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A review by theliteraryapothecary
The Star Wars Trilogy by Donald F. Glut, George Lucas, James Kahn
4.0
This was a book selected by my patner, John, for his "birthday read" - every year I let him select one book to add to my tbr during his birth month (September). This year he chose The Star Wars Trilogy - which was actually 3 books and that's why it's taken me now to the end of October to finish.
The Star Wars trilogy is actually the novelization of the first 3 Star Wars movies: Epsidoes 4, 5, and 6 (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi). This is a unique idea being that usually books are turned into movies, not the other way around. And while I did enjoy experiencing these stories in this mode, I thought that the nostalgia wore off a bit after A New Hope and that some scenes worked better in film than in book format - they were just hard for me to imagine sometimes, on my own.
See below for my CAWPILE Breakdown of all 3 books and the average CAWPILE score, which is where the trilogy rating comes from:
A New Hope CAWPILE Breakdown:
Characters: 8
Atmosphere/Setting: 9
Writing Style: 8.5
Plot: 8
Intrigue: 7
Logic/Relationships:9
Enjoyment: 9
Atmosphere/Setting: 9
Writing Style: 8.5
Plot: 8
Intrigue: 7
Logic/Relationships:9
Enjoyment: 9
Total = 58.5/7 = 8.3 = 4.5 stars
The Empire Strikes Back CAWPILE Breakdown:
Characters: 7
Atmosphere/Setting: 8
Writing Style: 8
Plot: 7.5
Intrigue: 6
Logic/Relationships: 8.5
Enjoyment: 8
Atmosphere/Setting: 8
Writing Style: 8
Plot: 7.5
Intrigue: 6
Logic/Relationships: 8.5
Enjoyment: 8
Total = 53/7 = 7.5 = 4 stars
Return of the Jedi CAWPILE Breakdown:
Characters: 9
Atmosphere/Setting: 8.5
Writing Style: 7 (one difference in writing style with this author compared to the first two, this one wrote out Chewbacca's and Artoo Detoo's speech as dialogue instead of just saying something along the lines of "Artoo said in a series of beeps..." At times it was distracting, but then I got to a point I just skipped over those lines and felt like it wasn't needed.)
Plot: 8
Intrigue: 6
Logic/relationships: 8
Enjoyment: 7.5
Total 54/7 = 7.7 = 4 stars
Atmosphere/Setting: 8.5
Writing Style: 7 (one difference in writing style with this author compared to the first two, this one wrote out Chewbacca's and Artoo Detoo's speech as dialogue instead of just saying something along the lines of "Artoo said in a series of beeps..." At times it was distracting, but then I got to a point I just skipped over those lines and felt like it wasn't needed.)
Plot: 8
Intrigue: 6
Logic/relationships: 8
Enjoyment: 7.5
Total 54/7 = 7.7 = 4 stars
Trilogy CAWPILE Average:
8.3 + 7.5 + 7.7 = 23.5/3 = 7.8 = 4 stars