There was one other pretty memorable event in the book. Zorg meets up with Korben! In the movie they never actually saw each other. In the book, they meet up in the Diva's stateroom. Korben and friends are trying to figure out how to shut the bomb off, and Zorg walks in (with 13 seconds on the clock) and resets it, saying "overtime!" Korben pulls the "yellow light" trick on Zorg, but it doesn't work -- exactly. Zorg reports to Korben that the yellow light doesn't mean that the safety is on, it means the clip is (whoops) empty. Korben takes a few solid swings at Zorg, the outcome is predictable...poor Zorg.
I guess I should review the book. Well, I'd like to say it was supernifty like the movie, blew me out of my seat (hard to do with a book, at least straight off), and I would read it again and again. Well...no. The book unfortunately is not as good as the movie by a long shot. A *long shot*. The writing style of the author is kinda...well, childish sounding at some points. It seems written for lil' kids. Well maybe not that bad, but it sure doesn't stimulate the brain to act much. It's more a TV set than a book -- no thinking required. If you have not seen the movie and want to read the book to get an idea of how good the movie is, please stop. Don't. You'll feel bad later for having missed a great film. Look, see I read the book in three hours. Three hours. That's all it took, and the book is 250 pages. If you're in for easy reading I guess this is the book for you, but jeez you could read the thing on the way to school it's so quick.
To sum it up, the book does follow the movie closely which would make it marginally worth it for die-hard Fifth Element fans to read. Perhaps even people in locations where the movie has not come out yet would be able to use it, as long as they kept in mind that the book loses terribly to the movie. Me, well I use it as a data bank of sorts. Can't clearly remember a particular scene (doubtful, I've seen it three times) then I look it up. It is useful for small details, like if you're making a site or something. It also does *barely* touch on some of the technical issues that were not explained in the film and some unclear areas are touched upon and cleared up somewhat (I found the Diva scenes quite useful). If you're a collector go ahead and get it.
Buy the book if you have a lot of spare cash and nothing better to do. OR if you love the movie
so much it worries you. OR if you're making a site. Do NOT buy the book to review the movie, and
do not pass judgement on the movie by the book. For once, I have to say screw the book, see the
movie!