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Summary: A STAR WARS NOVEL AT ITS BEST!!!
Review: Those of you who think that the STAR WARS novels have destroyed the brilliance of the movies you are dead right but when it comes to this trilogy "THE BOUNTY HUNTER WARS" you fall in love with the books and the movies once again. K. W. Jeter is the most talented author ever, every word he writes is interesting, Jeter is God. This book, book one, "THE MANDALORIAN ARMOR" is about STAR WARS' favourite bounty hunter Boba Fett and is set during "RETURN OF THE JEDI" WHAT! you say "I thought he was dead!" Boba Fett can cheat death on a Monday morning if he wanted to so he blows up the salacc and hurts himself in the process. After regaining his superhuman strength he finds himself in a deadly game, Survival of the Fittest against household bounty hunter names like Bossk and The Bounty Hunters Guild. Ofcoarse this game has been set up by the cunning Prince Xizor. The conclusion of the book is gripping yet you laugh to yourself and say somebodys gonna be mighty angry in book two.
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Summary: Very Good Indeed
Review: I like the way K.W. Jeter sets up his books - they are very creative. I have almost finished Slave Ship, and I am anxious to get a hold of Hard Merchandise (#3). Very good - This book is for you if you are a fan of Boba Fett!
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Summary: Pretty Good, But Room For Improvement
Review: I reay liked the book, I coudn't put it down. It keeps you in suspense and the plot is easy to understand but still thick. Also, it sets you up so you have to read the next book. But, the author has limited vocabulary. They used 'barve' way too much.
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Summary: hmm, seams there's a lot of people who dont get out much
Review: some of the reviews here seem to be written by people who dont get out much and are too engrosed in star wars and it's characters. PEOPLE they're made up, not real, dont get sooooo attached to them. i myself are a big fan of star wars, but the books themselves are on a different level to th movies, they are waaaay too different to draw comparisons. this would have to be one of the better, if not best SW series written. purely and simply because it doesn't deal with the mainstream characters, like Han and Luke. it adds a kind of freshness to the collection of tiresome stories about the force and luke. it is also good because it is a darker tale, the current crop of SW novels are too happy and cheerful, with everything working out nice. this series shows the underside of the fictional galaxy (the more interesting side.sure the technique was slightly confusing , at first, but so was the varying styles used in the black fleet crisis trilogy. this is a strong addition the the ongoing saga of SW.
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Summary: BAD BAD BAD--Painful to read
Review: This is the first Star Wars novel that I had to stop reading because it was too painful. The characters are WAY out of context. Vader and Palpatine bickering with Xizor? Please. Speaking of that conversation, it took 5 pages to describe what could be done in one paragraph. It took me 2 days to trudge through those pages. Don't get me started on the word BARVE. Stay away from this book.
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Summary: Has the author ever seen the trilogy?
Review: The author of this book believes, among other things, that you can fire a blaster by pressing your thumb on a "Trigger Stud" This book was full of inconsistancies with the rest of the Star Wars Universe and is recommended you dont waste your time with it.
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Summary: Send it back to the editors.
Review: The Mandalorian Armor is an unfortunate example of the flaws in the publishing industry. The book appears to be simply the first third of an unedited manuscript. I suppose we'll see the other two thirds in the next two books of the planned trilogy. Others have detailed some of its flaws dealing with the Star Wars universe, but as I know little of that, I'll leave it at that. The flaws that I noticed were in plot and basic characterization, both of which were almost entirely lacking. The 'flashback' device, beginning at the end rather than at the beginning, is a good way of building tension, normally. The trouble here was that the flashbacks didn't actually connect with each other or the "present", and so any tension gradually leaked away over the course of the novel. The subplots were either left entirely unresolved (Neelah) or were resolved summarily and unsatisfactorily (the Bounty Hunters' Guild). I finished the book annoyed and unfulfilled. Even to my uneducated eyes, having not read more than one or two other Star Wars books, the character of Boba Fett was portrayed inconsistently with the movies and even within this book. For a guy who gets a sore throat after four sentences, he sure does talk a lot -- and for a guy who can woo the whole Bounty Hunters' Guild with his silver tongue, he sure is dull. It simply made no sense. In the brief glimpses we have had of Boba Fett in the movies, we can glean more about his character and motivations than we can from this book (in which he is, after all, the central character). Why did I finish it? Hope springeth eternal. Even so, I won't be buying the next books in the series unless something drastic (say, the author) changes.
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Summary: Mis-Titled and Unsatisfying
Review: If you are hoping to find out about Boba Fett and the Mandalorian Armor, this is not the book to read. If you are hoping to expand your knowledge of the SW universe through a book that meshes with the other published works, this is not the book to read. If you are hoping for a good ending and a set of interesting resolutions to the plots contained within the book, forget it. I've loved the other SW books and purchased this one in anticipation of finding out more about "The Bounty Hunter Wars", "The Mandalorian Armor" and Boba Fett. While this book had some moments that kept things going, by the time I got to the last third, the sloppiness increased. I found myself growing less interested and more annoyed as plotline after plotline was resolved in almost a backhanded fashion. I am not a rabid reader of SW books, though I have read many, and I was only peripherally aware of the many violations to previous canon laid out by other reviewers. Nevertheless, I found myself with no real interest in the characters as they were developed (apart, perhaps from Kudar Mubat - but that was left unresolved as well) and a sense of shock at the abruptness with which several of the sub-stories were terminated. My advice is to skip this one and move on.
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Summary: A great example of pure Star Wars!
Review: This book gives the first look into the mysterious past of the most notorious bounty hunter in the galaxy, Boba Fett. It is very vivid and colorful. It is filled with action peaking at the battle at the Shell Hutts' palace. K.W. Jeter has outdone himself with this book. It is the first of a three part series. This is a must read for any Star Wars fan.
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Summary: A great book, didn't interfere with the movies
Review: The Mandalorian Armor was a great book which I really enjoyed. It follows the bounty hunter who captured Han Solo, Boba Fett, and what happens to him after Return of the Jedi, and what had happened to him before then. He is a very interesting character, the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy, and one stripped of all emotions that would interefer with his job. The book is also good, because it doesn't interfer with any ideas you might have had about the movie's characters, because Boba Fett was not really a mian character. It is the first book in a trilogy, I think, and so not everything rapps up in the end. I really enjoyed it!
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