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Grease
The Thunderbirds, the Pink Ladies, and Rydell High's class of '59 rumble, rock and roll, and fall in love
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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May 31, 2022
عن موت البراءة و انتصارها في آن واحد
فمع الشحم ستعرف ان القواعد هي :انه لا توجد قواعد
“When a guy picks a chick over his buddies, something’s gotta be wrong. Come on, guys let’s go for some pizza.”– Danny
فمع الشحم ستعرف ان القواعد هي :انه لا توجد قواعد
“When a guy picks a chick over his buddies, something’s gotta be wrong. Come on, guys let’s go for some pizza.”– Danny
March 8, 2010
Highly singable and classic, but I hate the story. It annoys me that she has to become what he is for them to be together.
October 2, 2009
I recommend this book to everyone, i really like that is not dull and its exiting. Its not like most of the other love books, while i was reading the book i saw an image as i was reading.
August 25, 2019
Rating is a low 3 close to a 2 but there’s no half star so yeah.
You all know the movie, the theatre production and the songs and there’s a book too. It’s my moms book and I randomly thought I’d read it too, but it certainly wasn’t what I was expecting.
It didn’t follow the thread that we are used to at all, plus none of the songs are in it but that didn’t stop me singing them to myself when i reached those parts in the book. The story is told by Sonny, it’s his story not Danny & Sandy’s which I thought was odd really. It’s does feature the same points in the movie or show but in a very different way and different perspective for the whole thing. Some characters were hardly featured plus a whole different character who was featured more than Sandy was. It was a very difficult book to get into honestly.
I didn’t overly like some of the language used within the book, the way they spoke about girls, that may be the difference in times we live in now rather than when it was written (1978). There were tons of grammatical errors that I so wanted to fix.
On the plus it was still an okay read, nothing special but I’m still happy I got to read it. It told more of the friendship between the T-birds which was cool and showed them all maturing ready to leave each other and it’s was done in a subtle way so you could see the characters progression from the way they were at the start to the end.
I would have liked more of the Pink Ladies featured though they were such a small part to the story unfortunately but as it was told from a males perspective and he wasn’t a pink lady you get the scenes you are given really.
In closing it wasn’t the best book, it wasn’t the movie/show or how I dreamt the book would be, but for what it was it was pretty okay and an interesting read.
You all know the movie, the theatre production and the songs and there’s a book too. It’s my moms book and I randomly thought I’d read it too, but it certainly wasn’t what I was expecting.
It didn’t follow the thread that we are used to at all, plus none of the songs are in it but that didn’t stop me singing them to myself when i reached those parts in the book. The story is told by Sonny, it’s his story not Danny & Sandy’s which I thought was odd really. It’s does feature the same points in the movie or show but in a very different way and different perspective for the whole thing. Some characters were hardly featured plus a whole different character who was featured more than Sandy was. It was a very difficult book to get into honestly.
I didn’t overly like some of the language used within the book, the way they spoke about girls, that may be the difference in times we live in now rather than when it was written (1978). There were tons of grammatical errors that I so wanted to fix.
On the plus it was still an okay read, nothing special but I’m still happy I got to read it. It told more of the friendship between the T-birds which was cool and showed them all maturing ready to leave each other and it’s was done in a subtle way so you could see the characters progression from the way they were at the start to the end.
I would have liked more of the Pink Ladies featured though they were such a small part to the story unfortunately but as it was told from a males perspective and he wasn’t a pink lady you get the scenes you are given really.
In closing it wasn’t the best book, it wasn’t the movie/show or how I dreamt the book would be, but for what it was it was pretty okay and an interesting read.
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September 3, 2022i wanted a pulpy novelization to be my company on a transatlantic flight, and boy, did i get it! this book baffled me in the best way by inexplicably focusing the entire story on Sonny (the T-Bird who everyone makes fun of because in the movie, he appears to have repeated his senior year at least ten times). he's inserted into scenes he has no business being in and it's hilarious every time, and the characters frequently recite the musical's lyrics as dialogue which is also hilarious every time. it's a delightful and really, really, really goofy romp!
May 13, 2016
The book Grease in my opinion was SOOOOO good.I really loved the movie so I think that I made a good decision in picking a book that I love !This book is about a girl named Sandy and a boy named Danny who fall in love.At first, Sandy didn't think he was the boy for her, just because he seemed like a trouble maker.But, as time went by she started falling for him as he did for her.I would recommend this book to anyone who likes old movies, like grease.And also for people who want to read a book that really entertains them.
December 23, 2022
this is my al time favorite movie and book, easy read, and i would watch or read it again
January 7, 2026
Es el de felipe. Ñeh. Demasiado parecido a la peli
May 23, 2020
A fun, easy read that is welcome for right now!
I appreciate how the author expands some of the characters & relationships and includes
health doses of Nostalgia!
I appreciate how the author expands some of the characters & relationships and includes
health doses of Nostalgia!
May 16, 2016
I usually try to avoid reading a book after it's been turned into a movie and now I guess I can add books based on movies/Broadway musicals to that list. It was a typical "coming of age" story but without the kids actually trying to get there, they just wanted to be in the moment and that's exactly where they stay. It was an interesting turn to the story but for me it was kind of like rewriting history.
July 8, 2014
I had the album, I saw the movie 13 times in the theater, and I read the book. And yes, for Christmas that year we all desperately wanted Candie's and skin-tight disco pants and tube tops. Fortunately, my mother had more taste than I did, and gave me black velvet jeans instead, and we all got tunics instead of tubes. Terrifying what a huge deal that was then, and how trivial it is now.
April 28, 2020
I grew up watching Grease on VHS (something the kids of today will never experience) and watched it constantly. This popped up when I was looking for novelizations and I was confused how they could turn a musical into a book.
It’s told in a very awkward way. Rather than just following the movie/script, it’s told from Sonny’s point of view. Which means he either gets inserted into a lot of scenes which he was never a part of, or he “eavesdrops” or he gets stories told to him, which makes for very cringe reading. I don’t know if they’d originally planned for the film to be told this way, but i have my doubts. And the whole beginning is different as well, and doesn’t really start to follow the film until about page 50ish, when they get back to Rydell. Danny and Sonny (because there’s no show without Punch) goes to Sonny’s aunt’s rooming house to help her out over the summer and that’s where Danny meets Sandy. And Sonny meets Marsha.
Ah Marsha ... wait, WHO? At first I thought Marsha was Marty and they’d changed the name for the film. No, Marty is her own individual character, and doesn’t date Sonny, unlike in the film. Obviously, Marsha gets melded into Marty’s film character at some point, as they have some of the same lines.
The Pink Ladies are mostly the same, although Jan is woefully underused in the novelization, with her even taking on some of Marty’s lines, particularly in the Sandra Dee sequence. The T-Birds are also the same, with Kenickie getting called by his name and also Kenick and Nicky. However, there’s another character called Roger, who I eventually worked out to be Putzie, although the author annoyingly alternates between Roger and Putzie constantly. Cha-Cha is described as being “fat and greasy” and doesn’t appear as much in the dance sequence.
There’s a whole bunch of scenes that were not in the film, so were obviously cut from the final script - if they were ever included in the first place. And as for the songs, instead of being cut out completely, they’re shoehorned into the characters dialogue, which feels very unnatural, and again, will make you cringe. It’s almost like the author has only seen bits and pieces of Grease and as made up the rest of the scenes as he went along.
I don’t mind if novelizations are told differently to the films, because quite often there are deleted scenes still included. But this was just a mad jumble and I wouldn’t recommend it, if you’re a lover of the film. When it sticks to what’s on screen, it’s not too bad, but otherwise, it’s a mess.
It’s told in a very awkward way. Rather than just following the movie/script, it’s told from Sonny’s point of view. Which means he either gets inserted into a lot of scenes which he was never a part of, or he “eavesdrops” or he gets stories told to him, which makes for very cringe reading. I don’t know if they’d originally planned for the film to be told this way, but i have my doubts. And the whole beginning is different as well, and doesn’t really start to follow the film until about page 50ish, when they get back to Rydell. Danny and Sonny (because there’s no show without Punch) goes to Sonny’s aunt’s rooming house to help her out over the summer and that’s where Danny meets Sandy. And Sonny meets Marsha.
Ah Marsha ... wait, WHO? At first I thought Marsha was Marty and they’d changed the name for the film. No, Marty is her own individual character, and doesn’t date Sonny, unlike in the film. Obviously, Marsha gets melded into Marty’s film character at some point, as they have some of the same lines.
The Pink Ladies are mostly the same, although Jan is woefully underused in the novelization, with her even taking on some of Marty’s lines, particularly in the Sandra Dee sequence. The T-Birds are also the same, with Kenickie getting called by his name and also Kenick and Nicky. However, there’s another character called Roger, who I eventually worked out to be Putzie, although the author annoyingly alternates between Roger and Putzie constantly. Cha-Cha is described as being “fat and greasy” and doesn’t appear as much in the dance sequence.
There’s a whole bunch of scenes that were not in the film, so were obviously cut from the final script - if they were ever included in the first place. And as for the songs, instead of being cut out completely, they’re shoehorned into the characters dialogue, which feels very unnatural, and again, will make you cringe. It’s almost like the author has only seen bits and pieces of Grease and as made up the rest of the scenes as he went along.
I don’t mind if novelizations are told differently to the films, because quite often there are deleted scenes still included. But this was just a mad jumble and I wouldn’t recommend it, if you’re a lover of the film. When it sticks to what’s on screen, it’s not too bad, but otherwise, it’s a mess.
November 14, 2020
Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film. The film shows America in the 1950s, where there was still no oil crisis, no Vietnam war. An atmosphere of celebration and wellbeing was present everywhere.
All of the aspects in the movie are perfect: music, dances, costumes, acting. The movie portrayed adolescents. There are all the recognizable signs of this age: fearlessness, lack of self control, emotional and changeable mood. See for example how Travolta deliberately walked showing - I'm cool!). This iconic movie may be rewatched again and again, great mood guaranteed!
This is a link to the article in Wikipedia about the movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_...
All of the aspects in the movie are perfect: music, dances, costumes, acting. The movie portrayed adolescents. There are all the recognizable signs of this age: fearlessness, lack of self control, emotional and changeable mood. See for example how Travolta deliberately walked showing - I'm cool!). This iconic movie may be rewatched again and again, great mood guaranteed!
This is a link to the article in Wikipedia about the movie:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_...
December 15, 2023
my sister picked this up from a thrift store and i decided to give it a read and I honestly enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would! Very funny and witty and i love how sonny and danny are in love 😛😛 also danny is such a dick i hate him sorry. But anyway it was different enough from the movie to keep it interesting but similar enough that it still felt like the sameish story?? Except why tf is sandy not Australian…. Anyway pretty good and silly!
February 27, 2024
HUH??????
Have to respect this man for writing the most obvious, audacious self insert fan fiction and then publishing it as the official novelization. The was unintentionally one of the funniest books I’ve ever read with how he kept working Sonny into every main situation most of which he definitely did not belong in. Iconic
Have to respect this man for writing the most obvious, audacious self insert fan fiction and then publishing it as the official novelization. The was unintentionally one of the funniest books I’ve ever read with how he kept working Sonny into every main situation most of which he definitely did not belong in. Iconic
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June 11, 2021i just have to say i haven't seen the movie, but i do know that louis tomlinson did a play in his school about it where he was playing danny so i wanna read this cuz of that. and grease is his fav movie so um yeah sue me.
September 20, 2025
I watched the movie and really liked the music and the choice each teem had to make. Two kids from different countries fall in love and must decide which is more important to them, their friends or each other.
September 1, 2017
So this book was written after the movie was out and contains some of the music parts as a normal text in a book... why?
I love Grease, but this book was a bit of a stretch :(
I love Grease, but this book was a bit of a stretch :(
October 21, 2020
I Love this movie and I really want to read the book
April 23, 2021
Funny & romantic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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March 15, 2022i give it 100/100
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May 4, 2022
Interesting to have it told from the point of view of Sonny. Also told more of the back story and had a change on characters. Quick read but some parts hard to read through.
April 21, 2023
Pretty funny choice to make this a first person narrative told by Sonny.
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May 25, 2023just putting it on here for posterity
September 26, 2023
The book and the movie are one of my all time favorites. A true classic that I have watched and read many times. In my opinion, I cannot imagine anyone not liking the story.
August 1, 2024
The Grease novel isn't exactly the movie, but is still a fun nostalgia read.
January 20, 2025
Quick read. Gave you all the good feelings that the movie does.
June 5, 2025
Ehey, what the hell was that?
November 20, 2022
قليلة هي الروايات التي فرأتها بعد مشاهدتها على الشاشة ، وهذه الرواية صدرت بعد عرض الفيلم بسنوات ، فما الجدوى ، خاصة أنه كان فيلما استعراضيا لا قصة له أكثر من أنه دعوة للتمرد على كل شئ التعليم والعمل والنظم والقوانين والتراث والماضي والمستقبل والطموحات والأمنيات ووصفها بأنها كلها عبث وأضغاث أحلام وهذا ما أعجبني فيه وجاءت الايام لتصدقه وتؤكده ، شاهدته في بداية العام الدراسي في مثل هذا اليوم وبدلا من أن يكون هناك احتفال صغير في المنزل بعد الدراسة ، قال الأصدقاء سوف نحتفل بهذه المناسبة هنا وفي المساء نشاهد فيلم " جريس " ابديت اعتراض على الفيلم واسمه والبرنامج الذي وضعوه لأننا بذلك سوف نفقد عدد من المحاضرات ونحن مازلنا في بداية العام ، فقال أكبرنا سنا وهو من الذين تلقوا الصدمة مبكرا وأدرك الحياة قبلنا وتعايش معها :
Grease is much important than Geology
ثم اضاف " جريس " هو أفضل تسمية ووصف للعالم الذي نعيش فيه وليس هناك أسوأ ولا ابلغ من هذا الوصف ، أما من حيث المكان فالفيلم نفسه تم تصويره داخل الحرم الجامعي ، كان يوما مشهودا وحدثا غير مألوفا سوف يظل في الذاكرة ابدا ، أن يحتفل مجموعة من الطلبة بعيد ميلاد ثم يشاهدون فيلما أجنبيا في احدى القاعات الدراسية ، أبدت الجماعات الدينية اعتراضها على عرض الفيلم ووصفوه كالمعتاد بأنه دعوة للفجور والرذيلة و... ولم تكن الا مناوشات فحسب فقد كان لنا من الحشد والقوة ما يردع من تسول له نفسه ان يتطاول ، شاهدنا الفيلم واحتفلنا كما لم نفرح من قبل وفي اليوم التالي خرجت مجلات الحائط والنشرات تتحدث عن الفسق والانحلال الذي تسلل الى داخل الجامعة على يد مجموعة من الطلبة الفسقة الذين هم نحن بكل فخر
Grease is much important than Geology
ثم اضاف " جريس " هو أفضل تسمية ووصف للعالم الذي نعيش فيه وليس هناك أسوأ ولا ابلغ من هذا الوصف ، أما من حيث المكان فالفيلم نفسه تم تصويره داخل الحرم الجامعي ، كان يوما مشهودا وحدثا غير مألوفا سوف يظل في الذاكرة ابدا ، أن يحتفل مجموعة من الطلبة بعيد ميلاد ثم يشاهدون فيلما أجنبيا في احدى القاعات الدراسية ، أبدت الجماعات الدينية اعتراضها على عرض الفيلم ووصفوه كالمعتاد بأنه دعوة للفجور والرذيلة و... ولم تكن الا مناوشات فحسب فقد كان لنا من الحشد والقوة ما يردع من تسول له نفسه ان يتطاول ، شاهدنا الفيلم واحتفلنا كما لم نفرح من قبل وفي اليوم التالي خرجت مجلات الحائط والنشرات تتحدث عن الفسق والانحلال الذي تسلل الى داخل الجامعة على يد مجموعة من الطلبة الفسقة الذين هم نحن بكل فخر
May 20, 2015
Reading this book brought to surface so many buried memories I had of the year 1998, when the 20th anniversary of the movie Grease was celebrated. Of course, as I was in High School, it was decided a Brazilian version of the musical should be presented. I obviously audictioned for the role of Sandy (which curiously had many similarities to my own person, back then) but surprisingly they offered me to play Rizzo. God knows what criteria was applied while deciding how to match each character to the limited number of students interested, but I was not fit for Rizzo's hairstyle, so I declined. (seriously, I declined because rehersal was scheduled to everyday from 15:00 to 17:00 and I was supposed to get home, well, 8 minutes and 22 seconds by the end of the last class of each day).
Nevertheless, I took part of some rehersals and sung a part of the Summer Nights glee so I definitively took part in this glorious experience of High School dream. (to be concluded)
Nevertheless, I took part of some rehersals and sung a part of the Summer Nights glee so I definitively took part in this glorious experience of High School dream. (to be concluded)
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