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Official Star Wars Episode III novel leaked!
Posted: 2005-03-23 05:45pm
by RebelRoss0587
Wow, check out
Small link for the leaked official Star Wars Episode III Revenge of the Sith novel. The last chapter was so sad and well written that it brought a tear to my eye.
Posted: 2005-03-23 05:53pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Already posted about in several places.
Oh, and thanks for just copy/pasting what was posted at MillenniumFalcon.com (I recognised several typos) and putting it on your forum with no source credit so you could get some free hits...
Posted: 2005-03-23 06:14pm
by Cabwi Desco
favorite line that fills a plot hole...
"and the protocol droid."
"yes sir?"
"Have its memory erased."
so R2-D2 knew ALL ALONG!
Posted: 2005-03-23 06:23pm
by Xenophobe3691
I like the part where Anakin discovers what he did to Padme, and learns the price of his impatience.
He had it coming.
Posted: 2005-03-23 06:25pm
by Enforcer Talen
I love the description of vader.
Posted: 2005-03-23 06:47pm
by Vympel
And you rage and scream and reach through the Force to crush the shadow who has destroyed you, but you are so far less now than what you were, you are more than half machine, you are like a painter gone blind, a composer gone deaf, you can remember where the power was but the power you can touch is only a memory, and so with all your world-destroying fury it is only droids around you that implode, and equipment, and the table on which you were strapped shatters, and in the end, you cannot touch the shadow.
In the end, you do not even want to.
In the end, the shadow is all you have left.
Because the shadow understands you, the shadow forgives you, the shadow gathers you unto itself?
And within your furnace heart, you burn in your own flame.
This is how it feels to be Anakin Skywatker.
Forever. . .
That's pretty cool.
Posted: 2005-03-23 06:53pm
by Imperial Overlord
Matt Stover is a great writer. His Overworld novels are nicely brutal and he is an excellent pick to write this novelization. If you get the opportunity, check of Heros Die and The Blade of Tyshall. I'm awaiting the third one.
Posted: 2005-03-23 06:59pm
by Elheru Aran
I would recommend putting a spoiler warning in the thread title. Even though it's obvious, there are gonna be people who are still going to just click on the thread; while the link is the main spoiler, I've noted people putting quotes and the like in this thread.
Posted: 2005-03-23 07:53pm
by Master of Ossus
I dunno... I really don't like what I see from the dialogue. I hope the movie's much different.
Posted: 2005-03-23 07:54pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
From what I've been keeping track of, Stover added in lots more dialogue than what's in the actual film.
Posted: 2005-03-23 08:05pm
by RebelRoss0587
OK, I now have Chapter 18 posted there as well.
From what I've been keeping track of, Stover added in lots more dialogue than what's in the actual film.
That's kind of how it was with the last two books as well.
Posted: 2005-03-23 09:21pm
by Vympel
MUAHAHAHHAHA. This novel is fucking cool. Lots of great EU being made sweet, sweet, indisputable CANON. Especially Clonetrooper weaponry and equipment.
Posted: 2005-03-23 10:29pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
I must offer one criticism beyond the two that I posted in the Spoiler Thread, which is that I feel Stover is a little too verbose and overly-dramatic for my tastes at times.
Posted: 2005-03-23 11:02pm
by Vympel
I find the level of detail refreshing for one. Really, they should've used EU authors for the previous novelizations, the astounding vagueness of the previous ones can be quite frustrating. Just call the Republic gunship a LAAT, for chrisskaes ... for example.
Posted: 2005-03-23 11:05pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Someone on MF is criticising the book that it's too grammatically simple, and on something like a junior highschool reading level...
Posted: 2005-03-23 11:10pm
by Admiral Drason
Well now we know how Yoda and Obi Wan were able to be absorbed into the force.
Posted: 2005-03-23 11:12pm
by Imperial Overlord
Lets attack the book for being clear, accessable, and understandible.
God forbid you don't have to struggle to understand your entertainment reading. I hate those fuckers who think that a book has to be inaccessable and hard to understand to be any good.
Posted: 2005-03-23 11:20pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Um, you haven't even read it, you said.
No, he's just saying it's written poorly. I actually agree with him to a degree: the writing is clunky.
This is exactly what he said, for the record:
I don't mean to be an asshole, but the writing flat-out sucks. It seems like at least half of the sentences are choppy, broken, and incomplete. Granted that this gives something of a dramatic effect, the fact remains that it is grammatically atrocious and written at a 7th/8th-grade level. Quite frankly, the writing style gets very old after about 6 pages. The content is excellent, but the delivery is exceptionally poor.
Anyhow, as poorly-written as the book is, it's obvious that EpIII easily has the potential to be a truly great movie (not just a great Star Wars movie). Let's hope that the Bearded One gets it right this time.
Posted: 2005-03-24 12:21am
by Vympel
Meh, its purely subjective. I like the writing style myself.
Posted: 2005-03-24 01:32am
by Imperial Overlord
I have read his previous novels and am quite familiar with Stover's work. I know Stover's writing style and I happen to think it is quite good.
And I read one chapter before I stopped myself. By the quote, he's bitching about the whole book.
Fuck him. I'm happy they are getting someone who can get a gripping action scene and knows how to ratchet up the tension to write ROTS instead of hacks like Stackpole.
Posted: 2005-03-24 07:19am
by Crown
God dammit!
The scans of Chapter 18 piss me off, because you can almost make out the first page of Chapter 19, but it's too faint. I mean I've been trying for a while, but still no love.
Posted: 2005-03-24 08:55am
by His Divine Shadow
wait wait, what the hell what?
They are building the first death star that soon?
Posted: 2005-03-24 09:00am
by Vympel
We already know from the ANH novelization that the DS1 was not built quickly. Considering they had to hide it from the Senate etc, this is not suprising. Palpatine didn't have a free hand like he did after he dissolved the Senate.
Posted: 2005-03-24 01:45pm
by Illuminatus Primus
Perhaps they encountered problems with the design during construction, hence the Death Star prototype.
Posted: 2005-03-24 02:18pm
by THEHOOLIGANJEDI
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I must offer one criticism beyond the two that I posted in the Spoiler Thread, which is that I feel Stover is a little too verbose and overly-dramatic for my tastes at times.
I agree. Overall it was very well worded and deep. But he got a little too carried away.