Or more specifically, his son.

I went back to my middle school today to get some tutoring with a teacher, and I was there early so I went to talk to my old history teacher. We were in homeroom, with a score or two of 6th graders, and he asked "Do you like SW books?"
I said, "Yeah. They're ok. Haven't been great as of late."
Replies he, "Yeah. Well.. his dad *points* writes them."
*jaw drops* What's his last name?
"Luceno. James" (I was hoping it was Zahn...)
"That's awesome! What has he written?"
"The latest Jedi order book or something.. He gave me a free draft of it."
"Wait. He writes for the NJO? He didn't.. happen.. to write the first one.. did he?"
"Yeah.. He did-"
*makes stabbing motions towards kid*

Yeah. So.. I can find this kids address. Holy crap. I have this guys phone number!! Awesome. Who wants to stage a raid, and demand the write a final final book where it was all just a bad dream of Han's?

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

No. He didn't write the first one. He wrote the Agent of Choas sub-series, which wasn't nearly as bad.

Yeah the frist one was by Salvatore. And the only good thing about that book was that chewie died. Its about time the classic trilogy characters bacame non-invincable.

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Ok, my bad. I look it up on amazon, and I must have thought a different book was first.

Still.

And DS- Yeah.. but Chewie???

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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

CHEWIE WILL NEVER DIE

*cries in corner*

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[This message has been edited by Kieran Horn (edited January 15, 2004).]

I say they should kill off luke.

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I'd much rather kill off the authors of NJO.

Yeah, NJO and the prequels have pretty much ruined Star Wars for me.

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You've got to be kidding, Salvatore's book is the only good NJO book.

The way I see it Lucas and the EU authors are currently taking turns in beating the fast cooling corpse of Star Wars with a baseball bat.

I say we need a revolution.

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Don't they like throw a planet at Chewie or something like that.

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In my opinion, it was a revolution that killed Star Wars; particularly in the case of this New Jedi Order stuff. 'Classic' Star Wars, the formula that brought us all together, was hot-potatoed out the figurative window. Whatever happened to the lightsaber duels, and the moral sliding scale issues of the Force?

...yes, I KNOW that was done a lot. A lot-lot. But see what happens when we try something new?



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Most of the EU is garbage anyways, especially when you start comparing it to other Sci Fi literature.

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Some of Zahn's stuff is OK. It just shows up really badly in SW when authors wish to put their own blend of writing in - entire novels go by without Luke or Han killing something, and the romance side-plots (note; SIDE plots) suddenly become all-encompassing shmooze. Pass me a Kleenex, and a vomit bag while you're at it.

Gold!

Oh, and the topic was supposed to be "Don't like the new jedi order?

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Salvatore rocks, don't be mean to Salvatore. He wrote half the books on my bookshelf.

A moon. I figure, if you're gonna take out a big guy, he may as well go out big. I mean C'Mon, how many people do YOU know died of having a MOON fall on their head?

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It's my understanding that most of the plot was written by a committe or something, not the individual authors. They just put them on paper.

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I don't know, at least the Old Jedi ordered some caviar. Don't ask me about the new ones.

Very.. funny.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
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RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

Save for a few, I don't really like the EU books. It's just gotten on my nerves that whenever the New Republic has a problem, they ALWAYS dispatch Luke, Han, Leia and the gang to fix it. It just doesn't seemed logical to me that they should rely on them every time, all the time.

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Salvatore and Zahn are some of the best authors I have ever read. They are gods to me. BASH THEM NOT!

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Eat the pudding.

It talks on the CD that came with The Unifying Force (the last one) about how Salvator got a whole crapload of hate-mail, and even threats. Even though the decision came from LucasBooks - the only thing Salvatore could do was choose how he died.
SPOILER:

I think throwing a planet on him just after he saved hundreds of lives was the best way for him to go, frankly