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A review by toggle_fow
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Woodring Stover
5.0
This book, to me, is THE definitive prequel media.
Novelizations are sometimes just "The Movie: Deluxe Edition," parroting everything from the movie without adding much else. This is not one of those novelizations. I can't even stress enough how much this book takes Episode III from a good but flawed movie to THE BEST POSSIBLE VERSION of itself. There are whole entire extra scenes, background for everything that seemed odd, jarring, or like a plot hole from the movie, and dialogue that I would give my eyeteeth to have seen onscreen.
Overall, Stover's novelization sews the disjointed pieces of Episode III together into a devastating crescendo befitting a space opera's tragic climax. If this book could have been reflected on the screen, "Revenge of the Sith" would make it into a lot more people's list of top 3 Star Wars movies. Please read it.
All things die, Anakin Skywalker. Even stars burn out.
11/19/2018 Edit: I am destroyed. This has got to be like my fourth time reading this, and yet I almost couldn't make it through I was so stressed. I'm a different person now than I was when I started this re-read.
It's not even that this book is a phenomenal adaptation of the Revenge of the Sith movie. Honestly, the Revenge of the Sith movie is a laughably poor adaptation of this book.
Novelizations are sometimes just "The Movie: Deluxe Edition," parroting everything from the movie without adding much else. This is not one of those novelizations. I can't even stress enough how much this book takes Episode III from a good but flawed movie to THE BEST POSSIBLE VERSION of itself. There are whole entire extra scenes, background for everything that seemed odd, jarring, or like a plot hole from the movie, and dialogue that I would give my eyeteeth to have seen onscreen.
Overall, Stover's novelization sews the disjointed pieces of Episode III together into a devastating crescendo befitting a space opera's tragic climax. If this book could have been reflected on the screen, "Revenge of the Sith" would make it into a lot more people's list of top 3 Star Wars movies. Please read it.
All things die, Anakin Skywalker. Even stars burn out.
11/19/2018 Edit: I am destroyed. This has got to be like my fourth time reading this, and yet I almost couldn't make it through I was so stressed. I'm a different person now than I was when I started this re-read.
It's not even that this book is a phenomenal adaptation of the Revenge of the Sith movie. Honestly, the Revenge of the Sith movie is a laughably poor adaptation of this book.