From the Bookshelf: The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005

After quite a while thinking about it, I asked for the “compact edition” of the “Star Wars Archives” book retelling the story of the making of the three oldest movies in the franchise for a Christmas present. I then took six months getting around to mentioning that here, but one other thing did get in the way too. As I picked my way through the Archives (reading it with just a little awkwardness after discovering part of the endpapers is extended and folded around to “make the closed volume more solid” or something), I did happen on a notice of a brief publisher sale on its follow-up, which told the story of the making of the George Lucas trilogy for which I couldn’t tell myself “oh, I’ve already got J.W. Rinzler’s making-of books; I don’t need another expensive, hard-to-handle tome.” Deciding not to wait on the off chance of another “compact edition,” I ordered the “1999-2005” Archives.
( Coffee table book or coffee table? )