance to look closer at the newspapers it’s apparent that they were in a relationship on and offstage, so Sarah’s mother is an actress- which is where Sarah gets her love of theatre. The book goes into detail and explains the relationship in more detail, such as Sarah and Jeremy get along very well and Jeremy treats Sarah as an adult- taking her to highclass restaurants with her mother. But it also implies that Sarah’s mother left her family for Jeremy, so we can kind of see why Sarah is a bit bratty under the circumstances of being spoiled/hurt.

I really do wish they would have found some way to incorporate the songs into the book. No, I don’t want to be reading the lyrics off of the page or have the characters break out into song, but the music of The Labyrinth is so much a part of the movie that reading its novelization without having even pieces of the music lingering made some scenes fall really flat.

What fans will really want this book for is the early concept art by Brian Froud and Jim Henson’s personal journal pages! I always love watching the extras on DVDs and thumbing through movie-art books. Seeing the early stages of Henson’s ideas on the Labyrinth and Froud’s critters that didn’t make the movie makes the book worth purchasing on its own.

Overall, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: The Novelization is a great addition to any fans’ collection.

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