“I can tell you from a combination of personal experience and scientific fact, that ten years old is the perfect and correct age at which to see Star Wars for the first time.” Although this glorious memoir (subtitled ‘Growing up in the UK with an American Cultural Phenomenon’) starts jokily, author and Star Wars memorabilia-ist extraordinaire Phil Heeks may well be on to something. Exactly ten years old when Luke Skywalker et al first came into his and the lives of millions of other children, Star Wars changed the author’s world, setting him on the road to become a lifelong fan and collector of all things from a galaxy far, far away. For Heeks – as for many of us – life can be divided into BSW (before Star Wars) and ASW (after Star Wars), but few of us can detail, with as much wit and
from Horror and Sci Fi Magazines http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/book-reviews-latest-literary-releases/15999-waitingforstarwars
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