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Summary: This book is awesome
Review: I got this book around the time it came out, and 3 years later it is still the first book I go to for Star Wars look ups. Its biggest problem is that it is dated and cuts off right after Vector Prime, so it is not much help for looking up things in the New Jedi Order. That being said, it is still very valid and apart from the NJO and various newer comic book series, it covers pretty much everything. This book is a must for any serious Star Wars reader, and I highly recommend it as such. I would like to see a new edition with up-to-date material released after Episode III comes out.
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Summary: THE book for Warsies everywhere
Review: I love it. I helps me understand the other Star Wars books MUCH better. I get more insight into the Ship's, wepons, and people of the Star Wars Universe. The discriptions of People and Places are vivid and colorfull. I would reccomend it to any hard-core Star Wars fan.
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Summary: This book is almost like a Star Wars encyclopedia
Review: I loved this book. I am a 12 year old Star Wars fan. I don't read the kiddie books, I read the adult novels. This book has told me every thing I want to know and more. I advise people who buy this book not to try to read the whole thing, it is better to use it like an encyclopedia
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Summary: A very thorough and exciting guide to Star Wars
Review: I think this is a great book for anybody who wants to know some more about the Star Wars universe. Now I'm only 12 years old, and this book helped me greatly in learning about this incredible universe.It's very detailed in the descriptions (It helps you know what something looks like if there's no illustration). I only give this a '7' because it's pretty old. It doesn't have information from the newer Star Wars novels. But, I still think this is a book that should be considered for someone who wants to be able to discuss Star Wars comfortably. E-mail me if you have a question about Star Wars that you want to know, or that wasn't answered in this book
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Summary: More outdated then an 8-track
Review: If the author writes another guide that has up-to-date with entries on all of the new characters and places et cetera that had come out since '94, maybe I'll buy it
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Summary: This third edition is truly a rip-off!
Review: OK, what have we got here? To cover six years worth of Star Wars continuity since the last edition of the Guide, we get around 100 pages of new materiel. Except it isn't new. The author made a point to include materiel fom The Phantom Menace and Vector Prime, but other than that it seems nothing released in the last 2-3 years made it in here! No material from Allston's X-wing books, no Union, no prequel-era stuff except for the movie itself. While there is a bit about Kyle Katarn from the Dark Forces game, nothing about his role in the sequel, Jedi KNight, which came out about four years ago. There are virtually no new pictures, most of them are merely lifted from the Essential Guides.But perhaps the biggest problem is in the organization. Gone are the categorical indeces of aliens, droids, ships, planets, creatures, etc... which were so helpful at the beginning of Edition 2, gone is even a rudimentary timeline, absent is the galactic map which has been gracing most of the more recent Star Wars fiction. Also gone is the neat seperation in the earlier edition between "canon" materiel -- that established in the movies and their novelizations -- and just about everything else. For about twice the price of this book you can get the Star Wars Encyclopedia, which has more materiel, many, many more color photos and illustrations, and better organization of materiel. I recommend that you do. This book is a waste of time and money. It was three years outdated when it came out, overpriced at that.
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Summary: Excellent reference to the Star Wars Universe
Review: The Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy is a handy reference for any fan of the books and movies. Because it was published in the year 2000, it came after a wave of new books and a new movie, thus making it up to date up until that time.
While not as complete as the Star Wars Encyclopedia, it has information that SWE did not cover. However, it does not contain the wealth of information that SWE has, and the illistrations are black and white, whereas the Encyclopeida's are color.
The Guide covers new information in the Han Solo Trilogy, the X-Wing series, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, the New Jedi Order (Just Vector Prime) and several other novels.
So, this is just right if you are a fan that likes up to date information.
However,it is already out of date and does not contain everything that is new. There is nothing about the second and third parts of the X-Wing series, nothing beyond Vector Prime and several other books that are already out. Hopefully there'll be a new editon in the near future.
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Summary: Not enough new Info
Review: This book although useful in its own right as a reference tool for a star wars fan is useless to the owner of an earlier revision. This book did not include very many things and is poorly organized. The content it does have is good and can be very helpful, but it is lacking loads of information on recent books and comics.
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Summary: A pretty good book
Review: This book gives really good information on what books were written before it was. However, the more recent books(i.e. the Thrawn trilogy) are not covered in this book.
Rating:
Summary: A pretty good book
Review: This book gives really good information on what books were written before it was. However, the more recent books, the Thrawn trilogy, are not covered in this book.
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