Books like The Complete Alien Omnibus

I love the Alien films so I was very happy when my boyfriend found this at a car boot last weekend!Obviously, I already knew I liked the stories, and Ellen Ripley is probably my all time favourite movie character, but I was hoping for a bit more info / background on the plot and characters. There really isn't much outside what happens in the films. Extra scenes and conversations are few and far between, and I wasn't impressed with the bits that are added. We do get to find out what Ripley is thinking, and it makes more of how the events are affecting her psychologically. Saying that, some bits are made clearer - eg why the ship crashes in the final film. The writing improved in each book, in the first one it's a bit overblown, and I felt like the author was trying too hard to be intelligent. By the last book, he's calmed down a lot and just gets on with telling a story. In fact, Alien 3 is my least favourite of the movies (let's pretend 4 never happened), but actually it makes the best book. Though I will never approve of the Alien franchise's habit of killing major characters off between films.Is this for you? Well, if you love the movies and are happy just reading them in book form then go for it, but if you're after more insights into the Alien world, then this will just disappoint you.