{"id":33348,"date":"2018-05-04T22:26:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T02:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33348"},"modified":"2018-05-04T22:26:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T02:26:54","slug":"review-of-99-stormtroopers-join-the-empire-by-greg-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=33348","title":{"rendered":"Review of 99 Stormtroopers Join the Empire, by Greg Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/99_stormtroopers_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/99_stormtroopers_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34701\" \/><\/a><em>99 Stormtroopers Join the Empire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Greg Stones<\/p>\n<p>Chronicle Books, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, this book honestly made me laugh out loud.  I\u2019d never noticed how many different ways stormtroopers die in the <em>Star Wars<\/em> movies.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s what this book is about.  It begins innocently enough:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ninety-nine stormtroopers join the Empire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We see a relatively calm picture of Darth Vader reviewing his troops.<\/p>\n<p>But one by one and group by group, bad things happen to the new recruits.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One stormtrooper becomes bantha fodder\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>One stormtrooper fails to shoot first\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>One stormtrooper asks for a promotion\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Two stormtroopers underestimate a princess\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>One stormtrooper doesn\u2019t let the Wookiee win\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six stormtroopers are stationed on Alderaan\u2026.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You get the idea.  The illustrations are hilarious, too \u2013 with the joke often in the illustrations.  (Sometimes we see an illustration showing a notable crash from the movie \u2013 with a stormtrooper in the way.)<\/p>\n<p>Instead of page numbers, we\u2019ve got a running count of how many stormtroopers are left.<\/p>\n<p>The last lucky stormtrooper lives happily ever after\u2026 on the Death Star.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m afraid this may be the book that gets me to count stormtrooper deaths the next time I watch a <em>Star Wars<\/em> movie.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1452159246\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/99_stormtroopers.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/99_stormtroopers.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: I am an Amazon Affiliate, and will earn a small percentage if you order a book on Amazon after clicking through from my site.<\/p>\n<p>Source: This review is based on a library book from Fairfax County Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer:  I am a professional librarian, but I maintain my website and blogs on my own time.  The views expressed are solely my own, and in no way represent the official views of my employer or of any committee or group of which I am part.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"Sonderbooks\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What did you think of this book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>99 Stormtroopers Join the Empire by Greg Stones Chronicle Books, 2017. Okay, this book honestly made me laugh out loud. I\u2019d never noticed how many different ways stormtroopers die in the Star Wars movies. And that\u2019s what this book is about. It begins innocently enough: Ninety-nine stormtroopers join the Empire. We see a relatively calm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorous","category-nonfiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}