Chat corner 19: Novels

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner! Dammit, how is it almost September already? :/

 

Optional chat prompt

If you want a prompt, the topic is “movie novelizations”. Have you read any of them? All of them? What did you think?

 

Comments

[annathecrow]

As mentioned last week, we now have a permanent Dark Side post for the more ranty opinions. I also enabled anon commenting, if that changes things for any of you.

[petra]

On the advice of Tumblr, I'm going to attempt Revenge of the Sith soon, if for no other reason than that a book that contains Obi-Wan recognizing Anakin's ass while barely conscious in a moment of high stress cannot be all bad.

[stellar_dust]

Revenge of the Sith is fantastic, I’d probably reread it preferentially to actually watching the movie.

The original ANH one is also pretty good.

[yourlibrarian]

I read all the movie novelizations of the original trilogy at the time but I didn't keep any so I remember them poorly. What I do recall is that I found the novelization of New Hope enormously helpful in filling in gaps and making the story more coherent. Although things like the prequel trilogy seemed very connect-the-dots, the first film left out a lot of things. This was particularly jarring because, of course, the whole story was in another verse so there were many things one had to pick up on.

[ruuger]

I was only able to watch Empire Strikes Back several years after seeing ANH and RotJ, but I read the novelization so many times.

(it was probably one of the main contributing factor to me becoming a Han/Leia shipper)

The only other novelization I've read was for ANH, but I read them both so long ago that I can't remember if either one was genuinely good or if I just liked them because Star Wars :D

[ruuger]

contains Obi-Wan recognizing Anakin's ass while barely conscious

What.

(well, I clearly need to read that one now)

[fleurviolette]

Matt Stover’s RotS novel is amazing! I like his style of writing, which is more flowery and artistic, in contrast to Timothy Zahn’s more action based, technical writing.

I also like that Stover focuses on inner thoughts, which flesh out the characters in the main story.

[extrapenguin]

I can't believe "I'd recognize that ass anywhere!" is actually canon! It's such a delight. :D

[petra]

I Am Not Making This Up.

[petra]

Stover is a gift.

[primeideal]

Rogue One's was pretty good. I want fic about Bodhi and Misurno, his Imperial pilot buddy who gets drunk and confesses that Bodhi is his early friend. Tell me more...

A couple great quotes that have made the rounds on Tumblr were K-2: "in his final moments he imagined a scenario where Cassian escaped alive, the simulation pleased him" D:

and Bodhi to K-2: "look, Cassian reprogrammed you to overwrite your imperial programming, yeah? well, Galen Erso reprogrammed me."

[annathecrow]

I've heard about that! XD Quite a lot of people like this one.

[annathecrow]

I read the novelization for Phantom Menace as a kid, and only there I understood that Padmé was the queen all along! I was really small, though, and I must have seen it either with subtitles or completely without, so it's a miracle I undestood anything at all. XD

[annathecrow]

Oh no, that K-2 quote D:

that's high octane angst, that.