After the NJO, Jacen Solo, aka Darth Cadeus, becomes head of the Galactic Alliance and begins to secretly recruit Ben Skywalker as his apprentice. Ben is having none of it though. Cadeus openly reveals himself as Sith and begins to follow in his Grandfather’s footsteps. Jaina, as Sword of the Jedi, cuts him down like a two dollar box of cardboard. This is the Legacy of the Force.
Next up was Fate of the Jedi. Luke has withdrawn after his complete failure with Jacen and it is up to the other Jedi to keep the Academy running. Unfortunately, Jedi begin going mad on Coruscant and killing until brought down and sedated. Admiral Daala becomes head of the GA and outlaws the Jedi and institutes a hunt that makes Order 66 look like childs play.
Now if certain ideas sound familiar, that is because the new movies stole ideas left and right from the old EU books. Of course, they stole all the crap and produced crap films. By the end of FotJ, I was done. When a whole planet of Sith was revealed, I just gave up. Then Lucas Arts announced that the EU books were no longer canon and everything that I had been following was now just fan-fic. Stabbed in the back by Lucas himself.
So there you have it folks. 6 days of Star Wars covers. What am I supposed to do with them all? I simply don’t want them any more and worst case, I’ll throw them away. Second worst case is I donate them to a fundraiser my cousin’s stepson regularly participates in. Best case is I sell them for free on Craigslist and score some cash.
Well, whatever. I’m over my reading funk by sheer dint of being bored out of my skull. Tomorrow I am going to read all day and make a Survival Saturday post. A good book by Adrian Tchaikovsky and some “interesting” food, sounds like a perfect way to spend my Saturday.
That sounds like a great Saturday plan. I look forward to finding out what survival food you try next!
Somehow I never got into Star Wars. I watched the first 6 movies at one point and liked them ok, but they didn’t stick with me and I’ve never felt any desire to rewatch them. What little I remember of the characters and the story I think comes more from hearing people talk about them than from my own actual memory.
I like your idea of taking pictures before you get rid of the books. I had a crazy collection of Star Trek books at one point that I got rid of after both losing interest in them and going digital. I’ve never missed the books, but now I kind of wish I’d thought to take pictures to mark that phase of my life. 🙂
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Going to make the survival food tonight, which will give me time to post about it tomorrow.
I got into Star Wars with the original films and I think that helped a lot. And nostalgia 😉
When I was taking pix for these books I realized I’ve got a lot of books on my shelves that I have no intention of ever re-reading. They are from when I had more free money and I tried to buy every book I read. I’ve read a lot of crap 😀
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Survival food post!!
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Coming up at noon tomorrow, EST…
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Hey, glad to see you are back to reading. Now I know who recommended Adrian Tchaikovsky!! Did you see my review of the Guns of Dawn?
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Who are you? Did I leave a comment on a post of yours?
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Glad you’re out of your reading funk! Sounds like a great Saturday – enjoy it!
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Thank you 🙂
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“Of course, they stole all the crap and produced crap films.”
You know, that’s actually a really good way of putting it. They didn’t take the good stuff from the old EU, just the bad junk. *Sigh* Go figure….
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I think half of the EU fandom would have bit their tongues if Thrawn could have appeared as the big baddie in the new movies…
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Nope, as you said in your reply to my comment on your previous post, Fate wasn’t much better. I think I made it three books. That was around the time they were talking about scrapping the EU and starting over so I didn’t bother picking any more up, and was able to feel guilt-free about it.
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The editing team in charge really screwed up. Not one character ever took off and with them killing off famous characters, they set themselves up for failure.
Crucible was the last official EU book I read and it just kind of died out with a whimper.
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I found Scoundrels and Kenobi pretty fun. An Oceans 11 caper and a western.
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Huh, I’d never really thought about Kenobi being a western, but thinking back on it, you’re totally right.
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How Zahn’s Scoundrels hold up? Never read it, but seems the most salvable of the lot…
Well, you can see the books get worse by the state of covers – most of those look really bad, like a botched attempt at YA thriller, and only Scoundrels and Kenobi seem all right ;).
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Scoundrel’s was decent. I gave it 4stars back in ’13, so…..?
And I concur about the covers 😦
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I’ve thought about picking up Scoundrels several times, maybe I’ll finally get around to it.
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A bit late to the party yet again, by this time youve probly already posted your food blog. What a way to relive your old posts. I am sad you had to say farewell to SW, but i think milou and i are pretty done too. I do still rock my wookie onesie tho.
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I have a feeling the new movies are killing the franchise 😦
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I have no doubt. Sjws and disney do not mix
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Ugh I just think it absolutely sucks that Lucasfilm stabbed all that Star Wars lore in the back and said it’s all fanfic
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It really wasn’t handled well. It could have been done much better. Oh well, at least I don’t feel miserable about the new movies as Star Wars was already dead to me 😉
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hahahaha well I suppose that’s one way to look at the bright side 😉 I always have difficulty believing anything else in SW could be as bad as TLJ 😉
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Yeah, I haven’t brought myself to watch TLJ and I really doubt I ever will. That is not the Luke I know…
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Good call. I was really on the fence about it… and oh boy did I make a mistake finally caving there. It’s not Luke (Mark Hamill actually said in order to get into character, he pretended to be some other guy, not Luke)
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I think immortalizing them with pictures and thoughts here is a great way to mark the end of their lifetime by your side. Hopefully, the new SW books will grow to become as phenomenal as the first ones. 😮
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I really doubt the new ones will keep the flame alive. The movies are literally killing the fanbase and so the books don’t have a good base to springboard from 😦
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Would you give the none-trilogy movies a try or because they’re still under the Disney umbrella, you’ll pass on every single one of them? Like Rogue One, Solo, etc. ?
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I’m giving them all a pass. If the main movies had stayed true, I’d have watched any side movie, no matter how crappy. But with the new trilogy just crapping all over SW, no matter how good some of the side movies might be, I won’t be watching. My fandom is just done 😦
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