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And in 2002 it's time for the saga to continue...In Episode I we were given the foundation of the story, many lessons were learned, particularly for young Anakin Skywalker. Now, Episode II, it's time, not only for Anakin but for all the characters, to make key choices. Choices about forbidden love, loyalty, duty and honour. These choices will set into motion events that change the lives of everyone and the course of an entire galaxy. Ultimately Episode II: Attack of the Clones has all the elements of a traditional Star Wars film, but fundamentally we will also lean more about the foundations of the original trilogy of films. Episode II establishes connections to the films and explores the development of Anakin Skywalker, it is the key to understanding the saga. We know how he ends his journey, but at this stage we don't know how, or why...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2114136 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-24
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 6
• Binding: Audio Cassette

Amazon.co.uk Review
Attack of the Clones is the inevitable novelisation of the new Star Wars movie, and fantasy author RA Salvatore does his best with a script which relies heavily on spectacular visual effects.

Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi has a hard time with his apprentice Anakin Skywalker, now 20 but lapsing frequently into teenage bad attitude. Master Yoda backward speaking still is, and disturbance great in the Force as always senses. Lovable droids R2D2 and C3PO remain terminally cute. Princess Padme Amidala is now a hot babe, a Senator of the Republic and highly disturbing to Anakin's hormonal Force. Jar Jar Binks retains his irritating accent even in print: "Mesa so smilen to see'en yousa! Wahoooo!" Political supremo Palpatine makes diplomatic noises, but we suspect he's up to no good...

When someone tries to fix a big Senate vote by assassinating Amidala, much action follows--an aerial car chase which must be hair-raising in the movie, and interstellar pursuit including a spaceship dogfight in a crowded asteroid belt. Obi-Wan discovers a lost world that's grown a warrior-clone army for mysterious reasons and another world's heavy industry is cranking out innumerable battle droids. Can the renegade Jedi with the majestic name Dooku be responsible?

Meanwhile, following orders to protect Padme by staying very close to her, Anakin sulks a lot, finds his Jedi vows of chastity dissolving fast, and is temporarily saved by a bid to rescue his mother from sadistic kidnappers on planet Tattooine.

Now, the climax: "Take them to the arena!" Our favourite characters are duly chained up as a snack for unspeakably horrible CGI beasties, but they have some tricks left--and practically everything else in the plot is converging on that arena for the mother of all special-effects battles. Many, many light-sabres come into it.

All rather silly, really: not so much a serious novel as a memento of the film, something to jog memories until the DVD release. Every hardcore Star Wars fan will want a copy. --David Langford

From the Publisher
The spectacular new Star Wars novel to tie in with the release of the new movie, Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

About the Author
R.A. Salvatore was born in Massachusetts in 1959. He has published more than a dozen novels. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Diane, and their three children.

Customer Reviews

Action packed, love story, lightsabers, need I say more?
I have to hold my hands up and admit to having eagerly anticipated the release of this novelisation for many months now, and I think that the wait was worth it. The story revolves around the developing romance between Anakin and Padme, set against the backdrop of a crumbling republic. The Jedi Knights are stretched thin, and dissent amongst their ranks as to the proper course of action during the upcoming storm heralds the rise of the dark side of the force. We are presented with an insight into the charcter of Anakin, and the scene is certainly set for his descent into Darth Vader. Salvatore has managed to present a well-balanced mix of swords, sorcery and romance within the novel, however there were one or two instances where I became a little impatient for someone to grab a lightsaber and start doing some jedi force stuff! The fight scenes were themselves well structured, and have made my anticipation of the upcoming movie even more fevered!

Attack of the Clones (Star Wars) AUDIOBOOK
I do not want to give the plot away so i will say that R.A. Salvatore has done a great job on writting the book and jontahan davis does a great job in reading it. this four cd set is full of adventure, action, romantic undertones that all come to gether at the end in an ending that fills you will joy and a deep longing for the next episode. but the best thing about this cd is that it dose not just cover the events in the movie it exspans on it, it is one of the best audio book i have ever got.

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Anakin's character lacks conflict
While many reviewers focus on the long exposition and the flat acting in "The Attack of the Clones," the greatest failure of the new Star Wars movie is much more basic. The story ignores the character established for Anakin in "The Phantom Menace." Anakin was presented and described by other characters as an open, kind-hearted and empathetic child. He befriended Qui-Gon Jinn and Padme with an open heart and risked his life for them. The Anakin in "Attack of the Clones" has none of those qualities. The writers and movie makers thus fail to explore the real conflict that they had previously set up for his character. The whole question to be answered by this trilogy, according to interviews with George Lucas, was to be "How could someone become a Darth Vader? What could happened to make someone turn from good to evil?" Had they followed Anakin's original character, we could have seen a character who was idealistic and struggling to do good, only to have his attempts met with frustration and treachery. The character could have had a joy for life and adventure that resulted in nothing but setbacks. We could watch as his illusions about the world crumbled until, totally disillusioned, he gave up in anger and frustration and turned to evil. While there are hints of this in the movie, there is no more than that. The death of his mother should have been the perverted result of dark forces in league to use him, while he naively trusted the world. Instead, her death was merely the result of living in this dangerous universe. When he kills her tormentors and admits the deed to Padme, we should see the same sort of conflict present in "Lawrence of Arabia", when Lawrence, torn with conflict, admits that the thing that bothered him most about executing a man was that "I enjoyed it." His basic goodness early on in the movie could have been the source of both humor and empathy for his character, both of which are notably absent, but which were abundant in prior Star Wars episodes such as "The Empire Strikes Back." This conflict in Anakin's character was to be the central theme of the movie. Because it is so sorely lacking, the movie loses both the depth and meaningfulness that it should have had.