Tales from Jabba's Palace: Star Wars Legends

by Kevin J. Anderson

Book Overview

In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt might have made a good joke -- if he weren't so dangerous. A cast of soldiers, spies, assassins, scoundrels, bounty hunters, and pleasure seekers have come to his palace, and every visitor to Jabba's...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0553568159
• ISBN13: 9780553568158
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Random House Worlds
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A good, well rounded book, my favorite of the Tales, so far

Out of all the Star Wars movies, Return of the Jedi has always been my favorite, so it was especially interesting to me to learn about all those side characters I barely paid attention to in the movies. Though this book doesn't require any vast Star Wars knowledge or brain cells to read and understand, it's actually quite a good book. I thought it was organized a little better than the others too, since they all seemed to have something to do with each other, and flowed along as a full story better than the others. Anyway the stories are: A Boy and His Monster: The Rancor Keepers Tale, an interesting story that tells of Malakili, the guy who took care of the rancor.Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef, the story of Jabba's nervous cook.That's Entertainment: The Tale of Salacious Crumb, the story of the annoying little pet thing Jabba has.A Time to Mourn, A Time to Dance: Oola's Tale, finally we get to find out was up with the dancing girl Jabba fed to his rancor.Let us Prey: The Whiphid's Tale, a spy in Jabba's palace...Sleight of Hand: The Tale of Mara Jade, my favorite story in the book, about my favorite Star Wars character! Mara's adventures as she poses as a dancing girl in Jabba's palace, and waits for her chance to fulfil the Emperor's command and kill Luke Skywalker...And Then There were Some: The Gammorrean Gaurd's Tale, a kind of sad story about one of the gaurds.Old Friends: Ephant Mon's Tale, does Jabba have any true friends?Goatgrass: The Tale of Ree-Yees, a disgusting story about the three eyed guy.And the Band Played On: The Band's Tale, title says it all.Of The Day's Annoyances: Bib Fortuna's Tale, What really goes on in Bib Fortuna's brain?The Great God Quay: The Tale of Barada and the Weequays, short but interesting.A Bad Feeling: The Tale of EV-9D9, The droid down in Jabba's dungeon was actually a programmed phyco with a dislike for Lando.A Free Quarren in the Palace: Tessek's Tale, I could never figure out which alien this ones about, but it's good.Tongue Tied: Bubo's Tale, story of the frog thing.Out of the Closet: The Assasin's Tale, The most disgusting story in the book.Shaara and the Sarlaac: The Skiff Guards's tale, confusing but good.A Barve Like That: The Tale of Boba Fett, another Fett story.Skin Deep: The Fat Dancer's Tale, a surprisingly compelling story.Anyway, I would most definitely recommend this book to any Star Wars fan, especially those obsessed with knowing every background detail.

A great book of short stories

This book had some great stories. I liked how the stories fit together. I think some of the best stories were: The Rancor Keeper's tale, Ephont Mon's tale, The Band's, Bib Fortuna, The Weequay's tale(funny),and of course Boba Fett's tale. The epilouge at the very end of the book was cool.

Da Best

This was one of the best starwars books I have ever read. Read this one and find out really who want to kill jabba and find out what happenes after jabba's death. Also Recommend the other tales books

Great Book- But Where Is Jabba's Tale?

Everyone Has A Tale- except Jabba. The only disapointment other than that is Boba's tale. I like Bubo's tale, especially siince I didn't even know he was intelligent. The Weequays who worshipped the magic 8 Ball was a trip, though it remained unclear what caused the sail barge to blow.

The Demise of the Denizens.

This book focuses mainly on the intrigue, plots and counterplots going on in Jabba's palace between the arrival of R2-D2 and C3PO to just after Jabba's demise in the Dune Sea at the pit of the Sarlacc. One prominent plan in some of the stories is the plans that the B'omarr monks have for some of Jabba's denizens. I enjoyed the book immensely and found myself routing when a bad guy like Bib Fortuna recieved an unexpected (for him) judgement; and saddened when a good guy was saddened such as for Malakili at the death of his charge. The book was hard to put down once picked up