Josh Ling

This is one of those like weird books that has, at the beginning, some discussion of how Threepio was made (which was really nice actually, I learned some new things--like that he's "3" because he's the third member of the Skywalker family after Shmi and Anakin and uh I needed to lie down after that.) The middle section is basically a recap of uh everything Threepio was involved in, just rewritten out as a narrative? Which was kind of weird, to be honest, and obviously is out of date and wrong at this point; the book came out I assume shortly after The Phantom Menace, which strongly colors the narrative. The last section is uh a listing of the different kinds of products C3PO is on?? Which might be cool if you're a collector, I guess, but was really weird for me.

Overall this book was sort of interesting but mostly weird and honestly I bought it in the first place because the shape of it was so WILD (it's like... cut diagonally? It's shaped like a weird rhombus?) and it was about C3PO, but I had a good time reading it so. Mixed bag!… (mehr)