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Summary: Overall Good Book.
Review: Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina is a great book for any Star Wars fanatic, like myself. The stories were detailed enough so you got a good visual picture, but not so much as to make a novel. One or two stories were a little hard to understand such as the one on the pipe smoker. I really like the fact that this adds more of a personal touch to the broad expanse of the Star Wars universe. Anyone interested in knowing more about the stories between "The Story" this would be a good book for you. May the Force be with you in all your Star Wars readings. *Feel free to drop me a line about anything!
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: Tales from Mos Eisley Cantina is a great book. It moves quickly and sure-footedly. Teh short stories are great, the interweaving characters reminded me a little of a less metaphoric version of the Sound and the Fury (less the three page long sentences), and all the stories were told with action, suspense, and humor. I particularly enjoyed Het Nkik's tale. This is a great book for even the most casual fan of Star Wars, and a must read for those hardcore ones.
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Summary: The place for Jazz...
Review: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina is the most enjoyable Star Wars book in print. It tells the stories of all the characters you only glanced at and never got to know. Find out about Greedo and the Band, and many other characters. The best part is that every story, though written by separate authors, is interrelated and directly correlates to all the others. Overall, a very good read.
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Summary: Have a seat in Mos-Eisely Cantina
Review: The best Star Wars Book I've ever read. Recently my dad and I decided we'd buy each other a book. He bought me the "Illustrated man", I bought him "Tales from Mos-Eisley Cantina". It's a great book. You can visualise life in Mos-Eisley, taste the smoke in the cantina and almost hear the music playing. Well co-ordinated and linked together, with no holes I could see. It explains alot of the goings on in the back ground in the cantina and in Mos-Eisley itself. It's as close to Tatooine as I'll ever get.
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Summary: A mixed bag of storytelling
Review: The cantina in the first Star Wars movie (now technically the fourth episode, dubbed "A New Hope") was one of the most memorable scenes in that movie, so an anthology delving into the assorted characters at the bar has a lot of potential.
I enjoyed several of the stories, especially Greedo's tale, the hammerhead's tale, the moisture farmer's tale. The ending to Nightlily made me laugh and Timothy Zahn's short story was also good, mostly because Zahn, who originally created Mara Jade, can make some awesome female characters.
I didn't like some of the characters, but I count that as a good thing that means, to me, that the author developed a character strong enough to evoke a reaction. (And plus, given Mos Eisley's reputation as a "wretched hive of scum and villany" you should expect some awful or pathetic beings)
However, a few of the stories were clunkers, with poor characterization, weak plots and stilted writing that relied on too much techno-lingo. Good writing should challenge a reader to think about situations, about characters and motivations, but some of these authors seem to like showing off the jargo, forcing a reader like me (I would call myself a moderate Star Wars fan who has read a fair number of Expanded Universe novels) to have to do way too many double-takes.
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Summary: If you like Star Wars, pick this one up.
Review: The Mos Eisley cantina is the setting for only a single brief, if pivotal, scene in the first Star Wars film. (That's A New Hope for those of you who weren't around when it opened in theaters the first time.) It is there we first see the formidable fighting skills of Obi-Wan Kenobi, get our first glimpse of the hirsute Chewbacca and witness the cunning ruthlessness of Han Solo (at least in the original version; George Lucas applied revisionist history to the recent re-release, spoiling a good scene by making Solo play nice with the bad guy). It also provided us with a quick glimpse of the many diverse lifeforms that populate the spacefaring regions of the Empire. Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina provides a peek into those lives via 16 short stories, each intertwined in some way with the characters and events of that brief movie scene. Each character has little beyond a split-second cameo in the film, a flash on the screen to demonstrate the cutting edge in alien makeup. Now, each has a story. Each also gives readers a slightly different perspective on the droids' failed entrance into the cantina, and each has a different angle on Kenobi's fight at the bar and Greedo's demise. The stories unfold like a great Tatooine tapestry
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Summary: Okay, but not the best collection of short stories
Review: The problem with this book is that it is a media franchise and the authors are thereby limited. Read the The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction: 50th edition. Or pick up a copy of the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, many of the authors in this anthology (Oltion, Bell, Crispin) often appear there. As I speak, this month's issue has a wonderfully weird story by Bradly Denton and a short space opera by Yoon Ha Lee. Next month (April, 2000) will have a story by R. Garcia y Robertson, the best action adventure writer in the genre today.
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Summary: This book is the Bomb!
Review: The Tales I hated were: The moisture farmer's tale: It just plain s*****! The Band's Tale: To short, and s***** too. Boshek's tale ( the spacer ) was probably one of the lamest. Other than that, I loved this book. In short, this book is the bomb!
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Summary: Very good book
Review: This book contains mostly good stories. A couple are really strange, but most of them bring out the life of a person in Mos Eisley
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Summary: Interesting Assortment
Review: This book is a compilation of 16 short stories. It explains some of the lesser known characters that were featured in the cantina scene During Star Wars: A New Hope. The Imaginations of these authors, some of which known for writing Star Wars Novels, some science fiction authors and some new authors, altogether. Each story is about 20 pages long. Some are divided into chapters, while most aren't. Some interesting characters featured in this are: Greedo, The Bith Musicians, Momaw Nadon
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