thenumberthirteen said:
MelasZepheos said:
thenumberthirteen said:
MelasZepheos said:
thenumberthirteen said:
I'm enjoying the New Jedi Order series of Star wars books at the moment. Vector Prime brought a tear to my eye
Stop reading when you finish
The Unifying Force. Just trust me on that.
Are you saying don't read the Dark Nest trilogy, or that I should stop reading books altogether?
I'm saying that as far as I'm concerned the Star Wars Expanded Universe started with
Jedi Apprentice, ended with
The Unfying Force, and after that moment the book publishing wing of LucasArts is now being run by the same pack of wild gibbons who seem to hate everything Star Wars related and wish to see it burn and die.
Or to be a little less hysterical, once you've read
Traitor and
Destiny's Way, in order to believe that the events of
Legacy of the Force would stand even the remotest chance of happening you apparently had your brain inserted on opposite day. I have never seen such a complete misinterpretation of a character arc than what happens during the course of every book following
The Unifying Force.
Whoever gave the go-ahead to write it was a moron, and whoever they got to write it was an even bigger moron. I recently had the chance to rearrange my library, and the only books I threw away were
The Dark Nest Trilogy and
The Legacy of the Force. The only books. Out of a personal library of hundreds. The only books.
Having read LotF before reading New Jedi Order I expect to feel reverse loathing for that series then.
I don't really intend to read all the Star wars books (and looking at Wikipedia that would take a bloody age) so do you know any good ones to read after I finish NJO? Though I'm only a quarter of the way through the 20 book series so that may take a while (what with other books coming out I want to read). I've already read the Legacy of the Force series, am up-to-date on the Fate of the Jedi, Darth Bane trilogy, and Survivor's Quest.
EDIT: Oh, and Death Troopers, Red Harvest, and the two Old Republic novels so far.
The Jedi Apprentice books aren't too bad, some of them are in fact excellent, so if you can still find any of them, I'd definitely recommend reading up to at least book 8 (it's the story of pre-TPM Qui-Gonn and Obi-Wan) My favourite was book 9, as it introduces a character who is very important to Obi's backstory, and if you take the EU as canon, is basically the entire reason he thinks that Jedi falling in love is so dangerous.
The novelisation of Episode 3, written by the same guy who wrote Traitor, my favourite SWEU novelist Matthew Woodring Stover, is so much better than the movie you might actually start thinking some of the concepts in the book really did come from the movie, and you'll realise just how good Episode 3 could have been.
The Courtship of Princess Leia is one of the flagship books of the EU, and should be read by anyone who really likes the Han Solo/Princess Leia thing. I personally also liked the Jedi Academy books, which were among the first published.
Also, do finish out the Yuuzhan Vong series. it gets a bit irritating in the middle, somewhere around Star By Star, but then comes the phenomenally good Traitor, and after that it is just basically concentrated awesome until the very end.
And my final recommendation, which I cannot give enough praise to, are the X-Wing series of books, specifically the last three, Wraith Squadron, Iron Fist and Solo Command. They deal with the events directly leading up to The Courtship of Princess Leia, but were published after, so you can read them in either order, and either have the Courtship make total sense, or have the X-Wing series shed surprising light on what happened in Courtship.
That's about my favourites. There's a couple of other quite good series, but nothing I consider to be really really good, more a fun read that might add some nice extras to the universe.
If you're really strapped for cash, then in order of which to buy first
X-Wing Series starting with Wraith Squadron
The Courtship of Princess Leia
The Yuuzhan Vong books
The Ep 3 Novelisation
The Jedi Apprentice series.
