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Summary: The best Star Wars book I've ever read
Review: I thought this was a great sw adventure. My favorite character was Admiral Daala and her military tactic
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Summary: Star Wars: The Made for TV Sequel
Review: Perhaps the earlier reviewers were caught up with enthusiasm for the Star Wars universe to see this trilogy's shortcommings. To put it kindly, this series reminds me of a "USA Original Mini-Series*" and about as well written
While the trials and adventures of Han Solo's imprisonment were the trilogy's high point, overall the books of this series lack depth. The protrayal of the all of the characters seem superficial and one dimensional.
The plot seems rehashed and predictable (as evidenced by the tired plotline of not one but two "devistating superweapons that threaten the -insert New Republic or Galaxy here-") . Anderson's biggest failing is in the weekness of the main villian, Adm. Daala, who is hardly a worthy advisary nor menace.
It hardly deserves the praise given to it by the other reviewers. And it hardly stands up to the bench mark set by Zahn's first trilogy (while flawed was at least better written).
What it share with Zahn's trilogy is its rather mediocre cover art (while I am tired of seeing illustrations ripped off from film stills from the movies, these covers remind me more of velvet paintings of bullfights). Read the Dark Fleet Trilogy or the short stories instead.
*The USA Cable Network (c) 1997
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Summary: Just Read It.
Review: You just reading my review probably won't make you read the book. So if I were right next to you right now I'd shout it. READ THE BOOK! It's the best of the Star Wars books by far... almost as good as the origional movie trilogy. And I should know... I've read almost all of the Star Wars books. (Well, except #2 and #3 in this Jedi Academy Trilogy.
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Summary: One of the best of the legendary Star Wars saga
Review: This novel, along with the other two of the trilogy, is simply the most electrifying sci fi story I have
ever read. Through his Jedi Academy
trilogy, Anderson has clearly shown that he is among the best, if not THE BEST of the Star Wars writers. This trilogy would appeal not only to raging Star Wars fans,but to sci fi lovers of all types. It is just brilliant.From the very first page it
captures your undivided attention, and you just can't force yourself to put it down. Through the whole trilogy, you can clearly envision
all the action in your head.
If 20th Century Fox was to make another Star Wars
movie based on any story, it would definately have
to be this one
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Summary: Yuck
Review: don't buy this star wars book it is no good.The only thing goodabout this book was it's cover( nice painting)
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Summary: great book
Review: This book is great and it has a lot of action and adventure. Luke sets out to form a Jedi Academy. Han Solo go's to Kessel and is imprisoned in the spice mines. After he escapes he steals a super weapon called the sun crusher. To top it all off the Jedi twins Jacen and Jaina come home to their mother Princess Leia. Read this book.
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Summary: Anderson's Jedi Academy Trilogy Won't Disappoint
Review: Absolutely Wonderful! Kevin J. Anderson captured everything
that makes Star Wars so great. There's plenty of action, but
the story is very character-driven, as the movies were. "Jedi Search" and the following two novels are, in my opinion,
better than Timothy Zahn's trilogy (see my review of Zahn's
books in "Heir to the Empire" at Amazon.com). All of the
characters are handled well, better than in Zahn's books.
The story evolves wonderfully throughout and each novel has
its own feel, like each SW movie. The only negative criticism I have is this:
The sudden discovery of so many Force-sensitive people at once for Luke to form his Academy
seems a bit too coincidental to me, but maybe they're more common in the universe than I thought. All in all, however, it's a fantastic story.
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Summary: Okay, but lack of creativity
Review: This book is okay, not great, but okay. The plot is good, but I would have liked to see more time spent on Luke and his trainees. With a title like, "Jedi Search" you'd think that would be the main focus, but Anderson spends much time on Kyp Durron and Han Solo on Kessel. It's interesting enough, and you can see why anyone would not want to be exiled there. Characters are written well: new characters are great, old characters remain true to the past. However... Anderson's style is a bit patronizing. It seems as if this is a book written for kids, and the plot is very predictible. Plus, I always wonder WHY we have to keep having a superweapon in every story? Not only is there a new planet destroying weapon, but there's ANOTHER Death Star, which will see action further in the trilogy. It was bad enough that there was a second in Jedi, but now we have to have a third? Anderson seems a bit short on creativity and subtlety. And why must we have all those references to the just AWFUL comic books about the resurrected Emperor and Luke's apprenticeship to him? The comic books were bad enough, but to tie it in with the novels, all I can say is why? This book is filled with more bad than good, but there's enough here to keep a devoted fan reading 'til the end.
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Summary: Absolutely excellent
Review: This book started me reading, literally, 12 years ago. I was not a reader until one day I happened upon this book, since then I have read countless books. The book is interesting, adventurous and exciting. I have never read a book quite like it. There is a scene with a chase that had my heart pounding when they finally got away. The battles are very interesting, and the story takes the reader to many different places. The only qirk is that andersons puts 50 ties in his squadrons and 300 to an SD, this is incorrect, there are twelve fighters to a squadron, and an Imperial class holds only 72. Despite this detail, this is one of the greatest books I've ever read. The only other star wars novel that comes close is The Courtship of Princess Leia. This book deserves 6 stars but I can only give it five. One final note for those comparing it to Zahn's book, Timothy Zahn had most the Imperial equipment left at the end of his book, and tactically this last battle made no sense.
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Summary: Jedi Knights of a new generation.....
Review: It is a time of transition in the galaxy. A few years after the Battle of Endor, even though the evil Empire now only controls a quarter of its vast territory and Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaign to destroy the fledgling New Republic has been defeated, the former Rebels still face many challenges -- and many foes -- as they strive to restore peace and justice to the galaxy. Thrawn's campaign (chronicled in the 1991-93 trilogy by Timothy Zahn) and subsequent events not only prolonged the continuing conflict between the New Republic and the dying Empire, but they also highlighted the Republic's biggest weakness -- the absence of a strong Jedi Order to help protect its values and its citizens. Where once there had been 10,000 Jedi Knights in the days before Palpatine's rise to power and the demise of the first Galactic Republic, only Luke Skywalker remains as a full-fledged Jedi. Luke, of course, has been trying to train his twin sister Leia in the ways of the Force, but her duties as a member of the Provisional Council and her brother's recent experiences -- including a fall to the dark side and almost a repetition of their father Anakin's mistakes -- have impeded her progress as a Jedi apprentice. Leia's marriage to Han Solo and the birth of three potential Jedi children also demand her attention, so Luke must look elsewhere for Jedi apprentices. Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Search is the first of a three-book cycle that chronicles Luke Skywalker's endeavors to set up a new Jedi Academy and to restore the order of Jedi Knights. With very few records left over after the Great Purge inflicted by the late Emperor and his own father, Darth Vader, Luke must not only scour the galaxy for data on the training of new Knights, but he also needs to find new candidates to teach. Even as Luke gets approval from the New Republic to set up a Jedi academy, new challenges and old enemies arise. On Kessel, Han Solo and Chewbacca are captured by Moruth Doole, a cunning mine official who now runs the entire spice mine complex -- and the individual that had, several years before, tipped off the Imperial tariff authorities that Solo was hauling a load of spice destined for crime boss Jabba the Hutt. The Millennium Falcon had been boarded, but not before Han had jettisoned the spice...which had saved him and Chewbacca from a stint in Imperial detention blocks but not, unfortunately, from a debt to Jabba. Elsewhere, a new threat emerges as Admiral Daala, the beautiful but ruthless woman (and only female flag officer in the Imperial fleet) in command of a squadron of Star Destroyers assigned to protect a top-secret research facility, prepares to unleash a new campaign against the Rebels who killed her paramour and destroyed her beloved Empire. With her four massive warships and several powerful super weapons at her disposal, Daala bides her time, waiting for the proper moment to start her devastating strike.... Anderson, a technical editor and writer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and author of other non-Star Wars novels, has become one of the most prolific authors of Star Wars Expanded Universe material. He loves the universe created by George Lucas in his five films (even though some of the Jedi concepts here are radically different from data established in the two prequels released in 1999 and 2002) and knows the characters and situations well enough to write interesting and entertaining "further adventures" novels, comic book series, and short stories set "a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...."
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