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I've started reading through some of the old Star Wars novels, went looking for a place to talk about them and didn't find anywhere on the threads on the topic, so I figured I'd start a thread.
To establish a couple of basic guidelines for the thread, I figure two things:
One, I don't think that a split between a Legends thread and a Disney canon thread is necessary or even a good idea at the moment, mainly because of the current lack of Star Wars novel discussion. If things pick up enough to make such a split more useful this might be worth looking at again, but right now it seems best to just use a single thread for Star Wars novelage in general.
Two, given the sheer volume of material in each continuity, let alone both together, it's probably unrealistic to expect everyone to be familiar with all major plot elements or spoilers, so on the one hand we should probably at least be careful about writing spoilers, but on the other hand also expect that there will probably be spoilers here for things you care about.
And that's the introduction. To start an actual conversation... let's see, I read the old Thrawn trilogy for the first time over the past month and was very impressed, Zahn did a really good job with it. Thrawn was great, I liked the juxtaposition of his chessmaster always-a-step-ahead-of-everyone-else thing with the fact that the reader is also shown a gaping flaw in his plan early on due to him not knowing that Leia is Vader's daughter. Mara was pretty great also, I quite liked following her progress through her arc and dealing with the Emperor's leftover compulsions, she was very well fleshed out. Luke and Leia were also in top form.
I'm working through the Jedi Academy set right now. The first book was fun enough, but the main thing that stuck with me there was the jump from Luke walking across a lake of lava in one scene to Lando watching a dozen racing blobs going through a "blobstacle course" the next. It was a very memorable tone shift from epic adventure to semi-absurdist comedy. Fun, but, like, kind of jolting. I feel like it's something of a metaphor for the old EU as a whole.
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I've started reading through some of the old Star Wars novels, went looking for a place to talk about them and didn't find anywhere on the threads on the topic, so I figured I'd start a thread.
To establish a couple of basic guidelines for the thread, I figure two things:
And that's the introduction. To start an actual conversation... let's see, I read the old Thrawn trilogy for the first time over the past month and was very impressed, Zahn did a really good job with it. Thrawn was great, I liked the juxtaposition of his chessmaster always-a-step-ahead-of-everyone-else thing with the fact that the reader is also shown a gaping flaw in his plan early on due to him not knowing that Leia is Vader's daughter. Mara was pretty great also, I quite liked following her progress through her arc and dealing with the Emperor's leftover compulsions, she was very well fleshed out. Luke and Leia were also in top form.
I'm working through the Jedi Academy set right now. The first book was fun enough, but the main thing that stuck with me there was the jump from Luke walking across a lake of lava in one scene to Lando watching a dozen racing blobs going through a "blobstacle course" the next. It was a very memorable tone shift from epic adventure to semi-absurdist comedy. Fun, but, like, kind of jolting. I feel like it's something of a metaphor for the old EU as a whole.