[ernesttomlinson]

The day before yesterday my mate and I were shopping for groceries and, in the store, I saw a girl reading the ROTS book. I didn't know that this was out yet. Has anyone here read it? What light, if any, does it cast on the upcoming movie?

Incidentally, I did read the Terry Brooks PHANTOM MENACE novel on a flight from Seattle to New York. I'll say this about the book, it was perfect airline reading: lightweight, requiring little concentration of attention or intelligence, and soon over.

[snaithbert]

Whoops, please see the next post.

I am dumb.

This post has been edited by snaithbert: 11 April 2005 - 01:37 PM

[snaithbert]

lightweight, requiring little concentration of attention or intelligence, and soon over.

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That's a pretty accurate way to describe the entire prequel trilogy, actually.

Hiyooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

[HK 47]

I've heard from quite a few people that the authors of these books are doing their damndest to conceal Lucas more blatantly stupid ideas. I mean, how do they describe the Blue Ball at the end of Phantom Menace?

[njamilla]

I"m reading it. It's okay. Not as good as Shatterpoint. Of course, it's not Stover's script, is it?

Unlike past novels, there's more meat in this version. Stover is pretty straight forward. He gives you loads of insights which come directly from GL. If a character thinks it, it's basically been approved by GL who did a line-by-line edit on the novel.

I'm rather enjoying it as a novel and looking forward to the movie being made about it. Usually the SW books are visual translations of the movie. Stover gives little in visual -- he gets into character sketches.

I'm working on a review of the book for Amazon.com. I read the 50+ posts and they're all you basic I hate it, I love it. Of course no one has picked up on the fact that Stover's modeling his prose on one of the greatest sword fighting books in history -- the Three Musketeers.