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Summary: A Good Read
Review: A good book that sheds some light on Han Solo's life before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope. A good, cheap read
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Summary: Han Solo At Star's End is a Grand Adventure
Review: Han Solo at Star's End is a grand, rousing action adventure. I truly can say that it has influenced me greatly. The courageous Solo rescues his friend Chewbacca and the other prisoners of Star's End in one of the most exciting and enjoyable action sequences ever written. One of the best works of fiction I've ever read.
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Summary: "Inspiration is my specialty!"
Review: Han Solo at Stars' End was the third Star Wars novel ever published, after the original film novelization and Alan Dean Foster's lively Splinter of the Mind's Eye, and yet it remains today, nearly a quarter of a century later, one of the best pieces of Star Wars literature ever published. This book is the first of a trilogy that has since come to be known as the Han Solo Adventures (not to be confused with A.C. Crispin's Han Solo Trilogy), which tell of some of Han Solo's greatest adventures in the years before A New Hope. In these books, Brian Daley has really captured the essence and character of Han, Chewie, and the Falcon as they were at the start of the first film.The plot of this book is fairly simple and straightforward. After a run-in with the Corporate Sector Authority (basically the equivalent of the Empire in this sector of space), the Millennium Falcon needs some repairs, so Han heads to an "outlaw tech" base to get her fixed up. When he arrives, he finds out that Doc, the head of the techs, has gone missing, and that the price of the Falcon's repairs will be to find and rescue him. Along the way, Chewbacca too is captured, making the whole affair personal. Brian Daley has really written an action-packed whopper of a Star Wars book here. There are no subplots to bog down the pace of the book, no Luke and Leia to follow around on their own quests. This is pure Han Solo adventure start to finish. There are original and inspired firefights, sometimes in zero-G, and we get to see why Han has his reputation as an excellent pilot and a quick-draw marksman to be feared. There's a dogfight in here that puts to shame most of what Mike Stackpole has written, some unprecedented maneuvers with the Falcon, buildings getting blown off the face of planets (literally!), and several very interesting characters are introduced, including a fellow named Rekkon who I'd like to see more of someday. Han and Chewie are always perfectly in character as well, and there is a droid duo introduced here that is even more unlikely, and - dare I say it? - at times even more amusing than Artoo and Threepio. Brian Daley, in this and his other books has I believe done more for the Star Wars Universe than any other author since. In this volume he introduced the Z-95 Headhunter, dinkos, the Fondor shipyards, several of Han's future friends, enemies, and companions, the Corporate Sector, and many themes and sequences that future Star Wars authors will attempt to emulate with varying degrees of success. In Han Solo at Stars' End, Brian Daley has created a masterpiece. Short but concise and relevant, this is one of the most fun, action-packed, and ultimately most satisfying Star Wars novels that I have read in a long time.
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Summary: The Han Solo You Never Knew!
Review: I rated this book an '8' because of the wonderful job the author did in fleshing out the characters of Han Solo and Chewbacca. Back in 1979 (when this story was first published), before the days of 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi', there was only Star Wars. And with only this movie to go on, the author successfully extrapolated characters and events as they might have happened. The story revolves around the exploits of our heroes as they take on one of the endless petty tyrants of the Empire, organized under the heading of 'The Sector Authority'. As Lone Wolf McSolo attempts to help an old flame find her missing father (who has been mysteriously abducted, presumably by the Sector Authority), the stakes are quickly raised as Chewbacca is subsequently taken. The ride is a roller coaster (and you'll see this is literally true if you read the book) as Solo tracks down and rescues his missing persons (and aliens). An enjoyable read and nice setup for the rest of Brian Daley's Han Solo Adventures
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Summary: Never come between a man and his wookie
Review: In an effort to repair and upgrade his ailing ship, not to mention acquire the doctored ID he would, without a doubt need, (to carry his smuggling operations forward unnoticed in the Authority controlled sector)Han agrees to take on an assignment that will separate him from his hairy friend for the first time since they joined forces. Setting out to rescue Doc, leader of the outlaw techs, proves to be quite the task. Imprisoned for leading a band of highly trained individuals who repair and alter space vessels without questioning the legalities involved, Doc finds himself without hope for the first time in his life. Missing both a father, and a leader, his daughter finds herself looking to Han for help. Little does Han know, that in attempting the rescue, his Wookie friend is doomed to suffer the same fate. From here, the book takes readers on an adventure upon which Han?s most important life lesson comes to fruition. If he ever hopes to see his friend next to him in the old smuggler's home in the distant days ahead, he must cooperate with those he cannot trust. In short, Han must forsake his last name, and work together as part of a team of mutual interests. The book, part one of a three part trilogy, was captivating, and did much to expand upon the characters we would later come to know in Star Wars: A New Hope. The author nails Solo's abrasive personality to a tee. Han is nonchalant, yet calculating. Inventive, yet knowing his limits and pushing beyond them with a tilted grin plastered across his face. Classic Han Solo if I say so myself. A worthy Star Wars read indeed. "alankelly"
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Summary: It's cool but Han gets a little weird with a droid though
Review: It's a good book could be a little better but it's still good. I also have the guide to to weapons and technology so I understood all the Disruptor stuff. This is a book for real star wars fans though you have to under stand allot.
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Summary: Sci fi 1979 style.
Review: Many genre's suffer from the downgrading of their literature from the height of Top Sellerdom to the racks of Young Adult fiction. Jules Verne, HG Wells, and now the Star Wars and Star Trek novels are falling into this abyss. This and the other Star Wars add-on novels were fine when first printed. But are now the type of books that young adult readers even find boring. Very light reading for the Star Wars fan.
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Summary: An outstanding plot!!!
Review: The plot kept getting better.When I started reading it seemed the book would never end then the plot took a turn.From that point on I was hooked.Then it got better.I loved the part where the robot kicked the other well trained robots b**t(what ever its name was).
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Summary: Han Chewy and bollux in corporate sector story 2
Review: This is a combined review of The paper back book and the comic from Dark horse, Classic star wars - Han Solo at stars end - Volume 5. This comic is based on the stand alone novelette written by the late Brian Daley. For those who had read AC Crispens Han Solo Trilogy (my favorite of the entire EU), Crispen left time in his story to accommodate Daley's stories about Han and Chewy taking a trip to the corporate sector. Virtually nothing is known about the corp sector except what Daley told us in his 3 novels about his favorite character, Han. One of those 3 stories is HS at SE. This comic has good inking and binding but the pencil and artwork is of comic strip quality. I give the story a 5, inking a 3 and pencils a 2, then I round up because the stars are Han and chewy for 4 stars
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Summary: Han and Chewy adventures in the Corporate Sector
Review: This is a review of Classic star wars - Han Solo at stars end - Volume 5. This comic is based on the stand alone novelette written by the late Brian Daley. For those who had read AC Crispens Han Solo Trilogy (my favorite of the entire EU), Crispen left time in his story to accommodate Daley's stories about Han and Chewy taking a trip to the corporate sector. Virtually nothing is known about the corp sector except what Daley told us in his 3 novels about his favorite character, Han. One of those 3 stories is HS at SE. This comic has good inking and binding but the pencil and artwork is of comic strip quality. I give the story a 5, inking a 3 and pencils a 2, then I round up because the stars are Han and chewy for 4 stars.
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