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"'I want to come with you to Alderaan,' Luke said, resolved. 'I wantto become a Jedi like my father.'" This marks the start of Luke Skywalker's involvement with the Rebellion in George Lucas's grand narrative of good versus evil, Read more

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Enjoyable Refresher
Here's my perspective on this --- it's been a very long time since I've seen the original films. So I came into this with the more recent films fresh on my mind.
Alan Dean Foster's ghost
This was a great read.I read this book as a kid, however, once I started my hardcover star wars collection I decided to repurchase this novel.
You need to know
Before you read this book you need to know two things. One, although the cover says "By George Lucas" this book was NOT written by Lucas but by a hired author. Two, the book was released six months before the movie, so it is based on the unfinished cut and includes deleated scenes and some minor changes such as red-five to blue-five. It even suggests R2D2 having arms. This book novelizes the movie very well and is enjoyable, but I stoped reading it at the halfway point myself. Although well done, it isntmuch more than a script of the movie when it comes to dialogue and plot. ... Read more

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my review by happy man
it was great but it wasn't, if ya see what I mean... anyway, I'm gay. it was goooooooooooooogley good! aha aha.

Politics, intrigue, and the boy who would be Vader.....
I have been fascinated with screenplays and the art of writing them since I read my first copy of Carol Titleman's The Art of Star Wars, a trade paperback which, along with production paintings, costume designs, photos of models, composites, and storyboards, contained the uncut fourth draft of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. (This, by the by, was the first time I saw the new moniker for the film everyone still calls "Star Wars.")In that book, I not only read lines of dialogue and relived some of my favorite movie moments (this was before I owned my first VCR), but I also saw scenes that had been left out of the final film, either left unshot or deleted after filming (such as Han's encounter with Jabba the Hutt.) very cool for the more hardcore fans.........
First off, I thought the flick was pretty good, though a little too slow in the middle.It needed more action, more depth, less clumsy dialogue, and less kiddie stuff.We all know that now.Okay.With that in mind, the screenplay is great in some parts, and groan out loud bad in others.If you're one of the more forgiving (and less bandwagon-jumping obsessed) hardcore fans, it's a treasure.Even with all it's faults, it's cool to sit down and read how the pieces begin to fall into place.Also, this is an uncut script, so a lot of the deleted stuff you see on the DVD is in here, as is some cut dialogue.Again, I wouldn't advise this for the passive Star Wars fan, but it is a must-have for the REAL (being a relative term, of course) Star Wars fan. ... Read more

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An adventure through the space - fun continuium
In a well illustrated format, this book reveals the colorful nature of a world "A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away..." The story is fairly well, written, though at certain turns, the plot is,in itself,perhaps too complex to capture the attention of the young reader. Yes, thepictures are, as far as I am concered, the highlight of the book. Thevariety of color allow one's imagination to run wild into the world evenwithout having one's eyes glued to the screen of a theatre. ... Read more

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