Unironically a great novel
>>24993453It's better than the film but that's being damned by faint praise
>>24993453“Papering over shit movies trying to explain their plot holes and retard logic” is a wonderful genre. Alan Dean Foster wrote a decent book about his adventures (he adapted Alien, The Thing, Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers…). They ignore him and he doesn’t get the scripts and only the vaguest outlines, they don’t want him on set, limited access to key information like the design of the monster in Alien. Truly the red headed step child of moviemaking. But the bean counters want the book ready to sell when the movie launches basically. So they just make shit up. And their “explanations” of movies have no input whatsoever from the creatives, and they get ignored as far as canon goes. Which is why it’s funny that tie-in books have always had such a fanbase that insists that the book “explains” something about the movies or that it shows what the director’s real vision was or other crap. I’ve seen those assertions since the Usenet days. Luckily these days nobody reads so all this shit goes into the pulp bin unread and undiscussed. Thanks for reading my blog. Oh his book is “The director should have shot you”
It's slop
>>24993453This was the first real novel I ever read. I was 14 and it was 2005. Before that I skimmed or pretended to read. This was the first that I read for fun. Good times. Amazing book. Better than the movie.
>>24993661AgreedI really disliked the author’s pompous third person voice. It’s like a “gifted” high schooler putting on airs of being a great writer and churning out the most edgy trite fanfic imaginable. I don’t understand the love for this book at allThis shit got a fancy hardcover reprint.
>>24993453Grow up.
>>24993453The empire strikes back book is pretty good too. It stays close to the movie and does a good job of capturing the star wars magic
>>24993718Star wars books are better than anything written in the 19th century
>>24993453This. I also recommend the Darth Plagueis novel
>>24996047The Plagueis novel is one of the best things to come out of the entire franchise, at least better than all of the movies.
