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Summary: a great book
Review: a great exciting stor
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Summary: read my reveiw!
Review: This book is a true page turner.evry little bit of action is so thoroughly written and described, that only one with an attention span so short that he can't sit through Master Lock's infamous 1-second commercial can't countinue reading.
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Summary: Action packed, exciting, detailed, a great over all book
Review: An excellent combonation of Star Wars, action, and even a little love. Realistic ddescriptions of the dogfights and the blaster combat. Excatly how a military Star Wars novel should be. An excellent piece of work.
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Summary: In the tradition of Star Wars Dogfights
Review: This book and the other three that I have read pointed out a lot of things I missed in the movies for example I completed didn't notice the A-wing that entered the seconded Death Star's exhaust port until I read that Tycho flew throught the Death Star to keep several Tie fighters and Tie Intercepters off of Wedge's and Lando's bask so they could destroy the Death Star. And the detail the Stackpole put in to the dogfights is the reason that I went out and bought Star Wars Rouge Sqaudren for Nintendo64. For those of you who watch Return of the Jedi just to see the Dogfights this is definetly the series of books for you.
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Summary: Stackpole: A Jedi Master!
Review: I got into Star Wars about a month ago, and this is the first book I picked off the shelf. The book rules! It's better than I thought it would be. Not having Luke, Han, or Leia in there made me worry, but it was still awesome. The X-wing dogfights are written well enough to make you think you're in the cockpit. It has a cool blaster battle also.
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Summary: Explain, please...
Review: It is customary in science fiction writing that when you blatantly defy the laws of physics as we know them, you at least try to explain what neat futuristic advance has made it possible. While I know this has not generally been the case in the Star Wars series (i.e., nothing gets explained, we just have to live with it) I found it especially irritating in this book. Every combat scene had me shaking my head...If I ever have to read "Corran rolled his X-wing onto its starboard S-foil" again I'm going to be sick. I also found it unsettling that two F-14s could easily destroy the entire Rogue Squadron from 100 miles away, because the maximum range of a proton torpedo is 20 kilometers (or maybe it was forty, either way, substantially shorter than a Phoenix or even an AMRAAM missile). At least I know that if the Republic ever attacks earth, we'll be safe. As far the characters, I started out mildly surprised that they were a little deeper than most in the Star Wars series. Wedge was surprisingly uninteresting, though. Unfortunately the character development was not enough to keep me interested and I doubt I'll be reading any more in this series.
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Summary: A high action sci-fi
Review: This book continues the Star Wars tradition of drama on action. I enjoyed it's perspective on the life of a pilot after R.O.T.J. It really puts you in the cockpit of a T-65 X-Wing fighter.
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Summary: a gripping and enjoyable Star Wars Epic
Review: Being one of the first (but definatly not the last) Star Wars book that I have ever read, I was hoping for this book to be as good, if not better than the movies, an boy, did I get my wish. In this book, the author (Michael A. Stackpole) does an excelent job of including the read in the action. At times it almost feels as if your in the cockpit with the pilot in the book. I have promptly read all but the last two books, one of which has yet to be published, and I havent been disappointed one bit. I would recommend this series of books to anyone who likes either the Star Wars movies, or like to read sci-fi / fantasy books.
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Summary: not bad (not too good either). this covers the first 4 books
Review: i'm too lazy to type separate reviews of the first 4 books, so i'm clumping it into this one review ;)dang series is better watched than read. definitely. unless the reader is an avid dogfight flight-sim fanatic...reader is likely to get lost in the action scenes. i preferred Jack McKinney's dogfight narratives (Robotech). sometimes, it's better to narrate actions in wholesale, rather than detail each and every kill of each and every pilot. the series should've been entitled Rogue Squadron series, not X-wing series! it's all about Rogue Squadron (revolving around the lives of a select few), not x-wings. anyway...since i play games like X-wing and Tie Fighter...that's what allowed me to keep up with the dogfights (most of the time anyway). besides, it sort of portrays Wedge as a fledgling in politics. authoring. y'know it's really irritating the way Mike Stackpole ordered his chapters. it's not a bad thing, really, but it just gets my goat --> he will end the chapter with a hook (he's very adept at that)...and begin the next chapter on other characters, and other plot developments, leaving me to skip chapter 16 and 17, coz i wanna know what happened right after chapter 15, and then i have to go back to 16, skip 17 and 18, and go back to 17 and reread 18 (in book 1, where Corran crashes his speeder bike through the hideout of Wedge & gang...and neither party recognizes the other...and they all get messed up some more...author stretched the split-second action inbetween 3 chapters!) y'know what i mean? it gets anti-climactic at times. there's a bunch of dry parts -- where Stackpole's writing ability sort of degenerates into high-school-ish writing: he will simply tell you what's happening. 'show, don't tell'. he won't describe the scene, he will simply tell. Corran was tired. Mirax was tired. Wedge was agitated. Tycho was blah blah. dialogue...no way this series will ever ever make it to movies. george lucas will have to rewrite almost 75% of the dialogue here. that's what separates these novels from the novelization of the Star Wars trilogy. dialogue in X-wing was flat, uninspired and too cumbersome. characters spoke to each other in paragraphs! even Corran and Mirax getting together was rather...clinical. quite dispassionate. however, the scene where Corran meets Booster is Oscar quality! :] depth of characters. ok...what's the beef of introducing so many characters? only Corran, Mirax, Wedge, and Tycho had character. the rest were confetti. i had the hardest time keeping names straight in book 1. traitorship -- ok...it was kinda obvious that it wasn't Tycho...but Stackpole sort of tries too hard to make it look like Tycho is a traitor, but still letting the reader know that he isn't. sort of like forcing the issue. instead, Stackpole could have dropped a whole lot of clues to the real traitor. he concentrated too much on framing an obviously innocent Tycho. there were no other clues. i was rather put off by finding out Erisi was the traitor. i sort of thought it would be Ooryl (he eats little, doesn't sleep, doesn't breath...the perfect spy). there's this part i just don't understand -- where Corran saw Tycho meeting Kirtan Loor. Stackpole did not say the man just looked like Kirtan Loor. Stackpole said it WAS Kirtan Loor. (of course, Stackpole was narrating from Corran's point of view...but it would have been better had he narrated from an omniscient view...). that little incident left no doubt that it was Loor. and then Stackpole weasels out by claiming it's another alien who just looks like Loor. why Stackpole had to keep everyone together after the mass-resignation of Rogue Squadron...i dunno. that provided the perfect opportunity for him to focus on the important individuals and not clunk the scene with useless members. Nawara and Rhysati were cute, but not essential. Asyr and Gavin were similarly useless. Bror Jace was a deus ex machina in book 4. Riv Shiel the wolfman was completely ignored. Ooryl was given better attention...but still quite useless. only Inyri Forge served an important role to the entire plot. Lusankya. i like the concept of the inverted prison, which really is a star destroyer. the Krytos virus was interesting...specially when intertwined with politics of galaxy war. though i have to admit, i got lost in the politics behind X-wing series (not that it's too complicated, but i just didn't bother to keep up with the contrived twists in the politics plot). all in all, this series is for those who would watch STAR WARS movies over and over again for the trench runs. this series is full of it (hotdogging, i mean). however, for those who are looking for something else, like the magic of George Lucas and original trilogy...search elsewhere (though i enjoyed the series personally)
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Summary: Very good book
Review: This was a good action/drama book, because I really liked the dogfight scenes, and I also liked the characters. However, if you really like books about the original Star Wars characters, I would not recommend it to you because the main characters are basically Wedge, Tycho Chelcu, and Imperial intel-guy Kirtan Loor, not Luke, Han, and Leia.
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