The Secret History of Star Wars
by Michael Kaminski
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Author: Michael KaminskiEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-18
ISBN: 0978465237
Number of pages: 626
Publisher: Legacy Books Press
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- ISBN13: 9780978465230
- Condition: New
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Book Review: Truth telling books don't get any better than this one
Summary: 5 Stars
(Since writing this review a few months back when I had not completey finished reading this book I HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK AND I wish to add a few comments,which see at end of this review, indicated by ADDITIONAL LATER COMMENTS)I remember how I felt back in 83, sitting in the darkened theater, when I heard Obi Wan give that lame excuse to Luke's question/comment about how he had said Vader killed his dad....I felt sick and betrayed by Lucas....I smelled a rat....I didn't fall for it....but I couldn't quite feel as certain about the matter as I would have liked. WAS I missing something? HAD Lucas NOT actually pulled a fast one on all of us after all???????? I wondered and these years BUT I was pretty sure this was a "stunt" that Georgie had pulled. This book I am reviewing settled the matter with the force of an atom bomb expoding. Lucas had indeed pulled a fast one. I have never felt so validated in all my life....and Lucas's credibility and integrity sank to the bottom of the list almost, for me anyway. This book is an amazingly impressive piece of research and integrity. If I could have I would have given it more stars than can fit on this page. The impact that those first TWO Star Wars films had in my life in the ensuing years thereafter is beyond description and that impact was in no small way plugged into the respect and trust I had in Lucas....but the third film with the above mentioned response to Luke's question bothered me greatly and disturbed me for a long time....UNTIL THIS BOOK. Now the haunting questions have been answered and as a result much of my initial respect and trust in Lucas is gone BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY this book has, in validating my initial suspicions, caused me to realize that YES, my mind....my guts....my intuition back then...and therefore NOW....was/is working JUST FINE....and I am feeling a lot of anger at the stunt/deception that Lucas pulled off in this matter. I do not like my intelligence being insulted and considering the "setting" in which this stunt of Lucas was pulled off in and that has been exposed in this fantastic book, I can only hope many many many people out there who had their minds messed with by Lucas in this matter, like me, will read this book. Great and loud, sky shattering "THANK YOUs" are in order for the author of this book....well done....WELL DONE,
(ADDITIONAL LATER COMMENTS: Now that I have finished this book - only last night, a few months after the above comments - I have to revise, SOMEWHAT, my above comments. Upon finishing reading this book - truly a masterpiece of investigation - I see, and much better understand, the much larger picture it paints than when I first wrote the above angry commentary on the story it presented, when I had not yet finished reading this book completely. Much of what I said above, late last fall, still remains largely valid for me but this book really painted a much larger and more complex picture of a truly large complex history of the Star Wars "saga" than I had expected/suspected and, likewise, a much more complex story about Lucas than I had expected. The result of all of this has been a tempering of my anger towards Lucas regarding the "changes" he made over time in the Father Skywalker/Darth Vader matter....ONLY TEMPERING my anger, NOT COMPLETELY REMOVING IT. This book is indeed, I do believe, the most fascinating book I have ever read...not only because of its "tale" but the way it was researched and written. Again I say, regarding this book and author.....WELL DONE.....WELL DONE indeed. Many many many stars for you!!!)
Summary of The Secret History of Star Wars
Star Wars is one of the most important cultural phenomena of the Western world. The tale of Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker has become modern myth, an epic tragedy of the corruption of a young man in love into darkness, the rise of evil, and the power of good triumphing in the end. But it didn?t start out that way. In this thorough account of one of cinema?s most lasting works, Michael Kaminski presents the true history of how Star Wars was written, from its beginnings as a science fiction fairy tale to its development over three decades into the epic we now know, chronicling the methods, techniques, thought processes, and struggles of its creator. For this unauthorized account, he has pored through over four hundred sources, from interviews to original scripts, to track how the most powerful modern epic in the world was created, expanded, and finalized into the tale an entire generation has grown up with.Movies Books
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