Star Warped: Once Upon a Time in a Galaxy Nowhere Near Far Enough Away

by A3R Roberts, A3R Roberts

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The parodies are hilarious, but the numbers are serious, with millions of copies sold. And now, in our very own time and galaxy, Star Wars finally gets its comeuppance-just in time to coincide with the release of the 6th and final film. The force is with us!

This is a satire well and truly with the last chapters in the Star Wars ' saga reaching new lows, the movies that have dominated popular culture for more than three decades deserve a little tweaking. Oh, sure, a long time ago, in what seems like a galaxy far, far away, there was a very good and thoroughly entertaining SF film. But that's long gone. So here it comes, a six-part mock-epic that begins in the middle of the action, pits good against evil, and features hairy co-pilots, green gurus, bizarre hairdos, steel bras, and campy robots.


In addition to his bestselling parodies, Adam Roberts has written a SF novel, Salt , which was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, as well as a number of academic works.

Genres: Humor, Star Wars, Science Fiction, Fiction, Comedy

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious

[N.A. Fedorak · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better than the original series.

[Matthew Harwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

A fun, weird and whacky parody of one of the biggest pieces of Science Fiction. The story is humorous and has segments that left me laughing out loud, an enjoyable and quick read.

[Cindy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Je dois avouer que j'ai préféré cette parodie-ci à celle de Bilbo le Hobbit .. Oups, Bingo le Posstit.

C'était assez amusant de revisiter les films tant du côté des "Jedognon" que celui de Dark Pater.
Bon, j'avoue quand même que par moment le côte Lourd de la Farce est assez perturbant quand l'auteur se perd dans ses délires. Ce n'est pas toujours évident de le suivre .. Et encore, je ne suis pas persuadée d'avoir tout compris vu les égarements de l'auteur lol.

"Dans une galaxie lointaine .. Hein! en fait nan .. un monde virtuel "dominé" par des auteurs de SF célèbres XD

Quelques personnages:

Luc Skyterrier .. à l'envers, ça fait "cul" XDDDD.
Son parcours pour devenir chevalier Jedognon n'est pas de tout repos. En effet, entre la maitrise de la Farce et les "maladresses et stupidités" caractéristiques de ces fameux guerriers pour la paix => Il faut avoir un bon kit de secours et de bons sparadraps lol.

Notre cher Chikdutabac (Chewbaka) le Kookie qui passe, oui disons le franchement, tous les épisodes à hiberner ... D'ailleurs, la plupart du temps, il se fera porter par Yahun Salo (Han Solo).
Ce dernier n'en mène pas large non plus d'ailleurs surtout en face de la "belle" princesse Layette.

Yodla .. maître Jedognon suprême dans l'art du combat au sabre lumière ...

Et notre chouette duo de droïdes légèrement humanophobes dont l'un est le détenteur du fameux secret HAHHAHAHA.

[Anne (ReadEatGameRepeat) · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book is really quite a rollercoaster + sometimes I would laught out loud and the book had these great funny moments & at these moments the book was great and if there were more of those I would gladly give it 5 stars - however this didnt happen as most moment were just funny-ish, very forced and kinda weird that just seemed to drag on forever.
I will still say this is a good parody of the starwars movies - I will say at times it kind if reminded me of Spaceballs (which is not a bad thing) and at times I wondered if the two were in any way related to each other.

[Cait · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really funny, couldn't help but laugh out loud in places.

Thought the names were great, especially the 'extras'.

The first three parodies were better than the last three but the last ones did tie everything together.

The final three felt a bit rushed by comparison to the first three.

Would like to read it again after a Star Wars movie marathon.

Looking forward to reading the Tolkien parodies.

[Galy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Me ha costado un montón terminar este libro. Definitivamente no es para mí, no me ha enganchado ni me hacía tanta gracia al cabo de un rato de leerlo. A partir de la mitad o así empecé a leer entre líneas porque no podía más...
No estoy diciendo que no sea bueno, tiene cosas que me hicieron gracia, pero no ha resultado ser precisamente de mi agrado pero respeto a quienes sí les ha gustado, claro.
Al menos ya lo he terminado.

[Abigail · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very funny (and sometimes adult) take on the Star Wars Trilogy combined with all sorts of other science fiction and comedy references. Light-hearted, it made a change from my usual reading and was easy to read at the same time as another book

[Ketiil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Funny parody of the Star Wars saga.

[Atishay · Rating 2 out of 5]

Gets a bit boring in the middle pages. "Va Dinci Cod" is a much better comedy by the same author.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was so so... I expected it to be extremely funny while in fact it was just ok. Interesting attempt to parody Star Wars, but to be honest I've seen or read better ones.

[[ J o ] · Rating 1 out of 5]

[ to review at a later date - possibly even re-read at a later date as well, though not urgent ]

[Dirk · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the book in German. It's totally silly from start to finish. But I kind of enjoyed reading it anyway.

[A · Rating 1 out of 5]

If you enjoy slapstick comedy, you should enjoy this. Me? I don't. Done reading it by page 158 (close to half book). Couldn't take it anymore.

[Aslan Aslanli · Rating 2 out of 5]

I am still reading it so.

[Francine · Rating 1 out of 5]

I like Star Wars a lot, but I don't particularly enjoy parody books. Didn't finish, so no rating.

[Eve · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was hoping to enjoy this book, since it is a parody of Star Wars.
However, it was very difficult to get through it, so I gave up after only a handful of pages.

[Carmelo Manuel · Rating 2 out of 5]

Donde tengo que ir para leerlo