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Summary: Anderson or Zahn? -that is the q.....
Review: I think Zahn is much better writter! That is a fact...
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Summary: Jedi's do it again!
Review: Another wonderful book about Star Wars! Leia finally gets Jacan and Jania back, but Han and Chewie are missing. Luke is looking for Jedi canidates and Lando makes 1 million credits, without really tring. All withen another great Star Wars novel! Bye now, I have to go look for the second book!
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Summary: Good start then..................
Review: This book had a great beginning.But The characters are totally 1 sided. Don't you think Luke would be slightly ticked when Gantois tried to KILL HIM! want to see the characters at their peak? Read Vision of the future. LANDO GET YOUR EYES OF MARA! IT IS HER AND LUKE! BACK OFF!
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Summary: Not that good!
Review: First Kevin J. Anderson is writing a "adult novel". Not a little kiddie book. We do not need any baby jokes okay? Another note. He added the suncrusher. What? The suncrusher's armor is made out of indestructible armor that a Star Destroyer, no matter how long it fires on the fighter-sized superweapon will never destroy it. That is very believable. Perhaps the author wanted a horror story for 4 year old kids. If the material the armor is made of is indestructible then how did the Empire shape the indestructible metal? In the book turbolaser blasts don't have any visible effect on the armor. Please Keven J. Anderson, expain how they shaped it and why the Empire did not use the armor for other ships? And about the method Luke used to find if someone is strong in the force. Cheap, stupid and idiotic. And what is it with the wasted chapters? If you have this book please go to chapter nine and tell me the significance of that chapter. I don't really hate this trilogy, except for the last book of course, but can't we get something good at least? Oh, Admiral Daala is supposed to be a tactical genius who was so good that she was picked by Tarkin. In this book, she is a total tactical twit. Maybe that is what happens to people when they don't fight for about 15 years. Not the most exciting trilogy, in my opinion.
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Summary: Absolutely Dire
Review: Talk about a thin, unimaginative plot, hopeless characters, and a thoroghly pedestrian style. For me, Timothy Zahn's Star Wars books were guilty pleasures, sort of the Tom Clancy (before he went into the tank himself) of Sci-Fi - we're not exactly talking high-quality here, but at least engaging. Zahn's books may not have been particularly plausible even in the fantastic Star Wars universe, and the plots were certainly strained (to say the least), but they still caught your attention and kept you reading.This trilogy, though, is hopeless. Beyond the pale, really. Not one redeeming new idea or character, nor any believable or even sympathetic presentations of old characters. It must be admitted that Star Wars is, in fact, a merciless world to write for since the pre-existing material is so good and reader expectations are high. On the other hand, readers' familiarity and enthusaism can carry an otherwise margial work; but not even that is enough to save this dreadful hack. I reccomend you retain your enthusiasm for the Star Wars universe and not read this book. On the other hand, once you've finished you are unlikely to believe that it had anything to do with Star Wars universe anyway (although the lightsabres do flash nicely, it's really hard to get that distinctive hum going when you just don't buy any of it).
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Summary: Oh, For Zero Stars
Review: It's this sort of book that we need a Zero star rating for. Jeez. KJA wastes perfectly good pieces of blank paper by putting his writing on them.
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Summary: Well done.
Review: This was a good book.But after you read it you can read either I,Jedi or Dark Apperintice.(I recommend I,Jedi.
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Summary: Jedi Search Rocks!
Review: I don't get it. Most people say that Timothy Zahn and his,Heir to the Empire,Dark Force Rising,and The Last Command books are the best in the Star Wars series. Wrong! I don't care what you people say, Kevin Anderson is the best! Sure Timothy Zahn is a semi-good author but KJA's triliogy is the best!
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Summary: Approach with extreme caution !
Review: Not something you'd want to read straight after Return of the Jedi. I have the audacity to call myself a starwarsian, yet I made the fatal mistake of reading this novel before all others; D'OH! It's not that this is a bad book. Anderson has done a reasonable job. The overall plot is good and the character development (+7yrs RotJ) is realistic. The writing may not be the most scholarly, but it is easy to read and the author doesn't waste any time. Having said all this, there is one colossal, unforgivable flaw: Right from the word go, Anderson begins and continues to name drop from every book and movie made ahead of this. Now I realise there is continuity in SW novels (and rightly so!), but there was no purpose to these spoilers; they didn't influence this particular story. In turn, this affected my enjoyment of reading other Star Wars; in particular Zahn's Empire trilogy. Also, it took me a year to figure out this resurrected emperor theme and Luke's indulgence in the dark side, which Anderson kept making such a big deal of. I very strongly recommend that you read all the novels which take place prior to this, including Dark Empire I and II. Then and only then, read this and the ensuing series.
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Summary: Who is paying this hack to write this dreck?
Review: Note to anyone who picks up this or any other Kevin Anderson SW novels: if you've seen the movies, don't read these books! Anderson pads his narrative with NUMEROUS references to movies; so many, in fact, that they are intrusive and annoying. Any claim that the story flows well must come from people who have never seen the movies before. If anything, the book reads a lot like a Cliff's Notes version of the movies. The only reason I gave this book a one-star rating is that there wasn't any lower rating to choose from.
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