This is mildly enjoyable but, as with the novelisations of the first two films, it's still a relatively superficial treatment. To give credit where it's due, Kahn makes more of an effort with the characterisation than Foster or Glut, I think, but I had to really grit my teeth at his horrible decision to spell out non-human speech phonetically. There are far too many sentences like this: "'Poot-wEEt beDOO gung ooble DEEp!' vocalized Artoo-Detoo." There is just no excuse.

Skip the novelisations, the films are enormously superior.