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Summary: Attack on 1st person unfounded
Review: Many of the readers I've talked to about this book attack the way it defaces Luke, or the first person format Stackpole uses. I think that these readers don't realize that the two issues are naturally tied together. Luke seemed like a wimp because Coran viewed him as a wimp. The fact that the book focused on Corran in the defeat of Exar Khan is correct because that's how Corran viewed it. Get the picture. I also thought that the first person merely shows the deft writting inherent in Stackpole's works. Within a few pages I, at least, was transformed into this environment. Not many writters can do this as well as Stackpole. Anyway definitely a must read book. These people who complain about Stackpole defacing Luke just can't stand their hero being anything but infallible.
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Summary: Original.
Review: The first person point of view is new to the Star Wars universe, but it's also one of the things that sets this book apart from all the others. Stackpole manages to blend his events with those in the Jedi Academy Trilogy pretty well, and he goes into more detail about Jedi training than Anderson ever has. Not to mention that a whole book about Corran Horn couldn't be a bad thing! Overall, it was an original Star Wars book, and a joy to read.
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Summary: The Star Wars Universe gets a "dressing down"
Review: I really liked Michael A. Stackpoles' attempt at bringing a new major character into the spotlight. Corran Horn is the antithesis of Luke Skywalker. Where Luke has become a brooding and morose character, Horn is strong-willed and confident. This book brings back some of the "toughness" that I saw in the original Zahn novels. A definite "must" for any Star Wars fan.
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Summary: The book is absoultly terrible
Review: The book is completly pointless. It focuses on the infamous Corron Horn of the equally bad X-Wing series. The main theme is about a mans struggle with finding out who he is and it just takes place in the star wars universe. The first person point of view makes the book confusing and often requires the rereading of sections several times before you understand it. Next stackpole completly re-writes the personality of Luke Skywalker, making him seem weak, unconfident and in general a nieve person grasping for a goal in an illogical way. If you read the Jedi Acadamy trilogy by Kevin J. Anderson, which the the events in this book parallel, you will see a completly different portrayl of Luke. An author has the right to radicaly change the personality of a characture they introduce but not one that was created in the original movies over 20 years ago. If you read the Jedi Acadamy trilogy you would also see how much of a farce Corran's trainig and his sole defeat of Exar Kun is. When all the Jedi students gather and defeat Kun ALL are present. Also, Mara, who miraculosly appears to save Corran is not evenmentioned as having returned in the trilogy. Finally, the event which prompts this sole searching is miraclosly solved in a chapter and a half, very lame. My fianl words on this subject would be read this book only if you were being paid double its retail value.
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Summary: Great!!!!
Review: This is the first time I really read a book dealing with a Rouge Squadron member, but I found it absolutly great, and the way it was written in first person was great too
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Summary: Disapointing
Review: Overall this was a pretty good book. Corran is an interesting character and Stackpole is a great writer. But he has a couple of major problems that undermine the entire story. First of, by comparison to other books, his wife is missing for over a year! How can you be spending so much time at the academy and fooling around with pirates while your wife is missing. Second, Stackpole simply cannot wright with any characters other than his own. Luke is a somewhat naive and arrogant "Jedi Master" who knows nothing of the Force but thinks he knows everything. Mara is an overly freindly smuggler, not the hardend warriror Zahn intended her to be. Plus the annoyingly constant need of every caracter to discuss every aspect of their relationships with each other(Is that Mara Jade discussing the reason she's not attracted to Corran?) Stackpole is a good author but he needs to realize his limitations.
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Summary: This book is simply one of the best Star Wars books EVER!
Review: I, Jedi is a fast paced, action packed, humorous book. It provides a great new perspective on Corran Horn. I reccomend it to anyone who liked the X-Wing Series or the Jedi Acadamy Trilogy
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Summary: ugly...
Review: This is one of the worst Star Wars books written. The first person view sucks and Corran whines all the time about his dad's death , GET OVER IT. Luke's whiny and weak , and worst of all , a FEMALE Moff??? I thouht the Emperor was biased against females. Daala was said to be the highhest ranking Imperial female , and now we have a female Moff?. wierd. And there is apperently a timeline inconsistency here , since this story apperantly takes place with the Jedi trilogy. Corran Horn sucks. I hate him. And I hope he doesnt look as ugly as he does on the cover , if so I cant imagine why all these females in the X-wing novels were atracted to him. skip this book. nothing important happens anyway.
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Summary: Keep up the good work.
Review: I've seen a bunch of these other reviews, and the main two complaints I've seen is that it was A)in first person B)too long.Fact is, I thought that these were two of the best points of the book. One of the things that bugs me the most is the fact that in most third-person books, the story is always switching between characters. Now, I know that that is the main point of a third-person story, but I like to find one point and stay there. The plot-line always follows Corran, and never deviates to such bores as **shudder** politics. Non-stop action the whole way through, plus step-by-step instructions of such aspects as The Force and lightsaber building. Now, on to the length of the story. I really like it better if a story lasts longer, because all I do after I finish is pick up another Star Wars book that I have already read and read it again. I liked it that it lasted long enough for me to remain interested for a few weeks. As I said, five stars, and if you have ever wondered about different aspects of the Force, or how a lightsaber is made, the basics are all found here in "I, Jedi". Drew Corbitt: Master of the Dark Side
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Summary: not one of the best
Review: I was sort of shocked to read how long Corran spent at the Jedi academy. I would have gone right at and started to look for Mirax. But yes I know Luke told Corran that it was to dangerous to go out at the time since he was a Jedi vulnerable to the dark side of the force. The part where he was the dark shadow and getting people afraid was great.
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