Rachel's Reviews > Star Wars: Return of the Jedi

This man should be punished for trying to write dialog for R2-D2 and Chewbacca. It makes for obnoxious reading, until one realizes that you can just skip those bits. It does make me wonder how Dave Wolverton could ever have read this book (assuming that he did, of course), and then go on to write the ghastly Courtship of Princess Leia.

There are some good moments spent in Vader's head at the end. Seeing Luke without the mask reminds him of how he once looked, "and this memory brought a wave of other memories with it. Memories of brotherhood, and home. His dear wife. The freedom of deep space. Obi-Wan.
"Obi-Wan, his friend. . .and how that friendship had turned. . .This boy had pulled him from that pit -here, now, with this act. This boy was good. The boy was good and the boy had come from him -so there must have been good in him, too. . .'Tell your sister. . .you were right." With that, he closed his eyes, and Darth Vader -Anakin Skywalker- died."

There were some things that don't fit into the story arc any more, but taken into total context, that last bit still makes me tear up (I am hopeless).