{"id":273,"date":"2017-01-25T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2017-09-10T16:39:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T22:39:43","slug":"book-star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/25\/book-star-wars-the-force-awakens-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Star Wars – The Force Awakens (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"StarStar Wars: The Force Awakens
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2015
\nAuthor: Alan Dean Foster
\nLength: 606 minutes \/ 10.1 hours<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been following along recently, you\u2019ll know that I\u2019ve been on a bit of a \u201cmovie\u201d kick when it comes to the audiobooks I\u2019ve listened to. While there are plenty of movies based on books, I haven\u2019t really been one to read novelizations of movies. That being said, I\u2019ve found the writing style in my own novels to be a bit of a novelization of the ideas in my mind, since I usually try and describe scenes in a cinematic way. At any rate, I was expecting a story that held close to the film, and this book certainly delivered on that promise.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit that the more I think about the plot and characters of The Force Awakens<\/em>, the more I find that it almost exactly matches the events of A New Hope<\/em>. However, there were some weaknesses in the first installment of the Star Wars<\/em> franchise that I feel are addressed in this recent installment. Sure, all the elements are there, but they\u2019ve been mixed around into different characters, settings, and conflicts that add\u00a0a bit more depth to the story than the archetypical one presented in A New Hope<\/em>. As a reboot, The Force Awakens<\/em> does an excellent job of calling back to what made the original great, but doing so in a way that is still different enough to provide interesting twists and questions.<\/p>\n

One thing I do like about this version of the story, compared to the movie, is the \u201cdeleted scenes\u201d that help explain some of the plot holes from the film. Maybe these scenes hindered the flow of the movie (or weren\u2019t important enough to include) but they certainly helped me understand the story a lot better now that I know about them. Finally, while I know that many films have \u201cenhanced audio\u201d for blind people, I\u2019d almost recommend these people listen to this audiobook instead. The music, sound effects, and even many of the actors\u2019 voices all are used at a pace that\u2019s much slower in order to really grasp what\u2019s happening with the story.<\/p>\n

A fantastic audiobook that faithfully captures everything (and more) that made the film great, I give Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/em> 4.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Year: 2015 Author: Alan Dean Foster Length: 606 minutes \/ 10.1 hours If you\u2019ve been following along recently, you\u2019ll know that I\u2019ve been on a bit of a \u201cmovie\u201d kick when it comes to the audiobooks I\u2019ve listened to. While there are plenty of movies based on books, I haven\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,54],"tags":[33,286,64,55,302,8,284,285],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-5-stars","category-book","tag-33","tag-alan-dean-foster","tag-audiobook","tag-book","tag-episode-vii","tag-review","tag-star-wars","tag-the-force-awakens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}