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k_winchester's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.25
I mean, I can't help but love it, because it's the OG Star Wars (my faaav ❤).
Reading the original 1976 novel of it is so interesting - obviously the screenplay and script came straight from this (or they were all written around the same time), so it's interesting to see what lines stuck, verbatim, and which ones were changed. It was so easy to hear the exact tone and everything in my head because I've seen the movie soooo many times - to the point where I wanted to "correct" the battle of Yavin stuff in my head the last 20 pages, as this original novel has Luke as Blue Five when in the movie, he's Red Five. 😅🤓
The style is, again obviously because 1976, pretty old style writing. At times George ( + co) is soooo dry, technical, and/or wordy, that some chunks are strange or confusing or just feel totally unnecessary (see: basically the entire first page of the first chapter). At other times, the descriptions are sooo perfectly put, I found myself wanting to jot the lines down (two lines I did in fact jot down, about Tarkin and Taggart as great examples:
"A certain sliminess clung to him, a sensation inferred rather than tactile"
"A thin, hatchet-faced man with the hair and form borrowed from an old broom and the expression of a piranha"
👌)
And it is expressly stated in the very end that Leia gives Chewie a medal, so I don't know why that never made it in screen, in any version, including the millionth re-edit whatever! 😂 And Han shoots first. End of story.
Anyways, this really only gets one less star out of 5 because of those extra clunky, extra dry chunks scattered throughout that took away from everything else, and because everybody is, realistically, pretty 1D at best on paper here. But I can't help loving it all the same because STAR WARS. ❤🌌
Reading the original 1976 novel of it is so interesting - obviously the screenplay and script came straight from this (or they were all written around the same time), so it's interesting to see what lines stuck, verbatim, and which ones were changed. It was so easy to hear the exact tone and everything in my head because I've seen the movie soooo many times - to the point where I wanted to "correct" the battle of Yavin stuff in my head the last 20 pages, as this original novel has Luke as Blue Five when in the movie, he's Red Five. 😅🤓
The style is, again obviously because 1976, pretty old style writing. At times George ( + co) is soooo dry, technical, and/or wordy, that some chunks are strange or confusing or just feel totally unnecessary (see: basically the entire first page of the first chapter). At other times, the descriptions are sooo perfectly put, I found myself wanting to jot the lines down (two lines I did in fact jot down, about Tarkin and Taggart as great examples:
"A certain sliminess clung to him, a sensation inferred rather than tactile"
"A thin, hatchet-faced man with the hair and form borrowed from an old broom and the expression of a piranha"
👌)
And it is expressly stated in the very end that Leia gives Chewie a medal, so I don't know why that never made it in screen, in any version, including the millionth re-edit whatever! 😂 And Han shoots first. End of story.
Anyways, this really only gets one less star out of 5 because of those extra clunky, extra dry chunks scattered throughout that took away from everything else, and because everybody is, realistically, pretty 1D at best on paper here. But I can't help loving it all the same because STAR WARS. ❤🌌
Content Warnings
Moderate: War
Minor: Gore, Death, Death of parent, and Gun violence
ehmannky's review against another edition
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Oh, this is very fun. I wouldn't rank it as one of the best of the novelizations, but it is fun to read the story before a lot of the changes were put in. Also, there's nothing that can change my mind that Luke and Biggs were boyfriends after reading this. Good fun all around.
Content Warnings
Minor: Torture, Genocide, Death, Death of parent, and Kidnapping
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