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Summary: MADE NO SENSE!! Boring, Too-Perfect Hero, Unbelievable.
Review: If you want this book to make the slightest bit of sense, read the "Jedi Academy Trilogy" by Kevin Anderson FIRST. I stopped in the middle of "I, Jedi" because the storyline confused me. Once I read Mr Anderson's three books, this was easier to follow. I think the only reason it was written in First Person is copyright issues. To write in Third Person would be to risk plagiarizing the original story.Anyway, this particular story is about a Rogue Squadron pilot named Corran Horn, who happens to be heir to strong familial ties to Jedi Knights. When his wife disappears, he decides to search for her (duh). However, he must first go to the Jedi Academy on Yavin 4 to work on his Jedi skills. This is supposed to help him in his search. WHAT?!?!? This character was a Security Officer at CorSec. He knows how to investigate and seems to be a good detective. Yet, he decides to spend weeks at Yavin 4 instead of looking for his wife. Doesn't exactly qualify him for Husband-Of-The-Year, does it? The biggest problem I had with this book is that it was a spin-off of the above trilogy. Corran Horn was not even mentioned in the original series. A lot of his activities were behind-the-scenes, or totally independent of the background story. In fact, while some of the major plotpoints from the trilogy were going on, Corran is away from the Academy doing something completely different. Yet, he turns out to be one of the strongest Jedi students present. Later, he is one of the FIRST to become a Master. WHAT?!?!? I would only recommend this book if someone HAS read the Academy Trilogy, likes first-person stories, and like over-the-top heroes. Personally, it is one of the more boring Star Wasrs books I've read (right next to "Rogue Planet").
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Summary: A Fine Adventure
Review: Michael Stackpole's "I, Jedi" is one of his finest achievements. Set in the Star Wars universe, the book is narrated in first person by the enigmatic pilot, Corran Horn, the lead protagonist in his earlier series of Star Wars novels, "x-wing." Apart from giving the universe a fresh perspective, the first person narration provides a welcome return to the tale of Corran Horn. For those that have read the "x-wing" series, I,Jedi is set three years after the final book. While certainly of interest to fans who have read these previous novels, "I,Jedi" stands alone as a rollicking good read!Undoubtedly many fans were disappointed when the "x-wing" series ended that Corran Horn never fully realised his jedi heritage. The book details Corran Horn's development of his latent abilities. Without going too far into the plot, suffice to state that the development of these abilities are a hoot! Though the novel does have a few inaccuracies such as Corran Horn's impossiblly fast uptake on the ways of the force (he transforms into an ace pilot to a skilled jedi in less than a year), "I,Jedi" is a fantastic addition to the canon of Star Wars inspired literature and an entertaining adventure!
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: This should have been written as two books, but I guess they decided you can't do a series of less than three. I can tell this seems to be closely tied in with the Jedi Academy Trilogy (or at least presume, I haven't read that yet), but the connection is mostly in the middle. It starts and ends with the story about his wife, but there's a big gapping hole where they focus on Exar Kun, and the author seems to loose sight of his main goal (he should have had him leave Yavin before they final showdown with Kun, to keep focus).
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Summary: A great idea, but c'mon!
Review: I gave this book such a low review based on three issues. First, the author lacked creativity when he followed the plot for the Jedi Search trilogy. The plot he came up with, X-wing pilot whose wife is captured, goes to the Jedi Acadamy to develop latent Jedi skills so he can fight her kidnappers, was great. Would have been wonderful, but he was stuck following the plot for another trilogy which had nothing to do with the plot he was telling, not to mention introducing a character that was never mentioned in the original trilogy, and placing him in a central position.. Second, he presents Skywalker as an idiot. Now, Skywalker was no Han Solo, and had, at times, an unreasonable hope in "the good will always win", he was never as weak minded, or as flaky, as portrayed here. Third, in a complete shift from every other Star Wars novel, he writes this one in first person. I would not consider this such a problem as a fan of first person, but he damages his story telling by doing this. By such a departure from the mainstream, he sets himself so far away from the rest of the series that one can almost consider it a seperate piece of work, not even related to the rest. I am pleased to see a book not solely set around "established" characters, but please, give us something to work with.
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Summary: Amazing!
Review: Michael Stackpole perfectly meshes the science fiction and fantasy aspects of the Star Wars universe with romance and mystery. His first person perspective tale of Corran Horn's quest to find his wife is incredible, and easily one of the best books I have ever read.
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Summary: Corran Horn the only reasion i started reading SW books
Review: This book is the only reasion i started reading the SW series Corran Horn is a great character in all aspects exciting easy to relate to and all around a good character to read about the book which is about him has all the clasic SW characters and some really good knew ones i enjoyed this book so much i went back and read the X-Wing series witch happens before this and the children of the jedi witch takes place during the same time perioud and this book fits in perfactly with both series the only problem is stackpole is the only author that writes about corran horn over all this has been my favorite SW book even better than the new jedi order series
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