Star Wars books
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  • Posted On: Aug 27 2011 2:14am
So here I am packing up to move to an apartment with my girlfriend and packing up everything else in my room so my parents can renovate it. Was doing a count on my Star Wars books to see how many I had (and so they could get packed in boxes together). I've got over 90 of them. I felt a little sad inside at that realization, but also kind of accomplished. Almost got 100.


Hmm, as I think about it, I guess if I count the Dark Empire Comics as 1 (as I've got it all in 1 hardcover book) and the essential guide books I might be at 100. Go go nerdness! I never really thought of how much I had till I was going through packing them all up.
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  • Posted On: Aug 27 2011 6:47am
Wow that's a lot.

I probably have about 5 or 6. (SW encyclopedia, some essential guidebooks etc)

Those were bought as a response to joining the SW RPing community, as I have only ever seen the films.

I still haven't gotten round to reading a single EU novel. I will one day, heh.


Hope everything goes well with the move. ;)
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  • Posted On: Aug 27 2011 2:11pm
I suggest you start with the Thrawn Trilogy. 20th anniversary edition of Heir to the Empire releases on the 6th of September!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Wars-Heir-Empire-Anniversary/dp/0345528298/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1314454222&sr=8-4
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  • Posted On: Aug 27 2011 3:26pm
I started with the Jedi Academy Trilogy. My big brother had bought them at a used bookstore just to see what a Star Wars book was like, and told me I might like them. I read more than seventy of them before a combination of the New Jedi Order series and the Swarm War convinced me that the EU had become too retarded to handle. Now, reading Wookieepedia articles about Jacen Solo and the Confederation have only solidified that belief further.

I really should go back and read Jedi Academy again, just to see if it really is as awesome as I remember it being.
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  • Posted On: Aug 27 2011 11:31pm
I'm still reading the current series (up to Apocalypse in the Fate of the Jedi series) but mostly only to see what happens to my favorite characters. I'm down to three favorite characters, with at least one probably going to be killed off in Apocalypse.
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  • Posted On: Aug 29 2011 5:19am
I have close to 100 though now I am slowing down a lot. I cant handle the garbage they are writing. From the Legacy of the Force to Fate of the Jedi it just makes me ill
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  • Posted On: Aug 29 2011 12:55pm
here's a question for you guys.. out of all the authors they have writing the SW books, who do you think handled it the best? I mean, most of them are writing out of their genre when they take on SW, since almost all of the authors I've seen Lucas use are more fantasy lit instead of scifi lit...
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  • Posted On: Aug 29 2011 1:08pm
Honestly, Timothy Zahn. The Thrawn Trilogy is equal in story quality to the original movies.

Apart from him, Matthew Stover is also a very good writer that does an excellent job at Star Wars. He wrote the NJO book Traitor, which I have not read but heard excellent things about, and the Clone Wars novel Shatterpoint, which I have read and is just a phenomenal read. I also hear good things about Drew Karpyshyn, author of the Darth Bane books.
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  • Posted On: Aug 29 2011 6:02pm
I must agree with Zark on Zahn's work. Magnificent. I'm a fan of Stackpole as well, but Zahn is the man.

As for me, I think I have like 25 books. Maybe 30.
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  • Posted On: Aug 29 2011 10:08pm
I've read several of Stackpole's X-Wing books, and really enjoyed them. My thoughts on him are that he's not the best writer in the world, but hes a damned fine storyteller. I tend to cringe a bit at his dialogue and prose, but he's extremely good at keeping you engaged and turning the pages just to find out what happens next. Also, he's very good at writing dogfights, even if hes so detailed about it that I don't know what the hell is going on without having to draw a map in my head to keep track.

Plus, the X-Wing series is also a great place to start, along with the Thrawn Trilogy, as it details events immediately following the original trilogy, and sheds a lot of light on the downfall of the Empire post-Endor. Stackpole does a really great job at realistically portraying the dissolution of such a vast governmental body, while still maintaining that level of uncertainty as to whether or not this fledgling New Republic will actually last against such a still-potent war machine.