Rogue Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing Series, Book 1)

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Summary: A VERY VERY GOOD BOOK
Review: This book and the rest of the series are some of the best Star Wars books ever written. I think they could make a pretty good movie...

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Summary: Star Wars at it's best!
Review: I'm a big Star Wars fan, that goes without saying. I found X-wing: Rogue Squadron and the rest of the X-wing series (minus Wraith Squadron) to be the only series up there with Zahn's. Stackpole really knew what he was doing when he wrote this book. A great introduction, that puts you right into the cockpit, which is one of the best I've ever seen. However, this isn't just a book filled with space battles. It shows the struggles and pressures of many very well defined characters, and their eventual trip into the legendary Rogue Squadron. The book definitely showed potential; if there were no sequels made, it would've been one of the best (if not THE best) standalone Star Wars book, but it's great feature is that it expanded so perfectly into the largest Star Wars series yet (besides the young adult and children's books). Although I haven't read the preceeding X-wing Comics, I still understood what was going on perfectly. The plot was great, the characters even better. The writing style was one of the best I've seen yet, in a Star Wars book. I've read the majority of the books (almost all besides the newest ones) and I have to say that Rogue Squadron intrigued me the most. I found it even more interesting than Zahn's trilogy, and that a very great honor to bestow. Michael Stackpole is possibly my personal favorite author of all time, and Rogue Squadron is a great example of his skill.

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Summary: Stackpole is an excellent writer.
Review: Well I must say, he really is a very good writer. His battles are so well described that you get the feeling that you are right there watching. The characters were believable as well. He also killed off some of his characters which was great in my opinion. He is showing everyone that in war even the good guys have fatalities. This all makes the book more realistic, and that much funner to read. I recommend this to any Star Wars fan.

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Summary: It was good but i've read better.
Review: I liked the originals all alot, same with Shadows of the Empire, they all get 5 but this wasn't really as good or deserving as they were.

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Summary: a great book!
Review: I thought this was a great book exept small but important reasons like how the storys mostly about corran horn and wedge antilles and hardly has any of the other cooler charaters in it like nawara ven, and the space battles were so confusing I didn't know what was going on, and ysanne isard seemed like a really interesting charater but she was hardly in it. Other than those I thought this book was cool

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Summary: Not the best, but not the worst
Review: The book was okey, but it wasn't spectacular. I thought that it was boring at times, but it had a few good moments. Compared to cooler Star Wars books, this sucked, but compared to crappier ones, it rocked.

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Summary: I thought this was the best in the X-Wing Serises
Review: This was a very good book. It was the best in the X-Wing serises except for The Bacta War and Wrath Squadron which I haven't read

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Summary: A departure from the main trio proves suprisingly good.
Review: An exciting and original book starring Wedge Antilles and a new pilot, Corran Horn as well as plenty of new and interesting characters, and the beginnings of betrayal. Not only that, but it is a refreshing departure from Han, Leia and Luke. The new slate provides an insight into semi-normal life and freedom to develope new plot lines. My complaint is the space battles. They are exciting and essential, but very difficult to follow. They all melt into each other. Besides that detail, the characters are realistic with human feelings and characteristic mannerisms. It gets so that you are genuinely sad when one of them gets killed. Overall a good book, with interesting plotlines and likeable people.

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Summary: Absolutly Great
Review: A Great book. It had plenty of space battles(which is what I like)Very fast paced. I really hate conversation parts of star wars books. These conversations were interesting. I would reccomend this book to anyone.

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Summary: It was so-so
Review: This book was kind of long. Some parts I didn't understand. In the book the main character, Corran, gets left behind on an Imperial planet. The book wasn't quite well enough written that I didn't catch that detail until it happened in the story. Also, it takes a while for the story to get started, and it wasn't until the last quarter of the book that I was glued to it. But, when I got glued to it, it was permanent.