Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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Narrated by:
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Marc Thompson
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By:
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Jason Fry
About this listen
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Jason Fry, read by Marc Thompson.
Written with input from director Rian Johnson, this official adaptation of Star Wars: The Last Jedi expands on the film to include scenes from alternate versions of the script and other additional content.
From the ashes of the Empire has arisen another threat to the galaxy’s freedom: the ruthless First Order. Fortunately, new heroes have emerged to take up arms - and perhaps lay down their lives - for the cause. Rey, the orphan strong in the Force; Finn, the ex-stormtrooper who stands against his former masters; and Poe Dameron, the fearless X-wing pilot, have been drawn together to fight side-by-side with General Leia Organa and the Resistance. But the First Order's Supreme Leader Snoke and his merciless enforcer Kylo Ren are adversaries with superior numbers and devastating firepower at their command. Against this enemy, the champions of light may finally be facing their extinction. Their only hope rests with a lost legend: Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Where the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens ended, Star Wars: The Last Jedi begins, as the battle between light and dark climbs to astonishing new heights.
©2018 Jason Fry (P)2018 Random House AudiobooksThis movie is in my top 3 fave SE movies…the book builds on it so well with so many interesting details
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Amazing adaption of an incredible movie
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Most impressed by Marc Thompson's reading too, voices are very well done, for the most part. particularly Kylo Ren and Leia Organa - top marks!!
Wow...
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However, as a Fin/Poe shipper, um, no. Rose, he is not that into you 🤷🏼♀️ But Luke explaining Rey as his niece, oh my goodness, so so poetic.
Just for Fin/Poe!!!
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This novelization can be very favourably compared with the previous one, Alan Dean Foster's adaptation of The Force Awakens, which was serviceable, but only skated over the surfaces of many of the characters, leaving them resembling cardboard cutouts of themselves. Here, by contrast, Fry dives deep into the characters and actually allows them to have real feelings. I really appreciated in particular how he portrayed Leia's feelings about her failure to save Alderaan and the Hosnian system, an aspect of her character that I feel is often left criminally underexplored. After all, the destruction of a whole star system with a Death Star-like superweapon does, in a sense, represent a colossal failure on the part of the original trilogy heroes, that all but wipes out their achievement in those films. It makes total sense that Leia would feel the weight of that failure.
I also really enjoyed the way Fry wrote about the Force. His eloquent descriptions of its workings breathed new life into the concept, felt spiritually plausible, and added valuable tidbits to Star Wars' canon, whilst still feeling wholly consistent with things we learned from the prequels. This I suspect has much to do with Fry's background as an author of reference books for the franchise, like the Essential Atlas. His deep understanding of and love for the franchise is clear.
Some of the reservations I had about the film are still present in the story, such as the seemingly-easily-avoidable Poe/Holdo conflict. I think that, given that story, this novelization is perhaps the best possible adaptation; the ability to delve into the characters' motivations gives more justification for their actions and helps the reader suspend disbelief, in a way that's more difficult to accomplish on film.
The icing on the cake for this audio edition is Marc Thompson's narration. Thompson also narrated The Force Awakens' audiobook, and again The Last Jedi is a huge step up. Having a few years to work on his impressions of Rey and Finn, etc after the release of that first film clearly paid off, but that's not the only improvement: Thompson's impression of Carrie Fisher is the best I've ever heard here. For some reason hers seems to be a very difficult voice to imitate, and is one of the few that the Star Wars universe had never really found a good soundalike for. But here Thompson really nails it! All of his voices make this not just an excellent novelization, but an excellent audio production as well.
An excellent adaptation
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Even better then the movie.
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but.. as a new franchise it is a solid story and the book explains far better than the movie.
solid story
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