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Eh.

I was a dumb-ass and out of boredom bought and and read the novel 2 weeks before the movie came out while taking the train from Philly to Connecticut.

Ummm, ROTS came out May 19, 2005. I still believe we're in March.

I foolishly read the AOTC novel before the movie came out. After the dissapointment that was the movie compared to the book, I vowed to spare myself the same condition with ROTS.

DesertFly wrote:I foolishly read the AOTC novel before the movie came out. After the dissapointment that was the movie compared to the book, I vowed to spare myself the same condition with ROTS.

Wow. I thought the AOTC novelisation was absolute garbage. To me, it read like a script with a few bits of description tossed in here and there. The ROTS and TPM novelisations were excellent but AOTC . . . not so much in my opinion. Then again I bloody hated Vector Prime too so maybe the author's writing style just doesn't agree with me.

Crazy_Vasey wrote:

DesertFly wrote:I foolishly read the AOTC novel before the movie came out. After the dissapointment that was the movie compared to the book, I vowed to spare myself the same condition with ROTS.

Wow. I thought the AOTC novelisation was absolute garbage. To me, it read like a script with a few bits of description tossed in here and there. The ROTS and TPM novelisations were excellent but AOTC . . . not so much in my opinion. Then again I bloody hated Vector Prime too so maybe the author's writing style just doesn't agree with me.

I wasn't too fond of the ROTS novelization myself. I didn't like the constant "This is how it feels to be...." and after the controlled crash (or what to call it) on Coruscant, it felt as if Stover ran out of time and rushed the rest of the book and didn't elaborate so much on things as he had done in the opening chapters (which perhaps is a good thing. After all, it took a while for anything to happen). And Anakin's comments during the slaughter of the Seperatist leaders were silly. However, there were things I liked. The confrontation between the posse and Palpatine was better handled in the novel and the EU references were nice.

I wasn't too fond of the ROTS novelization myself. I didn't like the constant "This is how it feels to be...." and after the controlled crash (or what to call it) on Coruscant, it felt as if Stover ran out of time and rushed the rest of the book and didn't elaborate so much on things as he had done in the opening chapters (which perhaps is a good thing. After all, it took a while for anything to happen). And Anakin's comments during the slaughter of the Seperatist leaders were silly. However, there were things I liked. The confrontation between the posse and Palpatine was better handled in the novel and the EU references were nice.

The only parts I didn't like were Anakin's "You don't find me handsome?" quip on Mustafar, and c-3PO's added dialoge. Other than that, I thought the ROTS novelization was excellent, better than most of the others. Then again, I like Stover's style (heavy on introspection) in all of his EU books. If that's not your thing, though, I can see how it might get a bit tiring.

Mange the Swede wrote:
Wow. I thought the AOTC novelisation was absolute garbage. To me, it read like a script with a few bits of description tossed in here and there. The ROTS and TPM novelisations were excellent but AOTC . . . not so much in my opinion. Then again I bloody hated Vector Prime too so maybe the author's writing style just doesn't agree with me.

I wasn't too fond of the ROTS novelization myself. I didn't like the constant "This is how it feels to be...." and after the controlled crash (or what to call it) on Coruscant, it felt as if Stover ran out of time and rushed the rest of the book and didn't elaborate so much on things as he had done in the opening chapters (which perhaps is a good thing. After all, it took a while for anything to happen). And Anakin's comments during the slaughter of the Seperatist leaders were silly. However, there were things I liked. The confrontation between the posse and Palpatine was better handled in the novel and the EU references were nice.[/quote]

I definitely agree that some of the later parts of the book felt terribly rushed. The Anakin Vs. Obi-Wan duel really should have got a hell of a lot more page space than it did, especially compared to the earlier duel with Dooku which seemed to go on for much, much longer than the battle in the film. But that didn't really spoil my enjoyment of the book all that much. Lightsabre duels aren't half as good in textual form anyway I think.

I liked the 'this is how it feels to be . . .' sections though. They did get a little much at times but the payoff at the end with Anakin's transformation into Vader was more than worth it.

I just like Stover's writing though.

One thing that bothered me is how he spent so little time on ground battles, he never even showed anything on Kashykk.