My Best Friend is a Wookie
by Tony Pacitti
I read through the reviews on Goodreads just now, and there seem to be 2 camps of people who reviewed it: those that loved it, and those that were "meh."
Those that were "meh" said that it had flaws with the story, the perspective was off, and uninteresting.
Ok, so I didn't read this book for the literary merit. I leave that for the BBC Top 100 books, and other such lists. Clearly, this is a different type of book. I'm with the "loved it" people! I loved the Star Wars elements, and how Pacitti had an obsession that was cracked by the prequels. I saw those movies (I am a couple years younger than Pacitti) in theatres, and I was unimpressed by the stories. I'm definitely into the "classic" Star Wars movies. However, being quite young and immature at the time, I found Jar Jar Binks quite entertaining. Now, I'm not into him, but at the time he was perfectly annoying!
So the book was great, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoyed Star Wars growing up, still enjoys Star Wars, or empathizes with nerds/geeks/the real cool people.
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