Review:Any one remember the little old lady looking at her hamburger and asking where's the BEEF? There was another story about the restaurant manager asking a patron. How did you find your Streak sir? With that the gentleman said well I just picked up the pickle and their it was.

So I might say Steak=Honor=Beef. So gimmie da BEEF.

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Review:If you can accept the premise that magic rules the universe this book will delight you. The hero is well written and somewhat self conscious. The book itself moves from event to event without a lot of blood and guts and the good guys win. The BAD guys are all human, and the world's are not invaded by aliens, but the book is full of pirates and criminal syndicates. If outer space works like the Carribean in the 17th century, you are going to love this book; add magic and you have a fine swashbu... Read more

Review:This book is like a Stefon (Bill Hader) skit from Saturday Night Live in book form. Spoilers to follow.

If you want a Leering characters, Droids with Wookie arms, L3 fornication, and a brief discussion on a droid orgy then this is the book for you.

This story also has the worst MacGuffin since Kevin J. Anderson stopped ruining books with escalating preposterous plot devices.

The audio book switches between 3 Narrators, one of which is the author who is not a trained profes... Read more

Review:I read the Kindle edition of Thrawn: Alliances.

As part of the new Disney canon for Star Wars, Thrawn: Alliances is the follow-up to Zahn's previous Star Wars: Thrawn novel.

Pairing Vader and Thrawn together, Emperor Palpatine sends the duo on a mission to investigate a disturbance in the Force in the Unknown Regions. Intertwined is another story in which Jedi General Anakin is on a personal ... Read more

Review:Unfortunately this storyline continues to meander and muddle around. Each chapter is repetitious to not only those who had read the series since the start, but also within the book itself. Each characters' thoughts are repeated over and over again. Yes, we understand that Dar is upset about losing his wife and unable to see his son, but how does the main storyline progress with the title of the Clone Commandos suppose to be part of Vader's own? Do they actually perform a mission with Vader?<... Read more

Review:Given the importance of this, the intro to the New EU, I am also baffled that they picked such a poor writer. Did Chuck Wertig grow up reading only text messages? Or Tweets? Maybe it's supposed to be all edgy-n-angular, but what it is just lame. What happened to the authors who did a much better job on the old EU? I heard a rumor that The Mouse felt that they were too expensive and so went with cheaper options. To the story, I guess this is the background? Kinda pedestrian. Maybe only deserved b... Read more

Review:The title of "Battlefront" on the cover is false advertisement; this is easily the most boring novel of all the new Star Wars books. It's not a poorly written book by any means, but it's certainly not what you would expect as a followup to the action packed Battlefront: Twilight Company. This book is supposed to introduce us to the Empire's most elite special forces unit, and yet in 300+ pages they (minor spoilers ahead) barely manage to take out a tiny Rebel cell of around 10 people (end of min... Read more

Review:STAR WARS: PHASMA is a book which I think really shows what the biggest problem with current Star Wars tie-in fiction is, which is the fact nothing is allowed to happen. This is the life story of Captain Phasma, the cowardly but dangerous leader of the First Order's Stormtroopers who brought down the shields of Starkiller Base when someone pointed a gun at her.
The entirety of the book is meant to reconcile the fact she's meant to be terrifying but rolled on her fellow Imperials at the first ... Read more

Review:Babylon's Ashes really grew on me. Like the rest of the Expanse (as individual books, and as a series, and as a TV series), Babylon's Ashes is slow to start but picks up a lot of momentum. It is, on the one hand, super dismal. For, like economics values of "dismal." The economic landscape of the solar system being what it is, people are motivated to do terrible things to each other.

That's part of the mastery of the writers. Daniel Abraham and Ty Franc ("James S.A. Corey") adeptly show us... Read more

Review:This is an excellent book for anyone who wants to learn more about the Bataan Death March in Philippines during the Second World War. Most people, have focused on Iwo Jima, Peleliu, and Okinawa to learn more about the ordeals of soldiers in World War II and have often "forget" about these brave souls in Philipines. In "Ghost Soldiers", Hampton Sides gives these forgotten soldiers, voices.
This book deals with both the successful rescue effort by the 6th Ranger and the ordeal of the prisoners ... Read more