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My Best Friend is a Wookiee: One Boy's Journey to Find His Place in the Galaxy Hardcover – September 18, 2010

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In a galaxy far, far away a geek was born.

So begins the real-life hero's journey of Jedi Knight wannabe Tony Pacitti. In this hilarious coming-of-age memoir, Tony shows how Star Wars has served as a source of comfort, guidance, and wisdom in his life. From the first thunderous boom of John William's score, seven-year-old Tony takes on Star Wars as his moral compass, his mentor, even his psychologist. Like his hero Luke Skywalker, Tony must then overcome Stormtrooper bullies, Lando turncoats, and Emperor Palpatine authority figures and embrace his own geekiness to grow into a man worthy of riding shotgun with Chewie.

With the sense of humor of Han Solo, the willpower of Luke Skywalker, and the wisdom of a (much younger) Yoda, Pacitti uses the Force to follow his heart, overcome obstacles, and live a life worthy of a Jedi knight, endearing Star Wars fans everywhere in the process!

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256 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Adams Media
Publication date

September 18, 2010
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5.5 x 0.91 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-10

1440505837
ISBN-13

978-1440505836
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In a galaxy right under his nose, a pants-peeing boy of seven experienced a rebirth while watching The Empire Strikes Back. From this "first kiss" a lifelong love affair begins, and Pacitti is entertainingly adept at finding a Star Wars parallel for almost any life experience, including his Jabba-like, playground-ruling enemy from second grade. Just as Luke Skywalker struggled to become a Jedi, Pacitti fights the dark side of depression and heartbreak, finding solace in a distant galaxy where the good guys don't always win. Though the recent prequel trilogy ("six years and seven-ish hours of crap" nowhere near justified by 20 minutes of "kind of neat") proves to be his ultimate heartbreak. Pacitti's prose is often perfunctory and, though he earns his nerd badge, bloated plot summaries and snarky commentary tarnish its shine. But when he taps into his personal experience Pacitti writes with honesty, enthusiasm, and occasional hilarity. Many a Star Wars fan will find charm in this familiar story; those who don't know their Wars from their Trek may be carried along by a deeply-examined connection to pop culture. (Sept.)
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About the Author

Tony Pacitti has written for southcoast247.com as a features writer and video game reviewer and has had his short science fiction published at 365tomorrows.com. He has been the writer for the online comics RoboPlanet and The Silencer at Pandemonium Comics.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Adams Media (September 18, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1440505837
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1440505836
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.91 x 8.5 inches

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D. Pugatch

A Life Changing Experience We Can All Relate To

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2010

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Tony wrote a coming of age story that any of us can relate to. From the trying to figure yourself out through puberty and discovering girls to hanging on to old childhood pastimes while becoming an adult in college. He writes with a style that comes off as conversation over coffee rather than a book or lecture. How many times while reading page after page I thought, "that happened to me!" From the girl holding you back that all your friends hated to the girl I didn't have the balls to kiss after watching a movie in bed with (her name will be nameless since she is a close friend of Tony's.) I have had the honor to go to the same college, write for the same newspaper, and SouthCoast 24/7 as well, all years before Tony but our experiences were the same, he inspired me to think about writing a memoir myself. Our love for Star Wars always in our hearts, how can we not relate to him. He writes from the heart and naturally that's where it affects us the readers most. It is refreshing to hear another fanboy HATED the prequel trilogy as much as I did. Anyone whom grew up in the 80s or 90s can relate to his story even if they weren't a Star Wars fan. Well done Tony, and please write us another book.

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joe

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2018

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One of my favorite book!

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Christopher Hockenbrock

well written and funny

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2011

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A true fanboy tale! This book brought back so many vivid memories of childhood! If you're a fanboy/fangirl this is a must read!

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shevawn

Not Just for Star Wars Fans...

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2010

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At first I was skeptical that I wouldn't understand this book. I am not a huge Star Wars fan. I haven't even seen all the movies. I was pretty sure this book might be all about Darth Vader and Storm Troopers, and this fanboy's crush on Princess Leia.
I was pleasantly surprised at how relatable this book was to someone such as myself. Tony shares his experiences with growing up geek, which is something I think most people have dealt with at one point or another in their lives. From mud throwing bullies, to awkward teenage romances, this book really shows someone growing into their nerdy-ness, and being completely comfortable with it. A hilarious memoir that anyone who is geek (or closet geek for that matter) will love.

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THE REAL Nerf boy 10

unfortunately, we have awful themes in this book.

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2020

reviewed by THE REAL nerf boy 10.
Before downloading this book, I looked at the reviews. They were a little mixed, but nevertheless, I gave it a shot.
For this book, I remember skipping one or two chapters, but not huge plot-shaping ones.
The book starts out nice, with the potential to become a moving coming-of-age story that tugs on our heartstrings and make us in tears by the end. sadly, we did not get that.
At the beggining, we see a child who was bullied, and forced upon with peer pressure. This book is actualy a true story, so I was thinking of how grateful I am for my life.
Unfortunately, the good parts of the book stop there.
we learn that the first star wars film he saw was the empire strikes back (which I love for it's debut of boba fett!) and even the words "a long time ago, in a galaxy far,far away…" pulled him in. Then, we see his awe at the brass words "star wars" but then, we get a description of his awe that is extremly suggjestive.
"If far far away was a kiss, the theme was my c**rry getting p**ped. our first sexual reference, and sadly, not our last.
Later in the book, (in his high school) we see a novel sex scence.
Good grief, who approved that?
Fortuneatley, I missed that chapter, but the preceding one gave me more than enough details about what had happened.
And left and right and in the middle, we get profanity. swears. bad words. cusses. Whatever you want to call them, they're there.
a**. s***. son of a bit**. freaking and crap are thrown in as well. even the god forbidden, if anything not this, please don't let it be true, nononononodon'tsayit! f***.
Man oh man.
I really do not belive this is appropriate for any child, amd maybe even some adults.
dude, I want my time back!

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Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2013

A journey of a young boy that tries to find his place in the galaxy using Star Wars as his guidelines you could say. It is the coolest book ever! I mean, almost everything this kid went through in class, trying to get through high school and used Star Wars as his guidelines is sort of what I went through. I used some of Star Wars to help me out in some situations that I was in, but I mostly used Star Trek: The Original Series. You know the one with Captain Kirk along with Spock and McCoy. That’s Star Trek.

I get very touchy with these Star Trek series. Many people get confused when I mention my love of Star Trek. They think I’m talking about The Next Generation and I have to remind them, oh no. No, no, no. I am SOO not into the whole Picard and next generation and the Borg. To me, there weren’t that many adventures taken place outside the ship. Almost everything was done within the ship, and it can get boring from time to time. Now with the Original Series, you don’t get none of that. A lot of the shows were staged outside the ship and showed you a variety of aliens that only Gene could imagine them back in 1966. Then it was amazing, unreal on the things they could do. Now, we have Predator, Alien great special effects on them but I still believe that the first coming of aliens was the Star Trek: Original Series were and still are the greatest.

But after Star Trek, my father actually got me going with Star Wars, I was hooked. Everything about those movies I loved. Now I’m talking about the absolute first Star Wars movie (of course). The New Hope, Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Now my favorite is the Return of the Jedi, mostly the fights but I thought they were great. Now the newer movies, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith are all very good and it leads up to the older series, but it just doesn’t do justice for the older series. Now, I love to read the Star Wars books, that either leads up to the Phantom Menace or after the Return of the Jedi and these authors do a wonderful job on pointing out some key characters that you weren’t shown or throw in some loops that you have to sort of catch up but fully understand if you are a fan. Love them!!!

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