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William Shakespeare's Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #4)

Ian Doescher

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Aug 01, 2013 Amanda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sci-fi, 5-stars, poetry, favorites, recs-geeky, tie-ins, shakespearean, scifi-space-opera, star-wars

Hilarious. Hi-lar-i-ous.

I think anyone who loves Star Wars and/or Shakespeare will get an immense kick out of this book. There are dozens of highlighted passages all over my book(/Kindle) and notes attached to them. It's wonderful getting to see the author makes asides with knowledge we know having seen Episodes 1-6 as a populace.

We can see where Beru and Obi-Won are both coming from with so much more drastic clarity, as well as asides from Vadar that reference his entire life. We can cringe a ...more

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Feb 19, 2014 Debbie rated it liked it

Shelves: humor, sciencefiction

Star Wars retold in iambic pentameter with lots of humor and Shakespearean references galore. Never having been a huge fan of Star Wars (I'm definitely more of a Trekkie) there were sections of this book where I lost interest. It was mainly the battle scenes where I found myself skimming or zoning out. That said, this was a clever idea that was, overall, well-executed. I particularly enjoyed the references to Shakespeare's plays and the robot humor.

A favorite quote:

“A plague on 3PO for action s ...more

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