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Summary: I'm done!
Review: These books are suppose to be fun. If I want tradgedy I'll watch CNN. Good guys blasting bad is what it's all about. Hoppy, Roy, Gene, Flash, Buck only got winged and were back next Saturday to do it all again. This is suppose to be escapism. Why do you have to grow up? You lost, potentially, the best character possibility since Luke. Hope for you sake Ben doesn't trip over a lightsabre. But, I'm done.
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Summary: Not perfect, but certainly not hideous!
Review: Okay, yes, I'll admit that killing off you-know-who wasn't a very nice thing to do, but I really liked the style in which this book was written. I literally couldn't put it down. I don't think that this particular book's "death" was as bad as Chewie's, but then again, we've known and loved Chewie since we first saw Star Wars, right? overall, I think this book was well-written and a must have, even if the story line was a little bit tragic.
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Summary: Hardcover ...
Review: One of the things I have liked about Star Wars novels was the importance placed on continuity between them and the movies. The collaboration between authors, publishers, and Lucas, has resulted in something rather unique in modern literature. For fans like me who read the books, it's been fun reading. Because I was relatively late in getting into Star Wars novels I don't know if DelRey pulled the same stunt with the X-Wing series that they've now done twice with the New Jedi Order series with Balance Point and Star By Star. That is, release pricey hardcover installments in the middle of a serial line of stories, most which were released as paperbacks. DelRey delayed the softcover release of Balance Point by six months. That was bad enough. Star by Star was published as a hardcover in October, 2001. According to their website, the paperback version won't be released until October, 2002! They apparently are counting on the fanatically addicted, those who have some illusion of future collectible value, or some with more money than brains, to guarantee sales revenue. Well, I won't be suckered and neither should you. Like Balance Point, I read Star By Star at a library or one of the big book stores, keeping track of the page I left off in each visit. When the paperback comes out, I won't have need to buy and they'll have lost a sale. Star By Star is one of the better books in the New Jedi Order series, desite the events that some fans found so objectionable. But, I will not spend $...+ for a Star Wars book.
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Summary: Mom, put the kids to bed....
Review: War is ugly and mean- why else would it be a war? First of all Star Wars isn't specifically designed for kids! In fact thats why Episode one was so awfull.
Star by Star, I must admitt was hard to get through because of the death, but it got my blood pumping again- Series get stale when the main characters become immortal. If only Denning and Zahn could combine their talents!
Anyway, this is a great read with some evil twists, and mom, take the kids to see Jar Jar, but dont read them Star by Star.
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Summary: What happened to the good guys.
Review: I read once that George Lucas toyed with the fact of killing Luke in Return of the Jedi, but discarded the idea because he hated it when the major good guys diead. Here we are in Star by Star stunned but acceptant with Chewbacca's death 7 books later after the terrible events of Vector Prime when we are throttled by a second (and to my point of view) a much harsher main character death. This made Star by Star a very difficult book to rate. As enraptured as I was I really couldn't bring myself to enjoy the book after our main character's death. The upbeat of this book is the beautifully emotionally crafted speech that Leia delivers towards the end, and the fact that Luke has gotten his head out of the clouds. I understand the need to add a little suspense in the Star Wars Saga, but this I thought went a little too far. Chewie's death was easier to come to terms with because of the fact that he had lived his life and that he had served the Rebellion and Republic well. Where our young character died before his time.
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Summary: star by star
Review: the book was off da chain. madd crazy twists.damn shame ol boy had to get but it happens. show did hurt to lose lil dude. but this is a shownuff winner yo. if your into this u gotta get this book.
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Summary: Oh sheesh!!!
Review: What're you all complaining for? For those of you who are planning to give up all things Star Wars for one novel in which a character that George didn't even created dies, then why in the heck did you become fans anyway?! I think the character's death helps to develop other characters, as well as opening new ground for furture novels. I admit, I was pretty upset when the character was killed, but I didn't go crazy about it! It's just a novel! Calm down!!! Oh yeah, great book!
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Summary: (...)
Review: those of you who think this book did ANYTHING badly.(...) this book waz FRIKING amazing!! i hate the fact that my favortie character is dead. but now it's real. now we have a REAL fight in which some of our favorites do die. they were super heros. now they are human
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Summary: Get over it!
Review: This book is great!! so it's dark and people die so what?
Are you loyal fans forgetting the EMPIRE and The Emperor?
They conquered the galaxy and destroy ALL but about a dozen Jedi
that were either evil or in hiding. History often repeats itself in reality so shouldn't it do the same in fiction? Two years ago everyone I knew were complaining about Star Wars books being boring and all ending the same. Well here is what you asked for so stop the whinning. Good will eventually overcome. Have any of you actually read any of the books? The Vong will eventually overextend themselves and another great Alliance will be formed.
Some people forget what war really is and that good people die in them and for no purpose. These books show that war isn't all fun and glory and it brings Star Wars back to reality.
besides everyone dies what better way to die than like the main characters in this book do. In a blaze of glory and to save the lives of their friends and the sake of the Universe.
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Summary: Star by Star Fails Young Readers
Review: Star by Star contains three story lines: the events surrounding the lives of Luke and Leia and their counterparts and the strategizing of the Yuuzhan Vong as they seek to take over the New Republic. This book also concentrates on the adventures of the next generation of Jedi who where introduced in the Junior Jedi Knight series and the Young Jedi Knight series. This book works best when it is telling the story of the older Jedi Knights or the Yuuzhan Vong but it fails when its author attempts to tell the story of the younger Jedi Knights infiltrating a Yuuzhan Vong world ship. Readers interested in the younger Jedi Knights will be profoundly disappointed by this book because of Denning's treatment of the characters and because of its dark nature. I am writing this review from the perspective of a mother who read this book to her child because the Junior Jedi Knights are his favorite books. He is very interested in the lives of Anakin and Tahiri and Ikrit's prophecies of the power that these two share between them. Unfortunately, Troy Denning does not seem to have read these books or, if he did, he chose to ignore them and to reinvent the characters. He reduced Tahiri to a jealous girlfriend and failed to acknowledge her powers, the powerful connections that flowed between herself and Anakin or the skills she must have learned while growing up as one of the Sand People. Ikrit does not exist in Denning's book and Anakin's character has assumed the spontaneity that Tahiri brought to the team and lost a lot of its reflective nature. Denning treats the young Jedi Knights as a group of young commandos with some force related powers, but at no time in the book do they come together to show the power that seventeen Jedi Knights working as one with the force could have attained as they did in the Young Jedi Knight Series. Hopefully, the next author in this series can bring back the magic of the force and create a book that is enjoyable for all age groups.
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