Tales from Jabba's Palace : Star Wars

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Summary: A good book...
Review: ...this is a good book, but some of the scenes from "Return of the Jedi" are not captured in their full spirit, and the one of Leia strangling Jabba even becomes redundant after a while (and it's kind of hard to believe that THAT many people were in plain view of the event, but all either wanted Jabba dead anyway, or flat out didn't care).

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Summary: A good book...
Review: ...this is a good book, but some of the scenes from "Return of the Jedi" are not captured in their full spirit, and the one of Leia strangling Jabba even becomes redundant after a while (and it's kind of hard to believe that THAT many people were in plain view of the event, but all either wanted Jabba dead anyway, or flat out didn't care).

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Summary: Jabba
Review: A good anthology. I liked the tales of Boba Fett, Oola, the Weequays, and Salacious Crumb. But the other stories were just Star Wars mishmash. The epilogue was cool.

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Summary: The reason why Kevin J. Anderson should not die
Review: After Darksaber and the Jedi Academy Trilogy, I started thinking, 'Kevin J. Anderson must die.'I don't think Anderson is a bad writer. He handles the classic good guys well, and he's added some great details to the Star Wars universe. But when he writes his epic Star Wars novels, he fails to put in the essential base for a good epic: cool, smart, talented, imaginative bad guys. (Not to mention he ruins the characters of Mara Jade and Pellaeon, and makes one superweapon too many.)However, in this anthology, Anderson saves himself from the wrath of Star Wars fans like me. Not only does Anderson do an excellent job of maintaining the continuity between the Tales, he actually writes something good.'The Rancor Keeper's Tale' is not epic, but perhaps small-scale, minor character short stories are something Anderson should stick to. You finally have a story where you care about the main character, emotional outbursts are justified, and clever people do clever things.The book on a whole is probably not worth five stars, but I give it five to balance out the negative numbers I gave to Anderson's other Star Wars books. Congratulations, Mr. Anderson, you just saved your own life.

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Summary: Jabba: Behind the Scenes
Review: Although most of us know that Jabba is dead, the novel Star Wars: Tales from Jabba's Palace gives fans a great look back into that time. Jabba's palace was filled with so many intriguing characters that were not given the proper introduction. The book basically covers some of the major characters people have seen on Jabba's floating Palace. From the smallest character to the largest, they all have a story. The dancer who is jerked about by Jabba, Oola, had a sad tale telling of her prison at the palace. Everyday she was beaten and battered and still made to dance. Another story that stood out was the tale of Mara Jade. Mara is one of the more intriguing characters in the Star Wars universe because of her background. In this novel, Mara is captured while on a mission to kill Luke Skywalker. The story is well written and gives a better look into Mara's history before the events that occur in the New Trilogy written by the same author Timothy Zahn. Some of the characters in the novel that have stories are later followed up in the end with an epilogue. The epilogue tells about what happens to the characters after what occurs in the stories. It is sort of a prize in the end. All of the stories are well written with excellent descriptions. "A Boy and a Monster: The Rancor Keeper's Tale" is one of the longer tales in the novel. The tale is more of a family story about a boy and his pet. The author mainly wrote about how the boy had feelings for his pet and how he took care of it and mourned during the animal's time of pain. The stories are not cluttered with poetic devices, but are clearly told. I enjoyed the novel because of the content. It did not drag on about one specific story, but instead, jumped around to different characters perspectives aboard Jabba's Palace. I definitely recommend it to Star Wars fans, it is a great novel to reference to.

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Summary: Brilliant......but.......
Review: Brilliant.... BUY THIS BOOK NOW!!!!!! my fave tale is Boba Fetts, it is about 10 times better than all the others, i love that bit right at the start of his tale when he kills his rival bounty hunter, it really takes you to his ship.

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Summary: Great Book- But Where Is Jabba's Tale?
Review: Everyone Has A Tale- except Jabba. The only disapointment other than that is Boba's tale. I like Bubo's tale, especially siince I didn't even know he was intelligent. The Weequays who worshipped the magic 8 Ball was a trip, though it remained unclear what caused the sail barge to blow.

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Summary: okay if taken in one gulp
Review: For the most part, these collected stories are fairly dry, trying to cram as many semi-interesting facts as possible about some generally obscure characters into tales that cover a very brief and therefore restricting period in the Star Wars history. However, if read consecutively, some common threads appear concerning ongoing political machinations and interrelated subplots. Richer than "Mos Eisley," not as much depth as "Bounty Hunters."

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Summary: One plot, more than 15 stories
Review: Great narration, the writing is very consistent and each and every tale is tightly fit within the others, that may be a problem though, because every story has the same plot in it and you end up reading some passages over and over in every story, anyway the round of applause here goes to Kevin Anderson for the hard work it must've been to make every tale fit within the context of the other, every author polished their work to the extreme, and while some tales are more interesting than others, you'll enjoy all of them.

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Summary: Perspectives of popular and not-so-popular SW characters
Review: Great telling of points of view for characters in Jabba's Palace about the same series of events.