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"Star Wars": the Complete Visual Dictionary: The Complete Visual Dictionary (Star Wars)
ReviewsMy boys spend hours poring over this! Review date: 2008-10-03 Rating: 10 out of 10 This has proved a big hit with my boys (aged 8 and 9) and our copy is starting to look battered from too much use! They are into the Star Wars films and PS games, and have found the level of detail in the book to be very informative. However, they are both advanced readers, and while you can enjoy looking at the pictures, there is a lot of text and if your child can't read fluently they will miss out on lots of interesting details. Great Pictures, Dissappointing Text Review date: 2008-07-24 Rating: 6 out of 10 Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries) The pictures in the book are great. The text leaves much to be desired. The text is hightly repetitious. It is like a different person wrote each page, but didn't read the pages that the others wrote. If your technically oriented, don't read the text, as it is better to believe in the illusion that the things will work rather than to know that they wont. In addition, page 104 of the copy sent by Amazon, the ink had bled in the printing press. Fortunatly the image was only slightly smuged, but the text under the bleed is illegible - but no great loss from my point of view. If you have no other books on star wars then this one will provide enough information to remind you of the characters so you can talk to you kids about them. If, like us, you want lots of pictures, the book is great. But given the ink bleed on page 104, it is a book you may like to preview in a shop rather than buy on-line as there appears to be a quality control issue for the publisher. Not So Complete. Review date: 2008-02-09 Rating: 10 out of 10 With the Classic DK line up of previous books and high standard from them, you would expect the Complete Star Wars Visual Dictionary to be fully laden with information from all the previous books. Alas, this is not the case but it does include the Visual Dictionaries from Episodes 1 to 3 and a shorter version for Episodes 4 to 6 (original Trilogy). Having said that, it does have some extra information on R2D2 and the Sarlacc but misses out on the Y-wings, A and B-Wings as well as the Empire craft but since these are on earlier books it does not matter as much. It is still great fun to read and to look at and a Star Wars fan will love it and it will get you in the mood to see the films again. I also loved the Cutaway of a Lighsaber and comparing the Lightsabers of Episode 3 and 4 (Obi Wan's and Anakin's with Luke's are the same and should be). I think that the same detail on the Trilogy would have made this more enjoyable but I am a purist in this matter. Even though the latter part has lost some of the information and the earlier is the same, you do get some extra snippets of information that were cut from the film at a later point (Luke watching the battle above his skies of the Blockade Runner being captured by the Imperial Destroyer). The Clone Troops and Stormtroopers info are very good, as well as the Characters but again you will not find out too much about Han Solo, Chewy or the Later life of Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi. In this book, you get to see the downfall of the Galactic Republic (it was already falling in Episode 1) to it's downfall and the rise of the Rebel Allience and final fall of the Empire. If you can't get hold of the originals (or they are too expensive to buy sperately) then buy a copy today. A must for a Star Wars fan Review date: 2007-02-09 Rating: 10 out of 10 This is an essential item for any young (or older)fan of Star Wars. The images are superb quality and the amount of information is exhaustive. A really beautiful addition to any bookshelf and worth every penny spent. Product Details/SpecificationsAuthors: Ryder Windham Recording label: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd Manufacturer: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd EAN: 9781405316019 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 1405316012 Number of pages: 272 Publication date: 2006-10-05 Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown)
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