The Force Awakens (Star Wars)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781101965498 (1101965495)
ASIN: 1101965495
Publish date: 2016-01-05
Publisher: LucasBooks
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
This is the first book adaptation of a film that I've read and the first I've ever wanted to. There are of course many Star Wars novels, none of which I've read. I wondered what sort of money-grabbing, hastily edited crap I might be delving into. Though in the opening pages there was some awkward la...
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS by Alan Dean Foster is the seventh book in the Star Wars: Novelizations series. It is the start of a new saga within the Star Wars universe, and is based on the events of the film. The story begins years after the events of Return of the Jedi with the return of some fami...
This book was such a huge disappointment -- just go see the movie. The writing was hit-or-miss; some parts were good others were just awful -- the action scenes were the worse. The dialogue that hadn't been lifted directly from the film or had been altered was just awful. I never once felt like I wa...
When movies are made from books, the book is almost always better. When books are made from movies, it's generally the movies that come out on top. And that pretty well sums up my feelings for this book. The movie was much better. Alan Dean Foster's writing just doesn't float my boat, which is why...
Novelisations used to be my bread and butter. As a kid, I adored them, they'd always be the first thing I'd look for when I liked a movie. I think most of my indifference to this book is me having grown out of that. And some of it is the fact that Foster, who has a long history with Star Wars, has a...