The World According to Star Wars

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Enlightening...perceptive...Mr. Sunstein comes across as an energetic, friendly dinner-party tablemate."-- New York Times This book really isn't as focused on Star Wars as it wants you to believe. It is clearly a cash grab. But it starts off good. The first bit I actually enjoyed as it talked about the behind the scenes of Star Wars and about the Hero's Journey aspects of Star Wars, but after that it felt apart and was a bit of a drag for me to read. I selected this book because it was written recently. Often summer reading lists included only books written a long time ago. I am familiar with the Star Wars films. I liked the book because it covered topics like politics, parent-child relationships and Star Wars symbolism. Sometimes it was a humorous book which lightened the mood when discussing things like father-son relationships. Sometimes parents and kids don’t talk for a long time. The author says not to do this because you will regret it later. George Lucas the creator and of Star Wars was not on good terms with his dad because he did not go into the family business. Fun and informative without getting bogged down with being too analytic or too fan-ish."-- Jeffrey Brown, author of the bestselling Goodnight Darth Vader

It’s also clear that George Lucas created Star Wars in the 1970s, at a time when the country was dealing with the Cold War and the aftermath of the Vietnam war and President Nixon’s Watergate scandal.But with the horrors of Vietnam and President Nixon’s resignation in 1974 after the Watergate scandal, Americans knew that there was also a darker side to their institutions.

The author also provides a unique perspective on George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, and his journey in bringing this epic saga to life. He examines the challenges Lucas faced, the risks he took, and the impact of his creation on the entertainment industry and popular culture.

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But there was once a time when things like Death Stars and Wookiees were but vague ideas in the mind of its creator, George Lucas. Irresistibly charming, acclaimed legal scholar Sunstein writes partly as a rigorous academic and partly as a helpless fanboy as he explores our fascination with Star Wars and what the series can teach us about the law, behavioral economics, history, and even fatherhood. This book is fun, brilliant, and deeply original.”—Lee Child

Now, compare that to the words of Buddha, who said, “There is suffering. There is a cause of suffering. There can be an end to suffering. The eightfold path brings about the end of suffering.” Delightful... informative without being boring, funny without being silly.. a marvelous swift read. The force is strong with this one." -- The Economist Enlightening...perceptive...Mr. Sunstein comes across as an energetic, friendly dinner-party tablemate.” ( New York Times)This guy messed up SO MANY names and places. It would be super easy to get them right, simply watch the movies or google how to say it. It was honestly inexcusable. A partial list of mispronounced words: A World According to Star Wars was a very well written book. Cass. R Sunstein, the author, did a great job of connecting the Star Wars films to real life. I enjoyed the book and found it fascinating that some aspects of Star Wars are very closely related to pop culture and the modern world. Despite these facts, I thought that the book had too much information crammed into such a small book. Because the book was not very long, it felt as though the amount of information was inappropriate for it's size. However, I did like the book and would recommend it to any die hard Star Wars fan because it truly opens you eyes to some of the very significant messages hidden away in the Star Wars films. Once again, we see the cascade effect – only this time, rather than a cascade of popularity, it’s a cascade of rebellion.

Sunstein isn't even a fanboy. No, knowing what "a Boba Fett" is does not make one a hardcore enthusiast, as he asserts. I could walk into my local Target right now and buy a Boba Fett t-shirt, desk lamp, and bedspread. I think it's safe to say that Boba Fett is mainstream and accessible to a wide segment of the general population. Take all these factors into account, and it becomes clear that Star Wars is about the price we pay for freedom. In landmark decisions deciding freedom of speech, same-sex marriage, and other timely topics, “the Supreme Court built on an existing narrative. It did not start one. It couldn’t! It’s not allowed to do that.”The World According to Star Wars (2016) reveals the many life lessons to be learned from George Lucas’s Star Wars films. Discover what popular science fiction can tell us about ourselves, what Star Wars has to say about the politics of popularity and how we interpret movies and inject our favorite stories with our own ideas. Who is it for? The narrative structure and personal anecdotes about how Sunstein’s children enjoy Star Wars make the book uniquely his. Many years later, when talking to the writers of the TV show Lost, Lucas confided that he didn’t know where things were headed when the first movie came out. I should have guessed how useless this work was by the repeated mentions of it as a "light" book by various Star Wars podcasts and reviewers. This isn't just light, though. Compared to other commentaries and analyses out there in the Star Wars literature, it's intellectually weightless.