Star Wars: Splinter of the Mind's Eye

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Summary: good
Review: I agree with sith sniper. and also, how hard is it to give a book a good rating?

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Summary: It was a really good book
Review: I thought Alan Dean Foster did a real good job. It was kind of scary at the end, when Darth Vader showed up. Overall the book was worth reading!!

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Summary: IT ROCKS
Review: Will some of u shut up! Ill bet 50$ u guys couldnt write a book that well... it was a good book considering they knew nothing bout the next movies! GEEZ! cut the poor book some slak!

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Summary: superdooper starwars book
Review: I thought that this was a sooper dooper starwars book because I hate dark vader and I like it when they light saver him to peices. Sometimes When I read this book, it makes me want to be a jedi knight, flying through the galaxy light savering everyone who gets in my way.

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Summary: Excellent, providing insight into the creation of Star Wars
Review: The book is well written. I Read it when it first came out in 1978. It has to be remembered that the book was pre "Empire Strikes back" and was at one point supposed to be the basis for the second and final Star Wars movie. The plot is good but the lack of numerous characters interplaying with one another does lead to a simple story line. For those people expecting a smooth interconnection between this book and and what became the Star Wars trilogy and now phantom menace you will be disappointed. Afterall, in 1978, after the first Star Wars movie was made, we didn't know the major plot twists that would follow; Vader being Luke's father was conceived on-the-fly on the set during filming Empire Strikes Back and Leia being Luke's sister didn't come out until Return of the Jedi. Over all this was an excellent book, and still is, especially if you are into "what ifs" and "what could have beens."

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Summary: Good...but not great...
Review: It's not that Alan Dean Foster is a bad author, I think it's more that book dosen't fit anywhere within the Star Wars universe. Since it was made before Empire Strikes Back, he didn't have alot to work with. The characters weren't really fleshed out and the overall story hadn't even been created. It would be a great book...if it wasn't Star Wars...

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Summary: Way too unrealistic
Review: The book starts off as realistic and normal, as one would expect after A New Hope. By the end, it is completely unrealistic. There is no way things would take place as they did. Vader being so emotional? Never. While he was more emotional in A New Hope than any other time, he still was far colder than shown here. In Empire, Vader is pure darkness and evil, perhaps shown best when he jumps down at Luke during their duel, flying from above, like a dark raven. He has almost no dialogue in comparison, and the thought of him doing and saying all he did in Mind's Eye is not realistic. Vader did not seem all that strong in Mind's Eye, and Luke and Leia seemed stronger than they should have. In reality, Vader could have cut all of them up almost instantly. Luke had almost no training, and Leia none. Way too unrealistic.

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Summary: Interesting Elements
Review: I can see why critics would diapprove of this book; it doesn't seem to warrant its "official" status. However, the story itself is quite an interesting look at the Force, and you can still reason out all the story elements that are seemingly incongruent to the Star Wars universe by saying that the character developments (for example) in this book are an extrapolation of those in A New Hope, and that when The Empire Strikes Back came out, their development took a slightly different turn.

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Summary: the force is not in this book
Review: I am the biggest Star Wars fan in the world and I love everything about it but this book makes me sick. If I had a light saber I would cut it in 2 they sould have never have wrote this book because it had nothing to do the the other movies. r2d2 and c3po really sucked in this book they are my 2nd favorit people.

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Summary: Pure balony!!!!
Review: This book was worse than Bantha dung! The characters were totally flat and two - dimensional. Leia depends on Luke for EVERYTHING! As my favorite character, I should know that that is not her personality at all! She is certainly not idiotic enough to duel Darth Vader! That crystal business is junk! Don't waste your time.