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Summary: Not a great stand alone, but a good start.
Review: RA Salvatore's Vector Prime would not make a good stand alone book in the Star War universe. It does, however, make a good beginning to a great series.Vector Prime tells of the crossing of the galaxy by an extragalatic species known as the Yuuzhan Vong. The Vong are militant and obsessed with life and purity of life; they have machines. The Yuuzhan Vong have come to the galaxy for one reason, and that is conquest. The Solo children are visiting Lando Calrissian, while at the Ex-Gal science station, a Yuuzhan Vong has infiltrated and is currently working to sabotage the station's systems, and allow his people to get through. He kills everyone at the station except Danni Quee, whom Jacen and Jaina go to rescue. The story is intriguing, and leaves a lot to be answered, allowing for eighteen more books to be written about it. The book, on its own, is nothing special, as the ending doesnt satisfy a tenth of the stories started, but it does set up the oppurtunity for a very interesting series. This must be taken into account when rating this book, because it is not meant to be judge soley on itself, but of what it allows for. I've read this book twice by now, and I liked it much more the second time, after reading several of the followup novels. It's a good effort and a good beginning.
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Summary: Read the entire series and read this again - it's great!
Review: "predictable hazing" is a good term for the reviews I've read here not favorable to Vector Prime... I don't agree - to introduce and get readers to buy into a completely new plot line in Star Wars is no small task. I highly recommend this book to any SW fan, but be forewarned, the series is addicting. When I look back at how well this book foreshadows so many of the events, introduces new characters and shatters illusions about the invincibility of the standard SW cast of characters, I can only rate this a "high five" - :-)
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Summary: Good start to a Good Series
Review: Let me start by saying that i love star wars. Always have, always will. I read a lot of star wars books for a while but then i kinda took a break. When i saw that i new series started, i thought hey, why dont i give it a chance, start reading some star wars again. I had my socks blown off. I read this book in about a day, which is pretty good for me. I didnt put it down. I even begged my parents to drive me to the store so that i could buy the next two books in the series also. So i dont know why so many fans hate the New Jedi Order. In fact it got me back into star wars. Oh spoilers ahead though, the reason i didnt give this book five stars is because they killed off one of the main characters who everybody loves. I mean killing Chewbacca only led to some bad times for Han that no one enjoyed to read. So other than that this is one of the best star wars series ever. Go get it now.
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Summary: Finally
Review: Finally, a Star Wars book where the enemy has a chance! Not a stupid plot about a new superweapon. There is a threat. The last time the Republic looked like it would have to actually pay attention to an enemy was with Thrawn, now there is someone else.
Bad: They make it a short book, then have a sequel so you pay more money. These new SW books just don't cut it. Back in the day... when Bantam published, they were longer and contained better stories. Now... it is meaningless to read them, but this one is interesting.
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Summary: Wow, Dark and Intense!!!!!!!
Review: This opening to the New Jedi Order hits the reader where it hurts the most, his or her heart. The effective narrative pulls with anticipation and moves at the speed of light. The scenes are so darkly graphic that it is easy to tell that the Star Wars novels have matured. Even the death of a major character is involved. Also, the Yuuzhan Vong are such a biological threat to the major characters that they even rival the Emperor himself. Nom Anor, the Yuuzhan Vong leader, is characterized with style and darkness that it brings back recollections of Darth Vader. If this is how the series opens, I wonder how it will end. Intensity begins on the first page and ends on the last. You won't be disappointed. I couldn't recommend this book more. It is worth every penny. Purchase the book and behold the wonder of Star Wars again.
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Summary: Didn't make it to pg. 100
Review: The people who liked this book aren't SW fans; they're sci-fi fans. There's a big difference. SW isn't sci-fi. Lucas said that HIMSELF. Why these writers & fans don't GET that I don't understand. What went wrong? See other bad reviews to get a complete list. As for Chewie's death...inexcusable. #1- if you're going kill off this type of character, have some foreshadowing, draw it out; let us know what's going on his head, make us cry. And for God's Sakes, let us know there was no other way. None of this applied to Chewie's death. He was just gone & there was a dozen different ways he didn't have to die. #2- The 'we wanted to kill a beloved character to bring uncertainty to the story & make you fear for the other characters' is almost ALWAYS a load of crap. After killing 1 beloved character, how often has a writer - or in this case, a corporation - turned around & killed another? Please. As for the 'new' enemy....if you hated the Ssi-Ruuk, you're going to DESPISE these Star Trek rejects. As I read about them, all I could think was 'you killed off Grand Admiral Thrawn & TWO Emperor clones, making the Empire a bunch of pansies for this?' Like in too many other cases, the coporation - after creating a new generation of interesting heroes - failed to make a new generation of interesting villians.
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Summary: Good SciFi, Bad Star Wars & Bad Editing
Review: I had a bad feeling when those who now control the Expanded Universe decided to kill Chebacca. They had a good idea to pump something new in the EU with an invasion from outside the galaxy. So here is SW fans were left with - A series of prequel books and movies that must necessarily be dark... and a new series NJO that starts off dark. Why was it also necessary to kill beloved characters?
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Summary: The Beginning of the End
Review: To many Star Wars bibliophiles, R.A. Salvatore's "Vector Prime" signified the end of a classic literary sub genre. Prior to this particular novel, the Star Wars license had been in the capable hands of Bantam: a publishing house that had remained faithful to the fun-loving essence of the series. With the much-publicized entrance of Vector Prime, the license was transferred to Del Rey and, thenceforward, the story arcs took a darker turn. Del Rey introduced the deaths of both canonical and expanded universe characters, the quixotic pandering to an even younger audience, the introduction of collectivist ideology and politically correct undertones. Through these both sweeping and subtle changes, the space operatic wonder of earlier Star Wars literature was lost and in its place a mere empty shell remained. Vector Prime itself is readable, but lacks the exciting flair of the traditional Bantam epics. The previous having been said, I suggest the reader avoid the New Jedi Order series altogether.
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Summary: how could they.........
Review: THEY KILLED HIM! although it is a well written book, i cant condone the killing of chewie, one of the best charactors in the star wars universe.
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Summary: Salvatore should stick to Forgotten Realms!
Review: I am a big fan of Salvatore's Drizz't novels and was excited when he came out with a Star Wars book. Seeing that he was influenced by Star Wars greatly in many of his other novels ... I thought he would succeed as a worthy adition to the somewhat lacking class of Star Wars authors. Well in my opinion he really failed to meet expectations. One of Salvatore's great skills is not superior writing or story but his ability to create such wonderful, diverse and convincing characters. Well tackling the Star Wars universe seems to have thwarted his creative ability since he was required to use existing characters. I find this is the case for most of the Star Wars novels since none of the authors can truly keep any of the main charters in line with their film counterparts. Salvatore struggled with them greatly. At times their emotion and personality was nowhere near what George Lucas had established. ... The enemy race the Vuuzhan Vong or however were a pretty chinsy foe and it seems authors are really stretching for Star Wars ideas. The book was enjoyable for the most part as a Star Wars story but nowhere near what Salvatore is capable of. Timothy Zahn still is the only author to succeed in writing convincing Star Wars books in my mind.
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