Customer Reviews

Return of the Jedi (Classic Star Wars)

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

We got this along with A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back as a way to introduce our kids to the story. Our oldest is inundated with Star Wars at school and isn't really sure of the story.This was one of three books that did a great job of introducing the story to him and help him understand the story and understand his peers. Our kids are still too young for the movie and so this helped bring them "up to speed."

The book is pretty good. I was a lttle disapointed with the scenes pictured in the book. They were dark and I believe there were better scenes to pictorially represent the movie.

I remember reading this one over and over when I was an 8-year-old (hint for the nitpickers here: you are not the target audience of this book). I checked it out from the library often.

My family didn't have a VCR back then, so this book was how I could re-live the movie while listening to John Williams' soundtrack--which I checked out at the same time. What great memories!

And I just found that this same author also wrote a number of my other childhood favorites, including "The Computer That Said 'Steal Me'," "Frankenstein Moved In On The Fourth Floor," "Dracula Is A Pain In The Neck," "Running Out of Magic with Houdini", and the "Something Queer" mystery series.

I'll admit this book is for younger kids, but I have to say that it was not very good at all. Even when I read it for the first time when I was ten years old I didn't think it was very good. The characters are all faceless and boring, except for Han who is hugely exaggerated. The writing is also boring and unimaginative, and very undiscriptive. Children ten and under probably won't care, but adults and older kids such as myself should stick with Young Jedi Knights, and some of the adult novels.

All that I have to say that this book left out A LOT of stuff. Don't get me wrong, I am a HUGE fan of Star Wars, but everyone who reads this book deserves to know more than what this book tells them.

This book suffered from the same things the movie did--namely, a lack of action. The book even left out some of the major parts, like a great deal of the space-based assault on the second Death Star, and instead concentrated on intangible elements like the Force. Don't get me wrong--I like the Force--it's just that it does not lend itself to description in a book.

I read this book, aafter I had seen the movie several times and I must say, Elizabeth Levy left out alot of the Romance and other things. But she did put a different view on things. I would give it 2 1/2 stars, but I can't!

This book suffered from the same things the movie did--namely, a lack of action. The book even left out some of the major parts, like a great deal of the space-based assault on the second Death Star, and instead concentrated on intangible elements like the Force. Don't get me wrong--I like the Force--it's just that it does not lend itself to description in a book.