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Summary: This book has some great stories in it that are worth it!
Review: this book is a pretty good read. If you are interested in Star Wars this is for you! Most of the stories are interesting and funny. It is an entertaining book.
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Summary: Mos Eisley Rocks!
Review: This book tells so much about the characters that I didnt know about before. Kevin J anderson is the best sci-fi writer there is! I love Greedos tale. If you like one of the characters in the movie and want to know more about it then this is the book for you.
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Summary: Star Wars
Review: This is a collection of short stories. It is an interesting book and fills in some gaps. The main movie characters are in the stories only briefly, if at all.
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Summary: This book deserves 4.5 stars!
Review: This is much better than Bounty Hunters.But some of the stories stunk.Overall it was good.
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Summary: Great stories from a cantina full of "scum and villainy."
Review: This is the "tales" book that started it all, and what a way to start!Some highlights include: 1. We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's Tale, a funny story about everyone's favorite jizz band, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. 2. Soup's On: The Pipe Smoker's Tale, a very bizarre story about how the guy with the pipe hunts down his victims...3. At The Crossroads: The Spacer's Tale is a very cool story about the guy that Obi-Wan talks to first and is directed to Chewie by. You'll love how he relates to Han and Chewie and his impressions of the strange Jedi who talked to him. 4. A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale is a funny story that shows the reader how pathetic he actually was. 5. The Sand Tender: The Hammerhead's Tale is nice because it gives background info on a cantina character that was actually seen again in later Star Wars novels. 6. Doctor Death: The Tale of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba is great! Dr. Evazan is truly a twisted individual! 7. Drawing the Maps of Peace: The Moisture Farmer's Tale is very well written. It is about the struggles of a man much like Owen Lars who has to lay down the law with marauding Tusken Raiders. There are sixteen excellent stories in this book by some of the best sci-fi writers around. This book is a definite must-own for any Star Wars fan! Buy it now and see which tales you like the best and get your VCR ready to find all of these cool characters. Happy hunting!
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Summary: Great stories from a cantina full of "scum and villainy."
Review: This is the "tales" book that started it all, and what a way to start! Some highlights include: 1. We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's Tale, a funny story about everyone's favorite jizz band, Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes. 2. Soup's On: The Pipe Smoker's Tale, a very bizarre story about how the guy with the pipe hunts down his victims...3. At The Crossroads: The Spacer's Tale is a very cool story about the guy that Obi-Wan talks to first and is directed to Chewie by. You'll love how he relates to Han and Chewie and his impressions of the strange Jedi who talked to him. 4. A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale is a funny story that shows the reader how pathetic he actually was. 5. The Sand Tender: The Hammerhead's Tale is nice because it gives background info on a cantina character that was actually seen again in later Star Wars novels. 6. Doctor Death: The Tale of Dr. Evazan and Ponda Baba is great! Dr. Evazan is truly a twisted individual! 7. Drawing the Maps of Peace: The Moisture Farmer's Tale is very well written. It is about the struggles of a man much like Owen Lars who has to lay down the law with marauding Tusken Raiders. There are sixteen excellent stories in this book by some of the best sci-fi writers around. This book is a definite must-own for any Star Wars fan! Buy it now and see which tales you like the best and get your VCR ready to find all of these cool characters. Happy hunting!
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Summary: Fantastic collection of short stories
Review: TMEC is a very interesting collection of short stories which all deal with the lives and experiences of the customers in the cantina. Learn the truth about Greedo, discover why the Sand People hate humans, learn how Han Solo's Kessel-run-record was broken by BoShek, and know why the cantina band "don't do weddings". It's a good book and most of the stories are very well composed.
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Summary: A great book, no major Star Wars knowledge needed to enjoy
Review: While I am fairly well versed in Star Wars literature, this was the first of the tales books I've read, and I have to say I was impressed. It's amazing how many other struggles between life and death were going on at the same time as A New Hope. Each story in this book is excellently well crafted, and it is amazing how just about every character in the Mos Eisely Cantina scene not only had a name, but also an intire backround as to what they happened to be doing and why by pure chance they happened to be there on that particular fateful afternoon. Also, in order to read this book one doesn't have to be particularly well versed in Star Wars, unlike many of the other novels, which are practically impossible to read unless you have read every single one that takes place before it. This book only requires that you have seen the movies. The authors were chosen well too, and I recognized many of them as authors of Star Wars novels I have read. The stories are: We Don't Do Weddings: The Band's Tale, this is the story of Figrin Da'an and the Model Nodes, the band who was playing in that scene. A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale, as you can probably tell from the title, this story is about Greedo the bounty hunter, and is surprising heartfelt and sad. Hammertong: The Tale of the "Tonika Sisters", at last I know what a Mistryl is! This story tells of the two women masquerading as the Tonika sisters in that scene. Play it Again, Figrin Da'an: The Tale of Muftak and Kabe, a heartwarming story of friendship and love. The Sand Tender: The Hammerhead's Tale, a sad and haunting story of an exiled Ithorian caught under the heel of the Empire. Be Still My Heart: The Bartender's Tale, ever wonder about the sweaty bartender who orders Threepio and Artoo out? this is a surprising sweet story of how even the most hardened people can eventually be reached. Nightlily: The Lover's Tale, one of my least favorites, but still a pretty interesting story, very surprising ending. Empire Blues: The Deveronian's Tale, a somewhat depressing story about the little devil guy hanging around the cantina. Swap Meet: The Jawa's tale, an interesting story of a Jawa overcoming fear to take revenge on a pack of imperials, we don't get the true outcome until we read the next story. Tradewins: The Ranat's Tale, a companion story to the previous one, have to read one to understand the other. When the Desert Wind Turns: The Stormtrooper's Tale, even Imperials are human beings, just like anyone else, learn the name of the "Look Sir, Droids" stormtrooper! Soup's On: The Pipesmoker's Tale, possible the most disgusting of them all. At The Cross Roads: The Spacer's tale, the guy who Ben talked to before Han. Docter Death: The Tale of Docter Eveson and Ponda Baba: ever wonder what happened to the guy who picked a fight with Ben? Drawing the Maps of Peace: The Moisture Farmer's Tale, a sad, but uplifting story of people like Owen and Beru. One Last Night in the Mos Eisely Cantina: a fitting finale, and extemly haunting story. Anyway I would recommend this book to any Star Wars fan, especially those just getting into Star Wars since it provides very interesting backround.
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Summary: The basic idea itself was fabulous!
Review: Yes, it's Star Wars and yes, all the stories were good. But what I really loved was the idea of having so many different people writing so many different stories but having all of them have at least one sequnce in common (i.e. Ben and Luke's entering of the cantina and/or Ben's cutting down of the drunkards and/or Han blasting Greedo) putting them as side comments in the stories, then having the stories themselves fold over one another. I just thought this was a very excellent idea and I would love to see more good movies or books try it with their characters. I hope the are able to do something like this for Phantom Menace (they could probably do a TALES FROM MOS ESPA thing).
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