Book Progress

I think that the reason I don't blog much is because it's a lot of effort.  I mean, I could sit and type my thoughts about all sorts of things, but to give a single topic enough attention to fill up an entire blog post and have an entire topic?  *Gasp!*  That takes a little bit of effort, and I'm completely against that.

So, in the vein of trying to at least collect some of my thoughts on a more regular basis, I've decided to make sub-headings, so that I don't have to spend so much time writing about one subject.  Yup, that's happening.

In the future if I do this, I'll start with some sort of an intro that isn't as blunt or dry as this, but as I'm playing with a different format, I hope you'll forgive me this time.

Book Progress

I read from page 82 to page 277(?) of the Star Wars book that I'm reading.  A New Hope ends at page 260, and I'm on page 17 of The Empire Strikes Back, so we'll call that 277.  That's 195 pages!  Yay!

A New Hope was really well-written, and The Empire Strikes Back promises to be as well.  There is a different author for the second book (though still based on the George Lucas plot and all... made to tie in with the movie and whatnot).  The credit for writing A New Hope always goes to George Lucas, but Alan Dean Foster ghostwrote it.

There are a few added scenes, but follows really closely to the movie, probably why it was such a quick read.  The biggest change that was made between the book and the movie is that when they're attacking the Death Star, Luke is part of the "Blue Squadron" in the book Red.  His number (5) remains the same, but instead of Red 5, he's Blue 5.

Yup, that's the only real change.

Oh, and the "added scene" from the movie with Han and Jabba in the hangar on Tatooine?  Totally in the book.  That came out in 1977.

No Jabba, No They Aren't

All in all, 9/10, would read again.

Aaaand I need to be getting ready for work now, so there's only going to be one section for today.