Star Wars: The Last Jedi

A cool idea having a collection of stories but different authors and some are better than others. Will likely pick up again and re-read at some point.

What an awesome and fun read!! I love Star Wars and have lost count how many times I have watched the movies. I received Empire Strikes Back as a birthday gift and quickly learned there was this one and had to grab it...because OCD and I can't read out of order

This was a lot of fun, with the caveat that you'd have to be fairly well invested in Star Wars trivia and lore to get anything worthwhile out of it. But, if you've ever wondered about the hidden lives of characters like the Mos Eisley bartender, the droid that malfunctioned outside of the Lars homestead, or the chief mechanic of Yavin IV, this is the book for you!

The collection of authors the book is comprised of are fantastic, as well - some of my favourite current sci-fi authors are here.

Reading Challenge category: a short story

I can't spoil this book, everyone already knows the story, it follows the story of Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) chronologically through the “points of view” of other characters, both seen and unseen.

Some were funny (the stormtroopers on Tatooine, Whills), some interesting (swamp monster) and some were intense (Alderaan when the Death Star arrived, the trench run). Obi Wan's story (Time of Death) was interesting, I loved how it alluded to the events of the prequels.

If you like Star Wars, I definitely recommend this book, I very much enjoyed it. Also, the audiobook was great, it had sound effects and great narration, check it out!

The funny stories are not just the best, but also profound: The Sith of Datawork, Born in the Storm, The Trigger, Of MSE-6 and Men and The Angle are all excellent and worth the read alone.

Many of the stories were not that interesting. Several were very entertaining takes on characters in the movie. I do hope they do this with other episodes but maybe only 1/2 as many. 40 stories @ 15hr audiobook related to a 2h movie is too much.

umm first of all I remember this when it was called Tales from Jabba's Palace??

This was a fun collection; like with any anthology (especially of this size), I enjoyed some more than others. Some of them made me weirdly emotional about background characters, it's fine.

Overall if this sounds like the kind of thing you would like, you would probably like this thing. If this sounds boring to you, that will probably be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

My faves were probablyyyy Mallory Ortberg (Admiral Motti), Glen Weldon (the mouse droid), Charles Soule (Lando), Rae Carson (R5-D4), and Claudia Gray (Qui-Gonn)'s.