Ok, it is only Wednesday and I’ve already watched way more Youtube than I ever want to for the rest of my life. I feel like my brain has inhaled whole bottles of spray cheese.
Ughh. How do people DO this? I think I’m ready to read just about anything, even a romance! *shudder*
Ok, now we are moving on to books immediately surrounding the first movie trilogy, with Luke, Han and Leia taking centerstage, as they should.
Alien reptiles in robot bodies that eat the Force. THAT is the quality of story you got in one of these books. I doubt you have to guess very hard which one. You can’t fake this folks, it really was written about and worked into the now defunct EU canon. This was the beginning of the Wild West Era of Star Wars. Luke smashed moons together, Han flew the galaxy. Leia, well, honestly, she didn’t do a whole lot yet. But don’t worry, her heyday is just around the corner.
Man, the EU had some great stories. Granted I haven’t read any of this stuff since high school, but…
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Some of the ideas were really top-notch. The execution, yeah, that was the gamble 🙂
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Oh, goodness, I did read The Truce at Bakura – that was the book that cured me of reading all other SW books 😉 That’s a traumatic experience you just dragged out from the forgotten recesses of my memory! 😛 The Tales were cool though 🙂
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And Truce was near the beginning of the EU run too. I think it lowered the bar so much that almost anything after that was considered “good” and hence why so many fans put up with such sub-par books for so long. Blehhhh.
Glad I could help make you be miserable too. Always glad to help spread the misery…
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Thanks, Stooge 😛 There was also a book with witches, which was equally bad… Probably I’ll find it in your next post 😉
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The Courtship of Princess Leia. I actually liked that one 😀 How can you go wrong with dark force witches? Oh wait….(later books went very wrong!)
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LOL! 😀
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See, I’m still a fan even if I don’t want to be. I KNOW these things 😦
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IT IS USELESS TO RESIST…
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I never had an “ex” but Star Wars feels like what I expect an ex-girlfriend to feel like. Leaves me scarred but just won’t leave me alone…
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When did Luke smash moons together?
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I “think” it was either Truce at Bakura or Crystal Star? Might have been “asteroids” but whatever they were, they were huge. The only reason I remember it is because of in one of Zahn’s books he has Mara Jade reference it in regards to overusing the Force. It was Zahn’s way of making fun of other authors who just totally overpowered Luke with “Force Powers”…
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Wow. I’m going to have to read Truce at Bakura, then, because I’m pretty sure that doesn’t happen in Crystal Star. Pretty sure. (And yeah, they boosted his powers waaay too much.)
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The early EU did a pretty poor job of getting the Force right. Thankfully, that didn’t last too long.
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They sure did. And yes, thankfully it didn’t last long. 🙂
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Can’t wait until you do New Jedi Order. All into the trash it goes!
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I’ve always wondered why the novels went the route they did instead of trying to follow the comics. The comics seemed like they were successful (I never read them but always heard about them) so I could never understand why the novels went the NJO path…
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The dangers of Youtube, turns your mind into a mushy mushroom xD I remember reading Alliegance a while back, Timothy Zahn has always been my favorite Star Wars authors. Honestly poor Leia didn’t do anything since Jabba caught her, it’s PTSD probably…
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Nobody seemed to know what to do with Leia. One book she’s a diplomat, another she’s a jedi in training, the next she’s an overworked mother, etc, etc. She definitely got the rough end of the deal.
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Did it never bother you that some hardcovers are never the same size? Or that the cover changes from an edition to another in your collection? 😮 I think it’s one of the main reasons why I never got around to collecting them.
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Nah, so many of them were from the SFBC that the majority matched. It was enough for me when 75% of my collection was the same height, so I was good 🙂
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