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Summary: My Thoughts on "Vector Prime"
Review: This book was amazing. I don't know what it was about this book, but I thought it really rocked. Everybody should read this, even if they don't like Star Wars (although it probably helps to be a fan). I just couldn't put this book down. The only thing I hated was the fact Chewbacca died. Why the heck did Salvatore do that!?! I actually cried. That is very rare for me. I felt better after I looked at my Star Wars Insider magazine. In issue #50, they have a quote from a reader: "Please, take a moment of silence for our good friend Chewbacca, and remember all the times he snickered and growled." I saw that and laughed. All in all, the book was great, and I think you should read it.
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Summary: I don't mean to be cruel...
Review: I remember when I first saw this book. I was at Springfield Mall with my dad, looking for something...passed a book store and saw this book. I was immideatly hypnotized and noted to remember the title. Then I got and read it...and it was very slow. First of all, the chapters were very long. There's so much hype about the inavsion of the Vong, you get really tired about hating about and dread reading another chapter about the conquest of the Vong. 2nd, there's Chewie's death - an event no star wars fan could ever predict. 3rd, this is the only good part in my opinion, Jacen gets a love interest, Danni Quee. And 4, Luke considers reasserting the Jedi Council as a leading body, which is what the entire series is about...but there is no conclusion to his decision. Will he or won't he? Over all, it was very dissappointing, not very note-worth moments or qutoes for that matter. Basically like reading the Corellian trilogy. One page after another of detail detail and more detail. ~~~Very boring~~ but luckily the next two books aren't like that. I've already read them and I rate them high on the Star Wars scale :)
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Summary: This one will ripe your heart out!
Review: This one took me for a loop. Killing Chewie was a shock. I have read other books were characters are killed off and of course the movies. Never thought that Chewie would be one of them. Put that aside the book is not half bad. The story line is unique. Everyone seems to find new threats in that big galaxy out there. The Ssi-ruuk and their mind controlled fighters to the Vong and their living "machines". I can see why they choose this type of alien to make a long series with "New Jedi Order". For those who read this--This book is for true Star Wars fans.
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Summary: VERY BAD
Review: Why did he kill off Chewbacca???? :-( I loved Chewie. The only good thing about this book is that Jacen might fall in luv with Danni Quee. (Hey, it could happen!)
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Summary: Keep the Kleenex handy
Review: I truly enjoyed this book. I was leary of Salvatore at first but when I got into the book--about 3 pages--I changed my mind. He's not Zahn or Stackpole but it was an enjoyable experience. The story moves rapidly and is very hard to put down. You feel Han's pain as well as young Anakins heart break. This part had me in tears--books just don't usually do that to me. For Mara and Luke fans this is a good one. And as one of the other reviewers stated this story puts more emotion in the men. Happy reading
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Summary: Bah! Stick with fantasy Salvatore!
Review: I have read the Crystal Shard series from Salvatore back in 1989 and loved it. I have read the Star Wars series ever since the Zahn series. This should have been the best novel yet. But Salvator only rehashes the same story lines that have been beaten to death in previous books. There is little imagination, what little there is is far fetched. If I tell you that this book is about an evil force threatening the Republic, you say "yeah, so? We've seen that in every book!" He has the big death of Chewie in this book. Something like this should be monumental. You should remember this like you remember when JFK was shot. But instead, it is an akward, messy moment. We don't have time to grieve Chewie. The whole book is rushed to get to the death of Chewbacca, and when we get there, we are in a hurry to get done with it.
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Summary: This may very well be the novel that saved Star Wars
Review: Although not everybody seems to agree, I was rather glad the Empire finally trew in the towel in "Vision of the Future". I always loved the ever so pretentious and evil Imperials and thought they were some of the best villains I ever encountered in both novels and films. But after going through the standard "(ex)-Imperials resurface and put in to motion a new sinister plot concerning a superweapon, a fleet of Stardestroyers and a bag of peanuts"-gig for about three milion times in a row, I really was getting rather tired of them.Thankfully, mister Salvatore was so kind not to try to undo Zahn's brilliant move, and took the tremendous responsebility to go and create a whole new threat to galactic peace. Looking at the later novels in this series, I tend to say he did a reasonable job. At the very least their freakisch biological technology is more interesting than Imperial Doomsday-device number onehundred-and-fourty-eight. At a lot of points it is even funny to see how the Yuuzhan Vong solved some technological concern using genetic manipulation and bio-technology instead of machines. Chewie's death is a brilliant move. It shows even the characters from the original movies are mere mortals and it puts up the tention in the later novels, because for once, the survival of Luke, Leia and "the gang" isn't completely sure. In a way. Han Solo's reaction to the death of his furry companion is rather funny. Apparently, not only the Star Wars authors and their readers seem to have forgotten that the characters are mere mortals, but so have the characters themselves. After all, the last major character that kicked the bucket was Darth Vader in ROTJ! (I don't count the resurrected Emperor from Dark Empire, by the way, he was by all acounts a minor character) the fact that Salvatore killed of a major, and rather popular character such as Chewbacca was endaring and has a true streak of genious to it. So we finally have a more original story than the standard-issue Heir to the Empire-isch plot, new and for once somewhat more original villains, and even a little touch of genious in killing an important SW-character. All in all that seems like a whole lot of potential, that even a mediocore writer should be able to turn into the most original and neat Star Wars novel we have seen since Vision of the Future. I read most of the novel while traveling through a particularly uninteresting part of Holland, and although it was a great help in dragging myself through the long hours speeding past the cows, grass and occasional farms, the story really had to get going before it became somewhat interesting. It is certainly not the best in the SW canon, but it certainly isn't the worst either. Yet, I'me rather glad because of what Salvatore did. He finally hammered something really new into a sci-fi series that had started to do nothing else but repeating itself. Although his novel really isn't a masterpiece such as Heir to the Empire, The Truce at Bakura or the X-wing series. Or even reasonable, such as The Jedi Acedemy series or Chidren of the Jedi. This novel may very well have saved the whole Star Wars series by kicking off a whole new chapter in the overall Star Wars storyline. It is refreshing, it is original, it is daring, and it is a rather boring read. All in all: four stars, three for being original , and one for the rather dissapointing story itself.
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Summary: Another great story, another great enemy
Review: Following in the tradition of the Star Wars novels, as soon as you think the New Republic is safe, on comes another evil that must be stopped. Plenty of action, cool new characters, a good story line, and a couple really surprising twists make Vector Prime a great read, and a great start to the New Jedi Order series.
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Summary: This is a Star Wars book?
Review: I don't know how this book was approved for publishing by Lucas's company because it was the most the un-Star Wars book I've read since The Crystal Star. I'd imagine Star Trek fans will like it but they would probably like anything. This author is new to writing Star Wars and that's pretty obvious from this book. Doesn't anyone do research anymore? The characters are wrong, the way ships are described is awful, obvious items from previous books are missing and the ending was SO BAD I actually burst out laughing! Probably the worst thing they did was kill off a movie character just to stir up some controversy. It worked because it seems a lot of people bought this book but for most, it will probably be their last. It's still a cheap trick and I wouldn't be proud to do something like this. Unfortunately, there's a lot of Star Wars fans that will like any old story featuring the original trilogy characters so the rest of us have to suffer through just so much junk until we find the good books like the ones by Tim Zahn and Balance Point which was just released.
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Summary: Chewbacca should live
Review: I hated this book and believe they should never have killed Chewbacca what a disapointment Chewbacca was the best.
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