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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Now the dark side of the Force threatens to overwhelm the light, and only an ancient Jedi prophecy stands between hope and doom for the entire galaxy.

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"While I am familiar with the story of the Phantom Menace, the novel did include enough details and additional scenes to make it interesting. Author Brooks did an admiral job describing the details. He even made the pod racing interesting, despite being my least favorite screen in the film. I read/listened to this book using immersion reading. The audio book did not feature either Marc Thompson or Jonathan Davis. It featured a new voice, Alexander Adams. Adams approached these from a more traditional, straight forward approach, reading the text and doing a few character voices. His Jar Jar was quite good and the narration was pleasant. Not much in the way of extra scenes, but the book does include a mini interview with the author and a great short story from James Luceno about Maul and a timeline of Star Wars books along with samples from books in different eras."

Product details Series Star Wars - images Unknown Binding Publisher Del Rey Books; Collectible Edition edition (1999) Language French ISBN-10 0345434110 ISBN-13 978-0345434111 ASIN B002HIPMCE

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Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace Terry Brooks 9780345434111 Books Reviews

• While I am familiar with the story of the Phantom Menace, the novel did include enough details and additional scenes to make it interesting. Author Brooks did an admiral job describing the details. He even made the pod racing interesting, despite being my least favorite screen in the film. I read/listened to this book using immersion reading. The audio book did not feature either Marc Thompson or Jonathan Davis. It featured a new voice, Alexander Adams. Adams approached these from a more traditional, straight forward approach, reading the text and doing a few character voices. His Jar Jar was quite good and the narration was pleasant. Not much in the way of extra scenes, but the book does include a mini interview with the author and a great short story from James Luceno about Maul and a timeline of Star Wars books along with samples from books in different eras.
• I was so excited to read this before the movie because I wanted to know what was going to happen and couldn't wait for the movie to come out. I was also impressed that unlike the Star Wars trilogy that had been released bound together, this actually read like a real book and not like a screenplay trying to pretend to be a book.
• I was only luke warm on the movie, which may explain why I was only lukewarm on the book. As with most beginning books/movies, the pace is sort of slow and not a lot happens. The most pivotal event in this book was the death of Qui-Gon at the hands of Darth Maul and the council's reluctant acceptance to let Obi-Wan train Anakin as a Jedi. I got the feeling that they only did it because Qui-Gon was killed.
  
  It also provided a good base for the character of Anakin. Something I found really ironic and kind of weird was how Anakin spent the night with a Tusken raider. Ironic because he slaughters the entire camp in the next episode. Jar-Jar was every bit as annoying in the book as in the movie. The other parts were kind of hum-drum.
  
  I did not like the characterization of Obi-Wan in this book. A bit of a snob, isn't he? There were points in the book where he was a little stuck up and other points where was just a plain jerk! Especially towards Anakin. In general the Obi-Wan in these new episodes contrasts greatly from the original Obi-Wan. The original Obi-Wan is a lot nicer, and more good natured.
  
  Also, Lucas and Brooks sort of contrasted their original first episode (now episode IV) with this book by introducing Qui-Gon. In the original episodes, Yoda was officially Obi-Wan's master. Did you notice how similar Anakin was to Qui-Gon? Both Anakin and Obi-Wan felt completely lost after after Qui-Gon's death. And let's face it Obi-Wan was in no way ready to train Anakin-he was far too young and did not have enough experience. (As usual, Yoda was right...annoying isn't it?) Even though it was destined that Obi-Wan and Anakin be brought together for the sake of a good movie let's face it Anakin would not have turned to the dark side if Qui-Gon has been his mentor instead of Obi-Wan.
• There are extra scenes that are not in the movie, characters thoughts are revealed and there is extra dialogue. I liked the movie but the book gives insights into characters, actions and scenes that are not possible in the movie.
  There is a good pace to the book and I found it enjoyable.
  This edition also has a short story Darth Maul End Game. This expands Darth Mauls' backstory and fills in gaps in the film with what he was doing 'offscrene'. In this story we see more of Dath Sidious and what he expects from Darth Maul.
  This is also an enjoyable story
• I'm a huge Star Wars fan and never really had read one of the books that were adapted from the movie until this one. I remember reading the first time I did back when the movie had just came out and I can remember how I spent every second I could reading this book. If you're a star wars fan like me you'll definitely enjoy the book. I love this book as it makes the movie even better as the book goes into more detail of the story line and plot that you just felt like there was something missing there in the movie. The book is very well written by Terry Brooks the detail and the thoughtfulness that was put into this book is just amazing! I love to read this over and over still!