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There was also a sucky novelization of New Hope, of course—comparing the two was... informative. My favorite moment was reading the dust-jacket copy from Jedi, though. Since it wasn't actually in the novel, they felt they had to observe ad-copy conventions, which produced the following (approximate) sentence: "As Luke walked up to the gate of Jabba's castle, he seemed alone, but knew that The Force™ would be a powerful ally." Unfortunately, that was the best part of the novel. (Though the Babelfish-quality French translation of it that I acquired later in life has its own peculiar comic value, as well.)