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Millennium Falcon star Wars
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James Luceno
Kayla Rhodes
, August 03, 2013
This is probably one of the best Star Wars books that I have ever read. I read it in just 2 days because it was too good to put down. I really liked how it explored the history of the Millennium Falcon and it's previous owners before Han Solo and Lando Calrissian. I also liked how the book basically revolved around 4 main characters, Han Solo, Leia Organa Solo, Allana Solo, and one of the previous owners of the Millennium Falcon. Han Solo is my favorite Star Wars character so that is another reason why I liked this book so much.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3)
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J K Rowling
Kayla Rhodes
, August 03, 2013
This is my second favorite Harry Potter book. I've probably read this book about 3 or 4 times since 4th grade when I first read it. Like all the other Harry Potter books, it's really hard to put down; I can read it for hours and not get bored.
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Tales From The Mos Eisley Cantina
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Kevin J Anderson
Kayla Rhodes
, August 03, 2013
I read this book while I was on vacation in Sun River, OR. Even though I was on vacation I probably read this book at an average of 3 hours a day because it was really good. My favorite story in this book is the one about Greedo because since Greedo is killed by Han Solo in the original Star Wars movie, he is not in many of the Star Wars books, so I did't know much about him besides the fact that he's a Rodian bounty hunter.
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Rise of the Sith Star Wars Omnibus
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Various
Kayla Rhodes
, August 03, 2013
I liked how this book focused on some of the Jedi from the prequel trilogy because I don't know as much about them since there have been more books written taking place after the events of the original Star Wars trilogy. I also liked how this book took place a few years before The Phantom Menace because the only other books that do that is the children's series, Jedi Apprentice, by Jude Watson that's about Obi-Wan Kenobi's apprenticeship to Qui-gon Jinn.
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Making of Star Wars The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
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J W Rinzler
Kayla Rhodes
, August 03, 2013
This is one of the best non-fiction Star Wars books. It tells the most in depth story about the creation of Star Wars and the making of the first Star Wars movie. The creation of Star Wars is really a huge success story because nobody, including George Lucas, thought Star Wars was going to succeed, when really it was going to become the most enduring movie of all time because even now, 33 years later, there are still Star Wars Celebrations held every 2 years or so and more and more of the younger generation is being introduced to it. This book even included all of the drafts (summarized) of the original Star Wars movie so the reader can see how the story evolved to what it is today. This was an awesome book!
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Warriors Omen of the Stars 06 The Last Hope
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Erin Hunter
Kayla Rhodes
, August 03, 2013
This was a great conclusion to the whole Warriors series. I can't say much about why it was such a great conclusion though because that would ruin it for people who haven't read this book yet. All I will say though is that this book ties all four of the Warriors series together and gives a new meaning to the fulfillment of the prophecy from the very first book, Into the Wild, "Fire alone can save our Clan". You may have thought that that prophecy had already been fulfilled in the original Warriors series, but it actually wasn't until this book. There is also a really surprising ending that involves one of ThunderClan's old enemies. I will not mention who it is though or how that problem is resolved so I will not spoil the book. I will not say more about the plot of this book than that. All I can say is that this, in my opinion, is definitely one of the best Warriors books that have been written so far.
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Being Wrong Adventures in the Margin of Error
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Kathryn Schulz
Kayla Rhodes
, August 03, 2013
There are a lot of things wrong with this book, even though it is a book about being wrong. Even though I had to read this book because it is this year's freshman focus book for WSU, I went into it with an open mind thinking it might be somewhat interesting. I was wrong. The book got progressively more aggravating as I got further into it. It is very preachy. It also subtly contradicts itself in the way the author, Kathryn Schulz presents her information. She tells the reader that no one can ever really know anything for certain so they should always leave room for doubt, yet the way that she presents her own knowledge does not support this. She just says that she knows things which is exactly what she tells the reader not to do. She also doesn't suggest that her theories may be wrong in any way and outright says that other people's theories that she cites in this book are indisputably wrong, which again is exactly what she tells people reading this book not to do. These things also don't support her assertion that there is no real right and wrong. It seems that she may think that that only applies to other people's beliefs, theories, and knowledge, but not hers. In my opinion, she is being a hypocrite. Besides the author being a hypocrite, there are also other things in this book that are extremely aggravating. She tries to improve her credibility by using bigger words that one would mainly find in academic texts like this one. The thing is though that she repeatedly uses the word, f***, in this book and not within quotation marks (except for one time when she was quoting her own sister) implying that it is her own word choice. In my opinion that damages her credibility because she can't think of a better word to use than f***. Schulz may have used this word thinking that by doing this, her book might appeal to teenagers and college students because all teenagers and college students use that word, right? Wrong. This may be an example of stereotyping which is another thing that Schulz specifically tells the reader not to do so again she is being a hypocrite. But there is always the possibility that her family just uses that word, especially since she quoted her sister using it. Even considering that though, at least in my eyes, it damages her credibility. The last thing that I want to bring up is the apparent lack of a good editor for this book. Every instance when the author was expressing that something belonged to someone and that someone's name ended with an "s", she would use an "'s" when she should only use an "'" (example: "Ross's" on page 49 is incorrect, it should be Ross'). This is one of the most basic rules of English grammar that everyone should learn in elementary school but apparently either Schulz, her editor, or both of them were out sick that day and never learned it. Another thing that I picked up, mostly because I was yearbook editor and so got really good at noticing glaring errors like this one. On some of the quotations in this book there was a starting quotation mark but not an ending one. It was only obvious the quote had ended because it was the end of the paragraph and no starting quotation mark was at the begging of the following paragraph, nor a ending quotation mark anywhere else on the page. This is just an example of sheer laziness on the editor's part. He or she must not have read this book that closely at all, or only looked at it once and missed a few things (which is understandable) but never double checked their work which all editors should do. I would highly not recommend reading this book unless you absolutely had to like I did because it was assigned to you to read. This book basically consists of the author rambling on and on and repeating herself multiple times, just in different ways. Nevertheless, it gets old pretty quickly. I only forced (and yes "forced" is a good word for it) myself to read the whole book because I had to for college. If I hadn't have had to read it for college, I would have quit reading it after the first fifty pages..... it's that unbearable. Maybe I didn't like it because I am not interested in psychology (from other reviews I've read on Goodreads, a lot of people do like it for whatever reason), I don't know. I just wouldn't advise reading it for fun.
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