21 Dec
2006
21 Dec
'06
2:10 p.m.
I got a hankering to read the Star Wars novelizations recently, more for completeness than for intrinsic interest in the writing. First two--Episodes I and II (Brooks and Salvatore)--were god-awful, nearly put me off the project. But the Salvatore book contained an extract from Matthew Stover's "Shatterpoint"--and that had sparkle and believability. So I got and read "Shatterpoint" next--and it's a goddamned good book! Stover also wrote Ep. III, and I'm quickly going through that. It's an example of how a good writer can take a screenplay and give it novelistic weight and heft. Steve/Stacey