Books

‘Fever Dream’: This time it’s personal for Special Agent Pendergast (Book review)

“Fever Dream,” the latest Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child novel, opens with FBI Special Agent Pendergast and his wife, Helen, hunting a lion in Africa. I

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Douglas Preston makes a geographical ‘Impact’ on this reader (Book review)

I don’t really like traveling. I like the idea of having been someplace, but the actual process of traveling is stressful to me. I’m always

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‘Star Wars’ veteran Allston gets his writing groove back in ‘Fate of the Jedi: Backlash’ (Book review)

Aaron Allston became my favorite “Star Wars” author when I read his first book, “X-Wing: Wraith Squadron,” back in 1998. Allston, taking the “X-Wing” baton

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Joe Schreiber mows down zombies in a galaxy far, far away in ‘Star Wars: Death Troopers’ (Book review)

If you’re in the right mood, movies about some guy mowing down a bunch of reanimated corpses — Peter Jackson’s “Dead Alive” comes to mind

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Paul Kemp makes impressive ‘Star Wars’ debut with ‘Crosscurrent’ (Book review)

Now that 5,000 years of “Star Wars” lore have been mapped out, from the earliest days of the Sith and Jedi to the generation after

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‘Star Wars: Darth Bane – Dynasty of Evil’ shows that the Rule of Two makes no sense whatsoever (Book review)

Ki Adi-Mundi (in “The Phantom Menace”): “The Sith have been extinct for a millennium.” Yoda (later in the same movie): “Two there are always, a

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A lot more than 7 great words in George Carlin’s autobiography (Book review)

I wouldn’t be capable of starting a successful religion; I don’t have the requisite charisma, ambition or ability to deceive. But I do have my

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6 ways J.D. Salinger influenced modern pop culture (Book commentary)

Like everyone, I think “Catcher in the Rye” is a brilliant book. I think J.D. Salinger’s other three books (actually compilations of his magazine short

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5 random questions for which I have no good answer (Commentary)

1. In “Return of the Jedi,” when Luke and Leia swing to safety, what is the rope attached to? It can’t be attached to the

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Karen Traviss brings her clones into the brave new world of the Empire in ‘Imperial Commando: 501st’ (Book review)

The “Star Wars” movies are essentially the story of the Skywalker family, but there is so much more happening on a larger scale (the Clone

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