Sunday Fun: Abandoned Close Encounters Book

While discussing abandoned books with a friend in July of 2018, I presented a very small list, but a certain title was perhaps a surprise: the Close Encounters of the Third Kind tie-in novelization.

I started digging in in late 1979, and in November of that year I packed it in.

The real part of this story is the fact that for almost thirty-nine years the bookmark was exactly where I left it: Chapter 10.

The book was unremarkable, like most of that kind, and added nothing to what to me was an unremarkable movie ― with the exception a few impressive show pieces.

The bookmark: "Half Back - The Ontario Rebate Program that turns old Wintario tickets into discounts", valid from May 1 - September 30, 1979.

Postscript: Steven Spielberg did not write the novel, no surprise. Though the director long claimed that he was its scribe, in fact it had been ghost-written by Leslie Waller.