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Summary: Excellent source and refrerence material
Review: This books gives you a wonderful and in depth look at the beginning of the great show. Lucy Lawless' comments are the highlight. Some are quite blunt, and hopefully not edited much. Also of interest is the view of the behind the scenes production work, and the enthuansim exhibited by all these artists. An essential book for the fan.
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Summary: I Love This Book!
Review: This is a great behind the scenes look at one of television's most clever shows. If you are a Xena fan, this is a MUST have. Beyond that it is an excellent behind the scenes look at ANY television series because it covers all areas of production - script revisions, editing, special effects, casting of both main and extra characters, stunts, and more. Plus you get the usual cast bios and epsiode summaries. The only problem (as most reviewers note) is that the episode guide only covers the first two seasons. We are all anxiously awaiting that second edition. Also enjoyable is the ability for the creators of Xena to poke fun at their chronological inconsistencies. You will find an amusing time line at the end of the book. Buy it =)
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Summary: I Love This Book!
Review: This is a great behind the scenes look at one of television's most clever shows. If you are a Xena fan, this is a MUST have. Beyond that it is an excellent behind the scenes look at ANY television series because it covers all areas of production - script revisions, editing, special effects, casting of both main and extra characters, stunts, and more. Plus you get the usual cast bios and epsiode summaries. The only problem (as most reviewers note) is that the episode guide only covers the first two seasons. We are all anxiously awaiting that second edition. Also enjoyable is the ability for the creators of Xena to poke fun at their chronological inconsistencies. You will find an amusing time line at the end of the book. Buy it =)
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Summary: Needs updating but otherwise -great!
Review: This is a really good book for Xena fans. The best thing about it is it has lots and lots of pictures - and many of them are in colour. There's also some good Hercules info. The book is full of info for any die-hard Xena fans -about the stunts/costumes/producers etc. There are also good summaries of the first two series but the problem is that it desperately needs updating. I don't know if they plan on extending this book so it covers the recent series' but if so it would be worth waiting for. This book is better than the Hercules one that accompanies it if only because it's not full of spelling mistakes! The Xena timeline at the end is quite amusing aswell.
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Summary: Needs updating but otherwise -great!
Review: This is a really good book for Xena fans. The best thing about it is it has lots and lots of pictures - and many of them are in colour. There's also some good Hercules info. The book is full of info for any die-hard Xena fans -about the stunts/costumes/producers etc. There are also good summaries of the first two series but the problem is that it desperately needs updating. I don't know if they plan on extending this book so it covers the recent series' but if so it would be worth waiting for. This book is better than the Hercules one that accompanies it if only because it's not full of spelling mistakes! The Xena timeline at the end is quite amusing aswell.
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Summary: A good book, but needs an update
Review: This is a very informative book. It talks about the making of the show and really made me want to push into the world of amature movie-making. It tells you whayt to look for in tyhe speacil effects department, which is interestying. From Lucy's takes you know what was happening during filming. Unfortunately it only runs through season 2. It wasa also missing character biographies which I had hoped for. There are only about 15 color pics and 100's of black and white. All in all it's good but not perfect.
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Summary: VERY OINFORMATIVE
Review: THIS VERY INFORMATIVE BOOK IS MY BIBLE!! IT TELLS YOU JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ABOUT THE CHARACTERS, EPISODES, ACTORS, AND EVEN ABOUT TECHNICAL STUFF LIKE STUNTS, EDITING, SOUND AND BY THE GODS, EVEN LIGHTING!?! ONLY ONE DISADVANTAGE OF THIS BOOK IS THE FACT THAT IT'S A LITTLE OUTDATED IT COVERS THE FIRST TWO SEASONS WITH IN DEPTH DETAIL, INTERESTING FACTS AND LUCY'S TAKE ON EVERY EPISODE! MY SUGGETION TO THE AUTHOR IS TO RELEASE A VOLUME 2 BECAUSE I WAS VERY PLEASED WITH THE WAY HE COVERED THE FIRST 50 EPISODES!BEST XENA BOOK AVAIL.!!
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Summary: A must-have for sword-broad fans!
Review: What can I say? If you love Xena, you gotta have this!
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Summary: A must-have for sword-broad fans!
Review: What can I say? If you love Xena, you gotta have this!
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Summary: Lots of pictures
Review: What I like in a book is pictures, and this book has lots of them. This is a great book if you want to learn some stuff that you did not know before about the show. Also, this book has comments from the stars, and behind the scenes information. That is a plus. I have also met the author and he is a huge fan of the show, so he has an idea of what Xena fans want to know about the show.
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