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[oloriel]

Right. Now I've been fed with all those quotes from the Ep III novelization, I am shocked to find that EVERY DIRTY THOUGHT that crossed my mind during that movie seems to have crossed the writer's mind, too. And then some.

In fact, I don't think Matt Stower actually wrote that book. It looks more like he was too busy and handed the whole stuff over to his daughter (I am assuming that he has one, and I'm assuming she writes slashfic) who happily wrote the book, taking all the implications literal and slashing anything in sight.
I can practically see the editors. "Dude, did George Lucas authorize THAT?!" - "Um. Well. George Lucas hates George Bush, so, you know, maybe he did..."
And it was published; and it was good.

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Jo. Jetzt habe ich noch mehr Zitate aus der Ep III-Romanfassung gelesen, und ich stelle erschreckt fest, dass jeder schmutzige Gedanke, die ich beim Schauen des Films hatte, auch dem Autoren gekommen sind. Und noch ein paar mehr.

Um ehrlich zu sein, glaube ich gar nicht mehr, dass wirklich Matt Stower das Buch geschrieben hat. Vermutlich hatte er keine Zeit und hat den ganzen Kram seiner Tochter (ich gehe davon aus, dass er eine hat, und zwar eine, die sich in Slasharchiven herumtreibt), die fröhlich das Buch schrieb und dabei jede Andeutung ausarbeitete und jede Gelegenheit zum Slashen nutzte.
Ich sehe die Editoren förmlich vor mir. "Sag mal, hat George Lucas DAS authorisiert?!" - "Öh. Naja. George Lucas hasst George Bush, also könnte es sein..."
Und es ward veröffentlicht; und es war gut.


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Comments

[furius.livejournal.com]

It's really sad that now I want to read it...I haven't even seen the movie yet.

So, what order do you recommend?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Hm. The book seems to be much better on character development, dialogues and allaround story (there's stuff in the book that got cut out of the movie, for example). So you might be disappointed if you watch the movie after reading the book first. So maybe first movie, first book?

It probably depends on how you generally think about movies based on books. This time it's the other way 'round, but the book is still likely to be better than the movie... so. If you like book-based movies (in general), I suppose the order doesn't matter. But if any movie you saw after reading the book disappointed you, you might want to give the movie the chance to be seen before reading...