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Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Legends of Luke Skywalker

By: Ken Liu
Narrated by: January LaVoy
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As a cargo ship rockets across the galaxy to Canto Bight, the deckhands onboard trade stories about legendary Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. But are the stories of iconic and mysterious Luke Skywalker true or merely tall tales passed from one corner of the galaxy to another? Is Skywalker really a famous Jedi hero, an elaborate charlatan, or even part droid? The deckhands will have to decide for themselves when they hear The Legends of Luke Skywalker. A collection of myths and tall tales about the legendary Jedi Luke Skywalker, written by Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Ken Liu.

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About the Creator - Ken Liu

About the Creator

Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards for his fiction, he has also won top genre honors abroad in Japan, Spain, and France.
Liu’s most characteristic work is the four-volume epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers, not wizards, are the heroes of a silkpunk world on the verge of modernity. His debut collection of short fiction, The Paper Menagerie And Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. A second collection, The Hidden Girl And Other Stories, followed. He also penned the Star Wars novel The Legends of Luke Skywalker.
He’s often involved in media adaptations of his work. Recent projects include The Message, under development by 21 Laps and Film Nation Entertainment; Good Hunting, adapted as an episode in season one of Netflix’s breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots, and AMC’s Pantheon, with Craig Silverstein as executive producer, adapted from an interconnected series of Liu’s short stories.
Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Liu worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, machine-augmented creativity, history of technology, bookmaking, and the mathematics of origami.
Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.
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Let me start by saying that I really liked the stories in this. Some were a bit more...far fetched than others (*cough*mole flea*cough*) but overall it was a fun jaunt through some of the outlandish stories that people spread about Luke Skywalker.

BUT...January LaVoy was not the right choice to read this book. She is AMAZING in other Star Wars books (Phasma for instance) but a book about Luke--and one incorporating a wide gamut of voices and characters needed Marc Thompson for sure. Had he read this book, it would have gotten 5 stars for sure.
Ms. LaVoy is great for those young female characters...and she does a great Imperial accent...but she always makes males sound offish and dumb. ...and Luke never sounded offish and dumb in the movies--especially post RotJ Luke.

I definitely wish i had read this one myself rather than listened, and i highly recommend that you do the same. Again, GREAT book....but not the greatest reading.

Read this one--not the best in audio format

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I’ve read some good and some bad about this book so I wasn’t sure what to think going in. I enjoyed the format of the book, a bigger overarching story made up of several smaller stories told by the main characters.

This book serves to enhance the legend of Luke Skywalker. Remember in The Force Awakens how Rey and Finn reacted to hearing about Luke and that he might actually have been a real person, first on Jakku, and then later on the Falcon with Han? This book is made up of stories that create that kind of awe about Luke. You have to decide what part of the stories seem real, fake or too good to be true, and thus stories of a legend.

I was enthralled by the narration. January LaVoy is the narrator of this book and was the narrator of the pervious book I listened to, Phasma. She is extremely skilled, fun to listen to, and as is always the hope, she brings each story to life with her passion and emotion.

There are a couple of stories in this book that may very well lead us into The Last Jedi while one story is a retelling of events seen from Return of the Jedi, and a few that it was hard to tell when they might have occurred, but every story was entertaining, interesting and even a little emotional (much of that credit goes to the narration stylings of January LaVoy).

I recommend this book and suggest that readers go into with an open mind and with the thought that you will be hearing stories about Luke Skywalker told by normal sentient beings from across the galaxy who have heard about or even personally know Luke, but seem to hold him in very high regard and that each telling is designed to increase his reputation and status as both a person and a Jedi - likely for the purpose of then reintroducing him in the soon to be released Star Wars: The Last Jedi as a larger than life legendary figure,

How big is Luke? Ask his friend the Mole Flea

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Not the best of the new canon novels. But interesting form of story telling. Very much explains some of the more enigmatic thoughts of Luke in The Last Jedi

Informative for Luke in Ep 8

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Fun Luke Skywalker stories! The perspective of different story tellers help keep the content fresh and expand on the legend :)

Fun!

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It's good to hear/read canon Luke stories. While I like and still value legend stories, this book was refreshing and exciting to me. Explains a few things in TLJ too

Canon Luke

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fun collection of stories but probably not worth a full credit being under 7 hrs long

good listen just really short

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Another bland contribution to the new SW canon. This book is a grind to get through, not sure if I'll even stick it out. I should say, I really like the idea of this book. Of course there would be tons of word of mouth tales of Luke, and it could be so fun to wonder which things are true or not. I just think the actual execution of the story leaves a lot to be desired. Most of the stories are so bland that they barely hold my attention, which is actually fine because none of the stories actually drive the plot forward anyway ! Ugh. It shouldn't be so difficult to add meaningful and engaging stories and characters to this enormous universe, while deepening our understanding of the characters we already love.

Ugh

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Listen as a group of kids on a ship tell stories and legends of the great Luke Skywalker! Some are cool. All are fun. And there's a good deal of humor found in most of them.

A Whole lot of fun

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Definitely a different sort of Star Wars story but a good one. It helps explain what Luke was doing after episode 6 and help set up his mind set a little along with the whole spark for the galaxy concept. Of you are a true fan read this. or listen. I enjoyed it

very interesting story

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loved the hooded man...struggled with A couple....the last one was a hmmmm....make you think of what's coming moment!

A bit confusing, perhaps on purpose?

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