This book is pretty much exactly what you'd expect, the print version of the movie. As it was written after the screenplay, it deviates very little from the movie plot. Its basically the movie without the pictures, so it does not add a lot new to the story. ( )

This is the origine of StarWars!
This story is the best of sciense fiction I know. ( )

Obviously, an adaptation of the script. As such it does give details on a few more scenes that never made it into the movie, the biggest improvement though was Obi Wan's dislike for Jar Jar which I don't think came across in the movie. It was good to know that at least one of the characters hated him too! ( )

Better than the movie, it covers territory not in the movie including material that is before the movie picks up. ( )

This books is the novelization of a horrible movie. Has tarnished the star wars mythos. Only for the die hard fanboy|girl. ( )