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Summary: Get this story in "Tatooine Ghost"
Review: 1 Star because you can get this book for free somewhere else. In the Mass Market paperback edition of Tatooine Ghost, A Forest Apart is included. Seems like a much better bargain to me.
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Summary: I Have Always Supported These Before
Review: But there is no way I can recommend this work which barely amounts to a single chapter in length. Fifty four pages are what you get for your money. This is not an E-Book or an E-novel; it is an extended E-paragraph. There are two redeeming qualities in this gathering of parts, and depending on your personal views, the third may be no more than a spoiler for an upcoming Star Wars novel due the first week of March 2003.Wookies cannot speak basic. So how does the author handle this? He places brackets around all the dialogue in this extremely brief snippet of a story. What's wrong with quotation marks, they have worked for the hundreds of other species over the decades that Star Wars has unfolded. The pages appear covered in typos with all the brackets, and on more than one occasion words are missing from sentences. And how do Wookies speak when their native language is translated? Like they are human, absolutely no effort was put in to a single thought as to how one of the most loved characters in the Star Wars Saga may speak, he sounds like a protocol droid, as does his wife and his son. After the several minutes you will use on the, "story", there is a six page interview with Troy Denning, the author of both this and the upcoming book in March. How valuable and well thought out is this? The author is asked how he kept spoilers from Episode III from his forthcoming book. As he wrote this book almost a year ago, and Episode II had yet to appear, it could not have been much of a problem. The questions get no better, and the answers match the depth of the questions. The final part of this three piece mediocrity is a 14 page spoiler of the upcoming book. If you have any reservations about knowing what is coming on (March 2 according to this electronic story) stay far away from this E-thing. It is not a preview; it is a spoiler, or multiple spoilers depending on how you view the information given. This is not worthy of Troy Denning.
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Summary: A Forest Apart
Review: I am sure I would have enjoyed this IF IT HAD BEEN ABLE TO READ IT OR CONTACT YOU TO FIND OUT HOW TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM WITH MSREADER.Of course you have my money and couldn't care less about customer satisfaction. Every time I download MSReader and go to install it, the computer asks to erase it. I've downloaded it from your site and Microsoft's. Of course, they also could not care less whether it works or not because the problem doesn't fit the limited number of problems with which they are willing to concern themselves. The Adobe Reader works fine with AOL and Windows 98. I'm running Word 2000. It would be nice if you knew how to fix this, but, since you can't be bothered listing a contact number, I won't count it -- nor will I buy from you again.The one star is for your sorry, lazy customer service.
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Summary: decent
Review: The main book it writen better. I see why this is an ebook. But the book has chewie in it, so that helps it
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Summary: decent
Review: The main book it writen better. I see why this is an ebook. But the book has chewie in it, so that helps it
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Summary: Finally, a story about the Wookie!
Review: Troy Denning returns to Star Wars with this entertaining tale about Chewbacca and his wife and son, Malla and Lumpy.
It's a fairly simple story. Chewie has brought his family over to Coruscant to re-connect with them. While there, Lumpy finds an intruder in the Solo apartment and chases them down to the lower levels of the city planet.
Chewbacca and Malla follow him, knowing that he is inexperienced in the life that Chewbacca leads, and know that he'll get into trouble. They find him, but uncover a plot that could undermine the New Republic government.
This was a good story because it covers ground that has not been touched before: Chewie's family, and how his long absences affect them. We see that it does, as Malla explains that Lumpy has few friends and uses his influence as Chewie's son to get into trouble. It's good to see this happening, as that Chewie's family doesn't appear much, and not for very long.
What was also good about the story was the plot. It's all very crisp and moves quickly and logically. The characters take logical moves and go from place to place quickly, without anything else to mess the story up any. In a way, this is also harmful to the story, because it goes by a little too quickly, and there could have been some other things put in.
The title is a little misleading. There's not too much about the differences between Lumpy's home and Coruscant, which could have been expanded upon, although it is hinted at in the theme of the story. Also, the cover has Han Solo in it, even though we don't see him at all. It's all Wookies, and that's fine, we don't see enough of them. It was also great to see them get pretty mad; The action is pretty exciting and different. (How many times do we see a Wookie bend a person in half the wrong way?)
There's not much wrong with the story, which is a great read and cheap to pick up. You can't go wrong with the cover though.
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Summary: Not as bad as others are saying.
Review: Yes, this e-book is short, and yes it probably should have been cheaper, but "A Forest Apart," is a fast-paced read that I enjoyed thoroughly. You don't get to see much of Chewbacca's family and it's nice to read about them. Not every story in the Star Wars Universe has to be about the Skywalker Twins, Han Solo, and Lando Calrissian. I do wish the story was longer, but Troy Denning got his point across, and didn't waste the reader's time doing so. Good Job!
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