BehrItAll

We can discuss any type of Star Wars book. The trouble is finding others who have read them too and actually keep a discussion going. There have been many times I posted a review and no one else read it so they didn't have much to say and the discussion was quickly dropped. (Even on Facebook. Trying to find other SW friends who read Dark Disciple has been annoying difficult. I want to talk about it with people!!!)

You can talk about other books and I'll respond to the best of my ability.

Personally, I love reading novels. I read 25-30 different genres of novels a year.

When it comes to Star Wars novels, I don't need to have the original three to enjoy the story.
I have enjoyed many of the novels that didn't have them as main characters; the X-Wing series being some. When a SW novel is good, it is GOOD. And it takes a talented author to get the tone and personality of Luke, Leia and Han perfectly.

And I perosnally don't need to take something seriously to enjoy it. This is all genres. I have enjoyed fluffy fiction.
With SW I don't even care anymore if it's "Legends" or "canon", if the story is well told and I enjoyed it I consider that a success.

I can't say much about the screenplays. Anytime I start to read a screenplay I get really distracted. I need paragraphs with descriptions of feelings and settings. Just lines of dialogue is not enough to keep me entertained.

CommanderM

I think I had a copy of the RotJ screenplay but dont have the foggiest idea where it is now. Did it have illustrations of set peieces left out of the film? Does it include the novelisation dialogue between Ben and Luke about Ben being brother of Owen Lars, or any mention of it? ENLIGHTEN me, I want to learn!

BehrItAll

I remember it said that in the RotJ novelization.

CommanderM

Isn't it interesting that Lucas may have dropped that dialogue from the finished film? I dont know if it was in the original screenplay thats why I say it that way.

sum1

That's not in the screenplay, but the Annotated Screenplays book has a discussion of that.

BehrItAll

So at what point was it changed and why?

sum1

I don't remember the precise details. I think it was something they considered during filming but didn't go with, that got into the novelization instead.

CommanderM

I wonder why they chose to not use it? Surely, they did not have any idea Owen would turn out to be Anakin's stepbrother by the time AotC was made?

sum1

They didn't. As with most things, Lucas made it up as he went along.

CommanderM

That is what I thought. So it makes little sense that he chose not to establish Ben and Owen as brothers in RotJ. That and they never explored Leia's memories of being hidden by her real mother in her early years from the Empire..

BehrItAll

So I want to share some thing with you all. My voice!

An excerpt from Star Wars: A New Hope The Princess, the Scoundrel, and the Farm Boy by Alexandra Bracken. Recorded at the Penguin Random House Audio’s booth at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim.

I was really nervous and made a few mistakes. I also talk way too fast for an audiobook, but it was fun. Just wanted to share it with a few friends.

https://youtu.be/TxGBDyjqqQ0

a new hope

Ooh thanks for sharing that You did great!

sum1

You sound different than I expected, Steph. Ok, thanks for that. Hearing your voice will help me understand you more.

a new hope

I agree that I expected you to sound different

sum1

Why they need a new novelization of ANH beats me. The old one didn't vanish in a puff of smoke.