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MattMongoose
Posted February 7, 2012
I'm not a massive Star Wars geek, but I do remember the excitement when I was eleven and the first movie came out, and we all spent every penny we had on Star Wars stuff - figures, bubble gum cards, and everything else. This book brought back all the joy I experienced back then, and I found myself reliving a lot of happy memories. It's a must-read for fans, and a piece of feelgood nostalgia for those of us of the right age.
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Posted February 7, 2012
It's like a little chunk of delicious Star Wars nostalgia. Highly recommended for anyone who grew up with the legend.
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Posted August 11, 2011
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Overview
Opening that first Darth Vader figure and putting him in a Landspeeder. Imagining a snowy elementary school playground as the wastes of Hoth. Seeing Return of the Jedi on opening night.Moments like these - and a galaxy more - make up three decades of "Memoirs of a Star Wars Geek." Author John Booth takes the reader from a childhood packed with Star Wars guys (never "action figures") and Christmas wishes both fulfilled and unrealized, through the years when the trilogy lay dormant to the mainstream public's eye, and into an age of seeing George Lucas' universe as an adult while ...