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I, Jedi : Star Wars

I, Jedi : Star Wars

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: First person rocks !!!
Review: This is a fantastic book, the best SW book I'v read in a long time. Stackpole does a superb job with the 1st person perspective. Think of this, you're reading a scene where the character(s) is about to be ambush, instaed of jumping to another character as they do 3rd person you get to find out what happens immediately. You also get a better understanding of the character and you get to know every thing that's happening with the character. I think more SW books should be written in the 1st person it's a welcome change. Only problem is that I propably would never hear from Corran Horn again except in the X-Wing series.

Only problem is since this book takes place during the time of the Jedi Academy Trilogy it distorts some of the information you might of read in the trilogy. For instance if you read I, Jedi before Kevin J. Anderson's Jedi Academy trilogy, it'll spoil a lot for you. Just the same if you read the trilogy before reading this book, some of the things will be repetative and distorted. How ever the book takes its own course towards the middle.

This book is definitely a must for Jedi fanatics you learn how to create a lightsaber, and you learn about other special powers accesible with the force. It still as starfighters in action and you learn about the TriFighter.

This book has a terrific ending sort of. You'll find out I don't want to spoil it. There's lots of action and even espionage. You also meet other Jedi who works on the dark side. Stackpole did a fantastic job!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Killer book....
Review: Stackpole did another 5 start book. If you have read the 4 X-wing books, this one fits right in. The one thing I didn't like about this book was that it was in 1st person, insead of the clasic 3rd person. Other than that small inconvence, its a great book, with lots of interesting twists and turns. Recomend this book to everyone!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: hmmm.... pretty good actualy
Review: When I first picked the book off the shelves I did so because it was new... I didn't even glance through. On returning home I opened it to find it all writen from a first person perspective... argh!!!! But after slogging my way through it was actualy very good. After a while I didn't notice the 1 st person storyline and just got on with enjoying the book. One niggle though.... while at the academy during the events of the same trilogy, corran is a core character... yet he obviously dosen't appear in the origional. it seems faked. he should have arrived at a later, less important date. otherwise, a great book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: must-read
Review: Stackpole has proven that he is a close second to Zahn in the Star Wars Universe. This is an excellent novel- this book is better than the jedi search trilogy.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: O for effort!
Review: I was floored by the way he was able to make this book flow through the VERY crowded Star Wars universe. I think it takes ALOT of guts pull a book like this off (and not screw it, or the "universe" up).

The book DOES drag on at times, but lets not over look the fact that its almost 500 PAGES! If it was non stop action, i don't think i would have made it to the end. Sometimes the reader needs a break!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Exelent Book, A grat companion to the Jedi Academy series.
Review: I liked this story because it follows along with other Star Wars books but from another point of view. It is always nice to see a story line branch out and become multi faceted.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: What a load of rubbish
Review: Frankly, I'm disappointed. After a bang-up job on the Rogue Squadron series and on the Blood of Kerensky trilogy, Mr. Stackpole seems now to be using his book as a Corran Horn vehicle to the detriment of the other characters. I shudder to think that he may be a participant in not only the Star Wars, but Battletech universe as well.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best Star Wars book yet
Review: I really had a hard time getting into the novel, it came out during my last semester of my senior year at college, so I had other more important things on my mind. Anyway, I was unsure of the title "I, Jedi" and what it meant. It didn't take long to realize that the entire novel is in the first person perspective. I believe this made the novel more interesting in the fact that you always had to wonder what the other characters were thinking.

I don't want to give too much away here but, I will always wonder what Tycho was thinking during the battle where Corran made a projection to Tychos mind then responded "I didn't want you to think I was a Green pilot." If I remember right when Corran joined the Rogues in the paperbacks, his personal X-Wing was Green.

After reading this book I did not feel that I was observing a Star Wars story, but living a Star Wars story.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Bummer
Review: I was dissapointed. There was too much shallow philosophising and reinterpretation of other people's story lines (Lucas and Zahn). If you're going to philosophize, make it thought provoking! Also, too little real charachter study to make the dialog time worthwhile. The rusult was not enough action -- mental, emotional, or physical. I can believe that Stackpole wrote this one quickly, because it looked like he never took the time to go back and trim the parts that dragged and beef up the parts that were really exciting.....A final beef, Luke is a hero and I don't like it when heros are made to look impotent (a problem I also had with Zahn's original stories). Heros can certainly have (and should have) flaws, but that's not the same as impotence. All that being said, if you're as much a Star Wars fan as I am, you'll read the book and enjoy it anyway!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I'm confused about this good book
Review: I read this almost immediatley after it was published thanks to amazon.com. So I read it and have looked over related books all I know is Stackpole is a genius in taking his character and having him have an adventure in a already existing storyline it surprised me how he did it. This book is like readin a trilogy from Yavin to correlia and to Courkoous this is a Masterpiece of Star Wars Literature.


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