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Best Star Wars books
2006-01-10, 6:44 AM #41
Here's another vote for the Wraith Squadron and Rogue Squadron books. They were good plain fun.
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2006-01-10, 7:23 AM #42
Originally posted by ORJ_JoS:
I've been looking for those for years! I think I'll have to order them, because they aren't available anywhere, where I live.


[http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1565112784.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg]
Dark Forces Trilogy on CD
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The first book is the back story to JK, and the second and third books are events that take place in the computer game that we all know and love. These books even have SOUND EFFECTS and the JOHN WILLIAM'S SCORES !
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2006-01-10, 8:15 AM #43
I'm throwing my vote in with the X-Wing series + I, Jedi. I need to see if there are any new books. Last one I read was about Adumar(I think).
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2006-01-10, 10:05 AM #44
Originally posted by ORJ_JoS:
lol! I seem to have a reputation. Well, don't get me wrong... I like some of the EU stuff. It just so happens that I do not like most of the post-RotJ stuff. I thought Thrawn was cool, for example, but Zahn horribly messed up the story with C'Baoth and a totally out of character Luke Skywalker. The reason why I don't like the NJO is because it throws overboard the entire George Lucas vision of the Force, which is really important i.m.o. In the Jedi Academy trilogy, I thought the suncrusher was silly, and not even half as cool as the Deathstar, yet it was supposed to be lots more powerful.

I wasn't really being sarcastic... I read some of the Clone Wars novels and I really enjoyed them. Much more than I did all the other books. They seem to be more consistent with the movies, which I like. I'm planning on reading more of them. Some of my clanmates reading SW books agree that the Clone Wars novels are generally better than the rest.

Just my 2 cents. :)


Yeah, I can see where you're coming from then. I agree that the JA trilogy was a bit weak, and I can somewhat agree on the NJO and Jorus, but I still think they're excellent books. I think a lot of the force stuff in the NJO deals with their perspective of the force, and not necessarily the nature of the force itself (and if you look at it that way, it's not quite contradictory to how the movies represent it), but it did get out of hand in places. I still love the books, though, but to each his own.

I've heard that a lot of the clone wars novels are fairly bland, but I havn't read them myself. If you havn't read it already, though, I highly suggest picking up Republic Commando: Hard Contact. I read it expecting it to be a generically lame videogame novel, but it blew me away after the first few chapters. Great book.
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2006-01-10, 12:04 PM #45
Best three:

# Heir to the Empire
# Dark Force Rising
# Last Command

The X-wing series was ok, but generally speaking, the books (aside from the above which are awesome) spend way too much time dealing with stupid sexual motives - especially Stackpole. It's almost like he learned how to write from Mr. Garrison.
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2006-01-10, 4:07 PM #46
Originally posted by A_Big_Fat_CoW:
... to each his own.


Indeed. :)

On a sidenote, I must say I haven't read the X-Wing series, and I heard they're cool.

Originally posted by A_Big_Fat_CoW:
If you havn't read it already, though, I highly suggest picking up Republic Commando: Hard Contact. I read it expecting it to be a generically lame videogame novel, but it blew me away after the first few chapters. Great book.


Yeah, you're not the first person to recommend Hard Contact to me. And I haven't read it yet, so I'm definitely checking it out!

Originally posted by KnightRider2000:
The first book is the back story to JK, and the second and third books are events that take place in the computer game that we all know and love. These books even have SOUND EFFECTS and the JOHN WILLIAM'S SCORES !


Those are the audio books! I happen to have downloaded those from someone who had them... I still need to check them out. I am actually looking for the actual books, but great find nonetheless!
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2006-01-10, 4:15 PM #47
[QUOTE=Kieran Horn]I'm throwing my vote in with the X-Wing series + I, Jedi. I need to see if there are any new books. Last one I read was about Adumar(I think).[/QUOTE]


That was 9, right? I think that was the latest... unless it came before Isard's Revenge, which was sweet b/c it had TIE Defenders, but lame b/c a clone was central to the plot :p.
2006-01-10, 6:27 PM #48
Originally posted by saberopus:
That was 9, right? I think that was the latest... unless it came before Isard's Revenge, which was sweet b/c it had TIE Defenders, but lame b/c a clone was central to the plot :p.


Yeah, Starfighters of Adumar was the ninth. Definitely the funniest and maybe the best overall of Allston's books.
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2006-01-11, 12:41 AM #49
Originally posted by A_Big_Fat_CoW:
I've heard that a lot of the clone wars novels are fairly bland, but I havn't read them myself. If you havn't read it already, though, I highly suggest picking up Republic Commando: Hard Contact. I read it expecting it to be a generically lame videogame novel, but it blew me away after the first few chapters. Great book.


Yeah, that was really a surprise. Fortunately I also read the SW: Galaxies novel to redeem my view of computer game novels. :rolleyes:

The best Clone Wars novel is IMHO Shatterpoint. And as it happens the same author also wrote Traitor, my favourite NJO-book.
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2006-01-11, 1:10 AM #50
What the hell is a book?
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2006-01-11, 9:12 AM #51
It's like a bundle of printed webpages. Text on paper, like in the pre-digital age.
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2006-01-11, 11:43 AM #52
I'll tell you one book NOT to read. Revenge of the Sith. It's awful![/u] Probably the worst book I've ever read. Star Wars or not. The author goes into these hour long description of characters, and it just takes forever to get anywhere. 'Course, it doesn't compare to the movie to boot.
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2006-01-11, 12:22 PM #53
Traitor
And the first NJO book
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2006-01-11, 12:29 PM #54
Originally posted by bearded_jarl:
the Sarlacc doesn't just eat its victims and that's it. It gets its tentacles in them, fills their minds up, keeps them alive for a thousand years.


I may be rusty since its been years since i read it, but i think in Tales from Jabbas Palace (i enjoyed that book, one of the few SW books i've read).

Doesn't Boba Fett converse with the sarlacc inside his own head?

As i say, i'm rusty, i may be wrong.
2006-01-11, 5:26 PM #55
I think that might be the one, yeah.

-Actually, the whole escaping the sarlacc thing is a plot point of, like, six different books in the EU, at least. He just keeps popping up OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. In Unifying Force, he's even got a whole squad of Fett-wannabes runnig around with him, blowing up Yuuzhan Vong. Awesome.
2006-01-12, 7:24 PM #56
Originally posted by Anovis:
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That or the BH series. Awesome.


yeah. that and the BS series. yeah. i know exactly what you meant.
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2006-01-12, 7:38 PM #57
Originally posted by ORJ_JoS:
I wasn't really being sarcastic... I read some of the Clone Wars novels and I really enjoyed them. Much more than I did all the other books.

In that case, you need one of these:
[http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/5176/fab02brain2zp.gif]

:p ;)
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2006-01-12, 7:55 PM #58
[QUOTE=Vincent Valentine]Han Solo Trilogy[/QUOTE]

Me too. Its the only Star Wars books series I've ever read.
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