Um... Reader of the Books?

[Majimaune]

Are there any readers of the books out there? Not the ones writen after 2000 though, all the Jedi Apprentice stuff but the good stuff that is based in the time of the movies and after the movies. Like Truce At Bakura or the X-wing seires. Stuff like that.

[purple_kathryn]

before and after. I don't read the stuff based on the "new" movies if thats what you mean? But I really liked the new jedi order stories.

[Winters_Sorrow]

The last one I read was Shatterpoint but it wasn't very good. I had trouble with the whole underlying concept of Mace Windu's "special power" and form 5 fighting style and all that nonense. I think it's making the whole universe and the jedi in particular a bit too caricatured.

I did enjoy the Timothy Zahn "Empire Rising" trilogy as that 'humanised' Luke a little more and showed his flaws and faults and gave a little more depth to his character. Conversly I think Han Solo was much 'nicer' in the books than he was in the film but there you are.

[Majimaune]

The ones after the movies are the better ones I think.

I havent read the Empire Rising trilogy yet but am planning to in the near future.

[Silent Speaker]

When I was younger, I had bought a lot of paperbacks that I had never gotten around to reading (Jedi Academy trilogy, Darksaber, Children of the Jedi, The New Rebellion etc.). I've been going through them at the moment, I might as well read them, they have been lying around for a while :P. I'd like to see how things have been going beyond the NJO (read them up to just before Star by Star).

The EU is a mixed bag. There are those who prefer the work of Tim Zahn or the more optimistic products of KJ Anderson, but at the moment (or so) the favourite appears to be Matt Stover (haven't gotten up to reading his work yet).

Starwars books are an old standby for me. Whenever I have nothing else to read (or no money to purchase :P) I can always fall back on where I left off, somewhere in the timeline.

I'm up to the Crystal Star at the moment in my mouldy unread pile, and it sure does, well, suck! ;( The style is stagnant and the plot is more star trek than star wars :P

[ScottSF]

Heir to the Empire was ok, the Jedi search trilogy was just awful. There was a corellian one with the Solo Kids that I found more clever than the first two post-Vader trilogies. I think they were on to something with the New Jedi Order. Not all of the books are great but at least there is some cooperation between the different authors to give it consistancy. The thing I liked best about the Post Vader books is the Mara Jade story lines. The most disappointing part was Leah. I've always liked her but they never really developed her force skills in any of the books I read. She never had time.

The other thing that's odd now is that the prequels contradict a lot of the stuff from the books. Like, luke freaked out when he discovered they were under attack by a bunch of cloned storm troopers but acording to the movies all storm troopers are clones. Also one character had a brother who was a storm trooper and a completely different group of people built the death star. The new Jedi order books are removed enough from the Vader Star Wars time that they don't have as many of those sorts of distractions. I do want to continue with Balancing Point and that whole extra-galactic invasion but I have so much on my reading list that I don't see getting to them any time soon. Maybe I can get injured at work someday so I can read them all as I recover. No! actually I shouldn't wish injury upon myself just to have more reading time, better to read faster.

[Majimaune]

Theres six of the SW books that I really want to read in the near future. The two Han Solo Trilodgys.

[carrie221]

Right after the remakes came out in 1997, I read those books and the ones that came after it. I haven't read any that were written after 1999 except for the ones based on the movies.

The majority of the ones that I read all took place after Ep 6. The ones that deal with Han and Leia and their kids I though were pretty good. I also read the ones about the solo twins and their friends which were YA books.

[TK-421]

I've erad about 15 of them so far and I haven't even gotten to the New Jedi Order series yet.
I've read:
Cloak of Deception
Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter
Rogue Planet
The Approaching Storm
Splinter of the Mind's Eye
Shadows of the Empire
The Truce at Bakura
The Courtship of Princess Leia
Heir to the Empire
Dark Force Rising
The Last Command
Jedi Search
Dark Apprentice
Champions of the Force
Tattoine Ghost

Reading I,Jedi by Michael Stackpole right now. Not bad. The first one I've read that in the first person. Recently finished the Jedi Academy Trilogy.

[Joel007]

X-Wing Series, All of Timothy Zahn's books. There are a few other good ones, but these are the best imsieo (in my self-inflated egotistical opinion)

well, its more honest than "imho"

[Majimaune]

Im actually in the middle of reading the X wing seires. I think I just finished Solo Command.

[Robertbert]

I've read all of the Han/Luke/Leia novels...And most of them are between Good and Fantastic...Except for a few that are crap...Most of which turn up in the NJO...I thought that was a horrible series...Far too depressing...But this new Aaron Allston (my fave SW author) one Betrayal is fantastic...

[Mark Robson]

I remember reading the very early books: those that related to the first three films released. I also read 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye', which I seem to recall was written by Alan Dean Foster, and then a few of the Han Solo books: Han Solo at Star's End, Han Solo and the Lost Legacy etc. They were OK, but I never went any further than that. It became a bit too much like a soap opera for me.

[Ice Queen]

I read some. My favorite SW author is Michael Reaves (Medstar and Darth Maul: Shadowhunter). I also like Stackpole's X-Wing series and plan to read the Han Solo Trilogy soon.

[Majimaune]

Ah yes. The main ones that I have read are X-wing series.