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Summary: Exciting and thrilling. Top book!!
Review: This is differently a good book. Even though the movie was similar, but this told delted sences and something you could really get into. I enjoyed this book a lot and evdvice people who are into star Wars or trying to get into it, to buy it. The way he told about Anakin and Obi-wan was great. And the love sences. Well, don't want to relive any thing. But it's good.
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Summary: Read This!!!!!!
Review: Star Wars Episode Two, Written by R.A. Salvator and based upon the story and screenplay by George Lucas, is an awsome book, especially if you are interested in the Star Wars Universe. This book also goes into much more detail than the movie. You will understand the story much more if you read the book instead of just watching the movie. Star Wars Episode Two takes place 10 years after Episode One and is partly a romance, but it still keeps its science-fiction qualities. This has been one of my favorite books mostly because I am very interested in the Star Wars Saga. I very much recommend this book, especially for those who are interested in Star Wars.
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Summary: Who is R. A. Salvatore...
Review: ... and why did he get paid for this [junk]? I've seen fan fiction written by high school kids better than this. Again and again, Salvatore fails to deliver the goods, turning a fun, exciting movie into an exercise in drudgery and mangled prose. We are never given descriptions of any of the characters, location, ships and weapons, etc. other than the brief "long silky brown hair" on occasion. Anyone not already intimately familiar with the Star Wars milieu, and ATOC in particular, will have a hard time trying to follow just what the hell is going on. The emotional passages are flat, the characters completely undeveloped, and the battle scenes bland and uninteresting. I don't buy the idea that this book had to be dumbed down for the kids. I read "Dune" at age eleven, and didn't miss a thing. Kids ain't that stupid, Sal. But maybe your fans are.
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Summary: A really good book!!
Review: This is a great audio book and with the sound effects it's even
better. There is more insight and detail about the characters than the movie. The reader is also introduced to Padme's parents, sister and nieces. As usual, I thought the book was better than the movie.
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Summary: Fantastic book that provides fun background details to movie
Review: I absolutely loved this book! I am an avid Star Wars fan for over 25 years and have read most of the novels. Not only was this book true to a great movie, it provided very interesting background to many of the characters that a movie would not have allowed time for. The reading was easy to follow and enjoyable. The extra background on the Lars family, Padme and her family as well as Jango was fantastic! The book left me eagerly waiting for the next movie! In some respects, it will be a sad day when that last movie is made and then books will be our only source for new Star Wars material!
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Summary: Terrific
Review: I bought this book after seeing the movie twice. I have only recently become a Star Wars fanatic, but despite this condition, my opinion on the quality of the movie and book is totally unbiased. :) The movie was very good, but some parts felt missing--in many parts of Episode II, Attack of the Clones, it felt as if scenes had been truncated, or as if they could have been extended. I also didn't quite grasp the plot completely after the first viewing. But the novel fills in the gaps admirably; it was a terrific read, and I absolutely could not put it down. Salvatore's style is extremely engaging, and he goes far deeper with Shmi Skywalker, Padme Amidala, Anakin, and many of the other characters than the movie could ever hope to. It accomplishes what a cinematic feature never could--a full-length tale complete with twists and turns and intrigue of every sort. The movie also makes more sense--the characters become deeper, more complex, and the manner in which Salvatore presents them is very intimate and warm. With the book, we dive deeper into Padme's conflicting emotions concerning the budding romance between her and Anakin, and we also get a chance to experience some of her family life. We get a closer look at Shmi Skywalker, Anakin's mother, and see how profoundly she loves her son, and how much she misses her once little, but now grown Anakin. We also experience Anakin on a deeper level; Anakin's metamorphisis from boy to young man is clearly shown, as is the massive grief that he experiences because of the separation from his mother; his frustration at Obi-Wan, yet also his deep love for his Jedi Master, are thoughtfully and expertly written as well. We are thrown headlong into his thoughts and his feelings, and get a good look at his dark side--he feels everything so deeply, so profoundly, and it is easy to see how he could become the evil Darth Vader. His temper is quick to rise, yet quick to subside as well, and he is often remorseful. There are ominous hints concerning the dark future of the doomed galaxy. Yet on a lighter note, the romance between Padme and Anakin is beautifully written. Their interactions and dialouge are captivating. Their intense love for one another is heartrending, and Anakin's fierce devotion to Padme and the confession of his deep, unyielding love for her is moving. Padme Amidala, as a senator for the people of Naboo, is afraid to mix romance with affairs of the state. Her conflicting feelings are very real and wonderfully written. It is easy to see how their passionate love for each other could end up destroying them both. (So much for the lighter note.) I feel that anyone who has seen this movie should read this book in order to gain a clearer understanding of the film, and in turn, a better grasp of the epic story that George Lucas has so masterfully woven. If not to become more involved and aware of the fathomless Star Wars universe, read it to enjoy a really great novel. (The cover is beautiful!) --In addition, the print is relatively large and well-spaced, and therefore easy on the eyes. It is relatively short, but if the thickness of the novel daunts you, here's a reminder that the novel is jam-packed with action, from a breath-taking, thrilling chase on a speeder in Coruscant, to a good old-fashioned fight between space craft against a classic landscape of stars, to a light-sabre battle involving a certain green, diminutive Jedi Master. Read this novel, one must.
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Summary: wow!!
Review: i thought this was an excellent book!! it was so well written and i didn't get bored. i'm not going into details about the book, i don't want to give any thing away. i'll leave that for you to find out. if you watched the movie already or you plan to in the near future read the book first. it has a few little things that are not in the movie that would be nice to know.
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Summary: I don't understand why people are picking on this book!
Review: I, for one, think R.A. Salvatore did a terrific job with this book! It's fast, it's fun, it accurately represents the movie, and it adds depth with additional (and wonderfully emotional) scenes that are not in the movie. The writing is fine. People who think a creative writing class makes them experts on the English language are naive and don't understand literature. Let them go read Faulkner, or Virginia Woolfe, or other "greats," where they'll find all kinds of language "rule breaking" going on. And occasional verbosity (which, for one reviewer who criticized the author for being "verbose," does not have anything to do with the use of "odd" words). Using sentence fragments for emphasis or effect is a completely accepted style in today's English--particularly in fiction. I found this book a breeze to read. Frankly, the only parts I didn't care for were parts that were lifted directly from the movie (both dialog and whole scenes--the romance, in particular), which, as I understand it, the author was required to do. This is a novelization based on a movie script! It is not allowed to mess with dialog or movie events! That's my impression, anyway. I enjoyed the movie, but I found parts of it disappointing, and I thought Salvatore handled those parts as well as possible for any author. And the stuff he added--those moving scenes with Shmi, and that terrific father-son scene with Jango and Boba--were truly wonderful. I liked the book even better after seeing the movie. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to every Star Wars fan, and I'm sick of seeing the author bashed by people who don't know what they're talking about. (By the way, I've never met the man, but if I ever do--and I'm even tempted to go to a signing--I will tell him all this myself!)
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Summary: A great supplement to the movie
Review: After having enjoyed the movie, I eagerly devoured R.A. Salvatore's novelization of Star Wars, Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Most fans who will read this novelization will already be familiar with the saga thus far, or have seen this movie, so I will skip summarizing any of the plot. This was the fourteenth novel, by Salvatore that I have read, and I feel that his writing has improved with every novel that he has written. The characters in AOTC are given more depth than those in his earlier works. His battle scenes have always been good, but just keep getting better. This novel contains several scenes that the movie does not. The extra scenes include interaction with Padme's family, the Lars family before and after the kidnapping of Shmi, and additional material that would lengthen the scenes in which Obi-Wan Kenobi pursued Jango Fett. The extra material worked well. For one thing, the romance between Anakin and Padme becomes much more plausible with the background that Salvatore provides, as well as the inner thoughts of the characters he provides the reader. In addition, Kenobi's pursuit of Fett and his concerns about Anakin make more sense after reading the additional interactions he has with Yoda and Mace Windu that weren't in the movie. The moves of Chancellor Palpatine and the Senate make more sense in the novel as well. The conflict between the Republic and the Seperatists is given more attention and the events that precipitate the war are laid out better. My only complaint about the novel might be that the climatic sequences of the movie are crammed into the final 60-70 pages of the book. Salvatore pulls it off because he writes battles so well, but I was looking forward to reading his interpretation of some scenes and how he might have added additional color to the climax. All this being said, I really enjoyed AOTC. Star Wars fans, casual and obsessive (such as myself), will probably love it, and that is really who it is aimed at. I'd recommend this to anyone that likes science fiction or Star Wars. It makes a great supplement to the movie.
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Summary: RELIVE THE MAGIC OF THE MOVIE
Review: I bought the audio book a week after I saw star wars episode II
I already had the regular book bought I love to hear audio books
as well.Johnthan Hales done a great naration.Its more like a
audio drama instead of a run of the mill audiobook.Johthan Hales
done a great personation of yoda and other characters as well
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