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Summary: SPOILERS (AS IF YOU HAVENT READ ANY YET)
Review: woah woah woah. You're all complaining about the death of chewi and the quick stages of Mara's Illness. Is that what you rated this book so low for? I mean with all the action taking place it would be impossible for one of the SW charictors not to die, i'm surprised just one died. I mean, we are not little kids anymore. Also, Mara's sickness was given to her, thats why it was so fast coming on. This SW book added a new feel to Star Wars books, a REAL feel, it answerd my questions like "What is beyond the star wars galaxy?" (not really but it was close) and it finally delt with real topics that we on earth would deal with, making the SW galaxy not all just sci-fi anymore, but have some truth in it. I read this book for hours and hours just to see what happend next, and im satisfied. I've seen a lot of wose sw books people, this rates high o my charts as #1 with Darksaber and Courtship of P. Leia.
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Summary: Overall Good
Review: It was decent, good. It was not the best I've ever read. But it was the best starting book I have ever read. It turned me on to the New Jedi Order series and I just finished Traitor recently. It was good of Salvatore to kill off a main character because not only does it show the main characters of Star Wars (Luke, Leia, Han, CHEWIE, and the next generation of Solos, etc.) are immortal (note R2 and 3PO are excluding because they are I think supposed to never be killed, they are somewhat like narrators). I do feel bad to lose Chewie and I felt like I had lost my best friend but I felt it was good for the SW Universe because it also shows how powerful and deadly the Vong will be.
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Summary: Good Book
Review: I think this book was a very good book to start out the series but i think it was weak compaired to the Dark tide Duology. But over R.A. Salvatore did a good job
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: Vector Prime Was an OK read that was simple and quick to read. While Salvatore is practically brilliant in some of his forgotten realms works, it lacks here due to the demands made from the "Star Wars Censors" from Lucasfilm. While I nderstand that they (Lucasfilm) want to keep the continuity and cohesiveness of "their" characters and galaxy. They are causing the authors of these books to demean their writing by trying to fit it into the overall master plan, whatever that may be. As stated before the story goes somewhere leaving out some descriptive points in areas leaving everything gray rather than being dark as I feel Salvatore meant it to be. If you are a Star Wars Fan and planning on following this new series over the next five years as planned by Bantam and lucasfilm then this is a must read. Any real Star Wars fan will appreciate it for what it is....more Star Wars created to satisfy their craving. And as I am sure that real fans know that a major character dies in this book, and also understands that good characters need to die to keep it real. That is after all what makes a lot of Shakespeare what it is. To address the death issue in another aspect, in an interview with Salvatore on an unrelated website, he stated that Lucasfilm wanted the character dead, not him, and he protested against having to be the one to do it. His only option, do the book their way or no way. And to address others who critiqued this book; The Solo Children are only going to be all american kids. The authors are americans, they only know how to be american teens. Everyone doesn't have to have a PHD in Sociology or foreign stdies to write science fiction, just a great sense of imagination. So keeping that in mind, if SOME people feel that these Star Wars books are beneath them, then maybe they should refer to materials more suited to their level of intelligence.
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Summary: Star Wars, or a demented fanfiction
Review: This is the first time Star Wars has resembled fanfiction. That is what it seems like. A strange, demented, odd fanfiction.
Salvatore does not understand Star Wars.
Rating:
Summary: Necessary but not enjoyable
Review: Although Star Wars fans will want to read this book as it is the kickoff of the New Jedi Order series, they shouldn't expect much out of it quality-wise. The writing is poor, the viewpoints change without warning and the dialogue is stiff and unbelievable. However, it contains the introduction to our heroes' new enemy, the Vong, and a wealth of information that is helpful upon reading later books.
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Summary: One of the Greatest Star Wars Books ever
Review: R.A. Salvatore is my favorite author and to see him writing in one of the most beloved franchises ever is already amazing in itself. Yet he goes out of his way to keep fans reading. Yes, some people may complain about the death of Chewbacca. However i prefer to see Chewie dit to save his best friends son than to watch him die in of old age. A character like Chewie needed to die a heroe and thats what salvatore did. He gave Chewbacca the perfect burial. Besides, i don't Chewie would have had any regrets. Overall, this is and amazing book which should be praised for its risk-taking.
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Summary: "That girl can fly."
Review: *I thought that I would start off with that phrase because it is the one most repeated throughout the book*I hadn't read any of the Star Wars novels before I read this book, and, I have to say, this was a pleasant start. I really love the Star Wars movies, and this particular novel (Vector Prime) is especially interesting to me because I always wanted to know what happened to Han, Leia, and Luke. Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin are just as lovable as the other three, and they give the impression that they will be more gifted in the Force than even Luke is. The book starts off with Leia, Mara Jade (Luke's wife), and Jaina were going on a diplomatic mission to one of two warring planets to meet with a rabble-rouser named Nom Anor who comes from an entirely different galaxy. Mara Jade has a REALLY bad disease; it breaks down the mollecular structure of a person and kills them usually within three days. Mara, however, has been fighting it using her Force abilities, and is just really, really weak and tired all the time. So anyhow, about Nom Anor. He's one of the race of self-mutilating warmongers from a different galaxy who want to conquer our heroes' galaxy. They enlist one of their troops on a scientific base in Belkadan, and he completely transforms the planet into something that can't support human life as we know it. At this time, Anakin and Han were on a planet trying to save it from a gravity well that was pulling down a moon into the atmosphere. They get off okay, but there's no way they could save Chewie... (sob, sob). The end is fast-paced, and there are a lot of fun and funny parts in between... I would definitely recommend this book to any die-hard Star Wars fan, or even just a casual fan of the movies.
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Summary: Salvatore steps out from the Underdark and into space.
Review: As a fan of Salvatores Forgotten Realms works I looked foward to reading this book for some time. Sadly I put off reading it when life got busy for about two years :) I picked it back up one night this month and couldn't put it down once I started to read it. I guess what put me off from reading it in the first place was that I heard that Chewbacca dies in this one. I finally over came my hesitation and I am glad I did. Salvatore is a great writer. His ablility to describe the chaos of a battle scene is the best in the business and he did a wonderful although limited job for this book. He wrote with a downgraded level probably to keep the page count down and to allow for other more important matters. I loved his style of writing. Someone wrote that Vector Prime was like watching a Cartoon. I am perfectly fine with that as it was a wonderful crafted one that made you wonder and not want to turn off the TV. Although I could spot some plot lines and the conclusions early it was still a good read. I would highly recommend it to any Salvatore fan and SW fan as well. -Chip Dobbs
President
Visionary Entertainment Studio Inc.
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Summary: Not a great stand alone, but a good start.
Review: RA Salvatore's Vector Prime would not make a good stand alone book in the Star War universe. It does, however, make a good beginning to a great series. Vector Prime tells of the crossing of the galaxy by an extragalatic species known as the Yuuzhan Vong. The Vong are militant and obsessed with life and purity of life; they have machines. The Yuuzhan Vong have come to the galaxy for one reason, and that is conquest. The Solo children are visiting Lando Calrissian, while at the Ex-Gal science station, a Yuuzhan Vong has infiltrated and is currently working to sabotage the station's systems, and allow his people to get through. He kills everyone at the station except Danni Quee, whom Jacen and Jaina go to rescue. The story is intriguing, and leaves a lot to be answered, allowing for eighteen more books to be written about it. The book, on its own, is nothing special, as the ending doesnt satisfy a tenth of the stories started, but it does set up the oppurtunity for a very interesting series. This must be taken into account when rating this book, because it is not meant to be judge soley on itself, but of what it allows for. I've read this book twice by now, and I liked it much more the second time, after reading several of the followup novels. It's a good effort and a good beginning.
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