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Star Wars, Episode III: De Wraak van de Sith: Het Boek van de Film
Gert van Santen, Matthew Woodring Stover
4.34 AVERAGE
912 reviews for:
Star Wars, Episode III: De Wraak van de Sith: Het Boek van de Film
Gert van Santen, Matthew Woodring Stover
4.34 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
i’m emo im emo im emo im emo i literally knew what was going to happen but stover made it worse
I really enjoyed the novelizations for Episodes 1 and 2, but Revenge of the Sith has always been my favorite movie. As a lifelong Star Wars fan, I've lived and breathed the movies for so long. The first two were great, but Matthew Stover goes above and beyond fantastic with this one! The first two civilizations added a few deleted scenes that I feel really added to the movies, but the old scenes you loved were still there. With this one, the dialogue is almost always brand new, keeping only the barest amounts of scenes you recognize from the movie. It made me miss the movie's dialogue a lot at times - especially since Revenge of the Sith is my favorite - but no one can deny Matthew Stover is a writing genius. The way he puts words together, his descriptions, vocabulary, and writing style is absolutely fantastic. He's one of my new favorite authors now and this is one of my new favorite books. My only complaint was that I wish it had more dialogue like the movie in it, but if you look at it by itself - it's fantastic! Always like the difference between a book that was turned into a movie and you can't help but enjoy both, even though they're different. In this case, the situation was reversed. This is a must-read for any Star Wars fan, especially ones that love the prequels and who adore Anakin Skywalker like I do!
adventurous
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s one thing to watch the movie and have to work around George Lucas’ inability to write dialogue, another to watch a skilled novelist take a stab it and watch it as a trainwreck where everyone knows something is deeply wrong but cannot get this information to the other characters as the main antagonist drives the whole train off a cliff.
When people tell you this is one of the best movie novelizations of all time, hell even one of the best Star Wars books of all time, they aren’t kidding, it’s astonishing how much weight this greek tragedy of a movie is given when Stover writes about them.
There’s nothing that can be done to change it.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I will return to my blanket cocoon where I will be sobbing about Anakin Skywalker for the foreseeable future. (Not like I haven’t been doing that for the past 20 years)
When people tell you this is one of the best movie novelizations of all time, hell even one of the best Star Wars books of all time, they aren’t kidding, it’s astonishing how much weight this greek tragedy of a movie is given when Stover writes about them.
There’s nothing that can be done to change it.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I will return to my blanket cocoon where I will be sobbing about Anakin Skywalker for the foreseeable future. (Not like I haven’t been doing that for the past 20 years)
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely excellent Star Wars. This is the peak of movie tie-in content, along with its predecessor and sequel by the legendary James Luceno. The amount of expansion of the story is really interesting and engaging. There are many tie-ins and references to other expanded universe material, such as Assaj Ventriss, Darth Bane, Labyrinth of Evil, the WEG sourcebooks, the Thrawn Trilogy and X-Wing Novels, Shatterpoint (which has a really cool tie-in in the Palpatine vs Windu fight near the end) and a cool Empire Strikes Back reference (with Captain Needa in charge of a Dreadnought Heavy Cruiser defending Coruscant). Brilliant book for anyone who is a fan of Star Wars, especially the expanded universe and the prequels.