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Welcome to my ever-evolving blog. It started out as a blog on Beachbody workouts and products, mainly when I was a Beachbody coach. I no longer coach, not because I don't believe in Beachbody's programs (I subscribe to Beachbody on Demand and use their workouts every day), I am just not a salesperson and hated that aspect of it. I am more than willing to answer questions about my experiences with their products and the various workouts, and I feel freer to do so without the appearance of giving a biased review of something.

I have also started adding reviews for various things I have purchased like movies, books, CDs, and other products. This was brought about by a fight with Amazon in which all of my reviews were removed over a completely bullshit allegation that I posted a review that violated their terms of service. After going back and forth with the morons in the community-reviews department (even after they admitted that my posts did not violate their guidelines) they restored my account (which took them six months to do), but I have been posting my reviews on my blog to have them preserved in case something like that happens again. And here, I will post uncensored reviews so I will swear from time to time and post reviews that may be longer than Amazon's character limit. Everything I post here on any topic or product is my personal opinion, and I take no compensation for any product reviews I post. I am a member of Amazon's vine program and because I get those products for free, I keep those reviews on Amazon only, but everything I have purchased with my own money, whether from Amazon or some other store/website/outlet, I will post here.  

I also plan to do some longer blog posts on various topics, such as how to learn physics, how to get through calculus, and longer reviews of workout programs as I do them. Basically, whatever strikes me as interesting at the time.  As you can see if you navigate around the blog, I had many years in between postings. During that time I was going back to school to get an engineering degree, and learning material that I avoided my first time through college was a different experience and one that gave me a lot of insight into how to do well in those classes, which I will try to impart here for those who are looking to get a science or engineering degree. 

Monday, June 21, 2021

Book Review: Star Wars Dark Legends

 

This is a collection of short stories that is what you would get if you combined Star Wars with kid's ghost stories told around a campfire. All of the stories are about 20-30 pages long, give or take, and basically deal with the Sith in some way, shape, or form.  One of the stories involves force-sensitive kids being kidnapped from an orphanage by an Inquisitor-like character, a story about what it is like to be a grunt on Vader's Star Destroyer, and a moon near a star with a damaged Kyber Crystal (like those that power sith lightsabers) at it core, whose solar flares send out dark side energy that makes anyone on the moon go crazy. 

Overall, it is a quick read, and while it is a kid's book, it is written well enough that an adult can enjoy it.  It is definitely not what I would classify as a must-read, however. It is totally ancillary to the main, canon, adult novels that are more heavily tied to the main storyline or characters in the main storyline. It is the kind of book that most people would get because they collect most of the Star Wars novels and it is a book that most people are likely to read once as opposed to going back to it multiple times.

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