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Title: Attack of the Clones (Star Wars) ISBN: 0-345-42882-X Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fuller richer and a little different.
Comment: Elsewhere it is mentioned that GLs politics are displayed here. I am not sure that is true. In this book Capitalism is attacked and union are not as bad. I am not sure we can assume that GL is just another liberal wacko. When was the last time he made a movie in the USA or in Hollywood? He doesn't. And the reason is the union rules and the cost. I think it is likely that the lioberal politics on display here are owned by Salvatore or the editors.
All that aside, this is a real interesting book to read. We learn more about characters that we meet later and we get a deeper look at young Anakin Skywalker than the movie. The have the paperback and the unabridged audio CD. The CD contains the music and special effects that we have come to expect and enjoy from a SW audio book. I only wish they would offer all SW books in unabridged format especially for the ones that are my favorites.
Rating: 5
Summary: More Depth
Comment: Ok, I thought this book was excellant. In the movie (which I Loved also) you see Anakins love for Padma but you don't realy see how she feels untill the end of the movie b/c in movies you can't see what there thinking, in the book you see Padma feeling alot sooner and it makes more sense when she declares her love for him..Also Obi-Won doesn't seem quite as harsh. You sort of see his reasons for being so tough on Anakin. The book gives depth to the characters. It's very very good. If you liked the movie pick up the book you'll like the movie even more.
Rating: 2
Summary: The movie in text form
Comment: I once read a review that said "The Phantom Menace" novelization was merely another cash-in for the movie, and in a way that was true. Movie novelizations don't try to tell new, exciting storylines or anything original - they exist so you can shell out more cash to read in text form what you paid money to see in theaters and on DVD. Occasionally, the better novels include deleted scenes, alternate versions, and internal character thought for added depth. R.A. Salvatore's book version of Attack of the Clones tries to do all this, yet it is still not very successful.
I'm not sure what went wrong. Salvatore is a strong author - I enjoyed his other Star Wars novel, Vector Prime, immensely. Here though, he is reduced to simply writing out each line of dialogue and providing bare-bones narration for the action in between. Words are said and things are done, but none of it really resonates. Character thoughts are brief flashes that don't let you get that much deeper into their mind, and the battle scenes are written in such a way that they accurately describe what's going on without demanding or even asking for your emotional involvement. Imagine plopping Attack of the Clones into your DVD player/VCR, sitting down on the couch with a laptop, and frantically typing out the story as it appears onscreen. Afterwards you go back and drop some extra lines in here and there. The end result would be this novel.
The only thing that slightly redeems this novel are the opening chapters that expand on the Shmi/Cliegg/Owen family unit. I'm almost certain that Salvatore wrote these himself, as it's too much exposition to have been put in the screenplay. Nevertheless, here the characters feel warm, real, and developed, and where Salvatore's true skill comes through. These chapters are exactly the kind of material that make a good movie-to-novel adaptation, by filling in an expanding on people we didn't get a chance to really know in the movie. If the rest of the book could've featured the same depth, I would've liked it a lot better.
Die-hard fans will probably want this in their collection, just for completeness, and for the bonus storyboards included (no doubt an attempt to get people who bought the hardcover to shell out again for a few pages of new stuff). For everyone else, there's a wealth of Star Wars published material out there that is much better than this, starting with R.A. Salvatore's Vector Prime.
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Title: Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks, George Lucas ISBN: 0345434110 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Force Heretic II: Refugee (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 16) by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0345428714 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Force Heretic III: Reunion (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 17) by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0345428722 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Star Wars: The Approaching Storm by Alan Dean Foster ISBN: 0345442997 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Force Heretic I: Remnant (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, Book 15) by Sean Williams, Shane Dix ISBN: 0345428706 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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