It's Friday – 20 January 2012

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Book Beginnings

Book Beginnings on Friday is hosted by Katy at A Few More Pages. How to participate: Share the first line (or two) of the book you are currently reading. Don’t forget to include the title and the author so others will what you’re reading. Optional: Share your thoughts about the lines (did you like them?). Post your link on the hostess’s blog.

Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

Darth Plagueis (James Luceno)

Forty-seven years before the harrowing reign of Emperor Palpatine, Bal’demnic was nothing more than an embryonic world in the Outer Rim’s Auril sector, populated by reptilian sentients who expressed as little tolerance for outsiders as they did for one another.Darth Plagueis (James Luceno)

Comment: From the first chapter — the book has a prologue but of the two starting points, I liked this one better. It lets the reader know that the story begins 47 years before the events in the movie, Revenge of the Sith. In the Star Wars Universe, zero date is the destruction of the first Death Star (Star Wars – A New Hope), so this book takes place 67 years before that event.

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Friday 56
Hosted by Freda (Freda’s Voice)
Rules:
? Grab a book, any book.
? Turn to page 56.
? Find any sentence that grabs you.
? Post it.
? Link it here.

The Munns were said to abhor literature and to loathe keeping records of anything other than loan notices, actuarial tables, and legal writs, and yet Plagueis was guardian of one of the finest libraries to be found anywhere outside Obroa-skai or the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. — pg 56, (Darth Plagueis ~ James Luceno)

Note: In the book, there is a mistake that wasn’t caught when it was edited. I didn’t choose the sentence because of the mistake. In fact, I didn’t realize there was one when I read the page in the course of reading the book, or when I was scanning the paragraph for a likely quote. I only realized it as I was typing the sentence, making sure I was getting all the words. When the sentence sounded odd, I realized what was wrong. The quote: “. . .Plagueis was guardian of the one of the finest. . .”  I could be wrong and the quote could be “. . .guardian of the finest. . .”, but I doubt it: libraries is plural, meaning more than one library is equal to the one he maintains.

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Comments

It's Friday – 20 January 2012 — 10 Comments

    • It was pretty good. It was more of a political book than an action book. It’s about how a member of the Intergalactic Banking Clan (Plagueis) and a career politician (Palpatine) help expedite the fall of the Republic. They had the power of the darkside, but they also relied on plain old corruption and greed.

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  1. I used to be a huge Star Wars fan, but not so much anymore. Still that 56 was highly intriguing and makes me want to see this library that is so rare.

    • A darkside library wouldn’t have anything, er, nice to read in it, I’m sure. Mostly likely get yourself killed if you went anywhere near it. 😉

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    • I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near a library owned by a Dark Lord of the Sith. 😉 Probably meet an untimely and gruesome end!

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  2. Great Friday 56! I am not a Star Wars fan, but definitely a fan of secret libraries…and I like finding mistakes in published works, makes me feel clever! lol 🙂

    • Thanks! The library is the real reason I picked the quote. 🙂

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