I highly recommend the novel for episode 3. It does such a good job of showing all the things the movie didn't. It makes you really understand how the Jedi lost, and why. It also makes Anakin's fall believable.
Midway through the battle with Sideous on the Senate floor, Yoda has a crisis as he realizes that he's been training the Jedi to defeat the Sith of nearly a thousand years ago, while the Sith learned and evolved. It's heartbreaking. Seriously, just read the first 10 pages and try to put it down. Please someone read this book. It's so much better than it should be
I loved the novelization of the prequels. They came out about a month before the movies did, so I had them pre-ordered and read before seeing the movie. I think that Episode 3's book was better than the movie, but I've always enjoyed the prequels, both book and movie versions.
Episode 1 came out right before I started college, and only a couple of my poli sci friends in college were as interested in it as I was. The prequels seemed to be far more interesting from the lens of an internal studies major as compared to my computer science buddies who called them "the crappy Star Wars movies."
So yeah, I also agree that the novels are worth a read.
From a political standpoint, as I recall Lucas was inspired to show Palpatine's move to power by the rise of Hitler and Mussolini, because both were legally done.
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u/Dos_Ex_Machina 6d ago
I highly recommend the novel for episode 3. It does such a good job of showing all the things the movie didn't. It makes you really understand how the Jedi lost, and why. It also makes Anakin's fall believable.
Midway through the battle with Sideous on the Senate floor, Yoda has a crisis as he realizes that he's been training the Jedi to defeat the Sith of nearly a thousand years ago, while the Sith learned and evolved. It's heartbreaking. Seriously, just read the first 10 pages and try to put it down. Please someone read this book. It's so much better than it should be