Star Wars, Episode I - The Phantom Menace (4 Different Cover Set) (Hardcover)

by Terry Brooks (Author)

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Product Description
Terry Brooks's novel, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, is being released with four distinctive covers--each featuring a different character from the film. This special collector's pack gives you a full set of four books with one copy of each of the four different covers. Each embossed front cover features a different Episode 1 character: Anakin Skywalker, Queen Amidala, Darth Maul, or Obi-Wan Kenobi. (Available May 3)

**Please note: the content of each book is the same, but the covers are different.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 547 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books; 4 Cover edition (May 1999)
• ISBN-10: 1580601308
• ISBN-13: 978-1580601306
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,461,045 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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• This is item 1 in The Star Wars Movie Novel Series.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars TPM Novelization: Special Edition, June 2, 1999

By A Customer

The storyline is ok, clearly lifted from the film and pressed into service by Brooks' adequate talent. Some insights into character development (completely unaddressed by the film), but I do have to give a single star to the totally unnecessary 4-different cover gimmick. Perhaps soon we'll have chapters and extra covers altered/added/subtracted for the re-release of the Novelization: Special Edition.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This poor novelization is the REAL 'Phantom Menence'!, May 28, 1999

By A Customer

It felt as if Terry Brooks had to get this one out the door in a hurry. Read it only if you're truly a 'hard-core' Star Wars fanatic, otherwise just go see the movie again. Even four different book covers couldn't save this one!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A cruel joke compared to the original three books, May 24, 1999

By A Customer

This book is far weaker than the original three books, mainly because the story and dialogue is more shallow, mundane and cliche. I couldn't decide whether this book was meant as a parody of the original three, a comedy, a Disney story, or a Power Rangers episode. None of the subtlety, depth, sustained focus on universal human themes, and slow revelation that made the original three books so special is present in this story. The only thing good I can say about the book is that it Brooks had no choice but to strip away the orgy of cartoonish special effects that created such an incoherent, ugly galaxy in the movie.