You know, the one where old Lando travelled back in time from the future to stop a disgruntled miner, angry at him for not saving Romulus and tries to kill Han Solo the day he was born...
Ah I see now, well as none of this actually happened as they're all stories, I don't see why they can't all be made up in different timelines, or continuity or what not.
I don't get it, what's the "Legacy's timeline"? If you're referring to the "Legacy" era of Star Wars Legends (30+ years afer the movies), Thrawn wasn't in those materials.
I finished Thrawn. Overall, I liked it a lot. Looking at it fairly helped a lot. It wasn't perfect, but it was very good. I'd put it up there with Tarkin. I think it suffered a bit from the time jumps, Spoiler: Tarkin one or two were kind of jarring (the one at the end with Vanto seemed to come out of nowhere), and Pryce's stuff, while it had a good pay off, took a bit to get going. Still, besides that, a solid effort. In the same spirit of "I should stop being stupid and give things a chance", I got a very good deal on Bloodline from Amazon. If both New Dawn and Thrawn could surprise me, once I gave them a fair chance, I figured I should give all the new canon books (that I can legitimately get without too much trouble) a fair shot. Plus, it didn't cost too much so even if its not my kind of book I won't be out too much. I would have gotten Dark Disciple first, but I put in a request for the public library to buy it so I'm crossing my fingers for that. Speaking of the library, I just noticed while checking its site that its holding the Rogue One art book for me to pick up. that should be cool. I also have two legends books I got used a while ago to read (the second Coruscant Nights book and Yoda: Dark Rendezvous), which I'll probably read after Bloodline unless the library gets Dark disciple before that.
I can kind of see what you mean about the time jumps. I think these "biography" novels that give a character's backstory (like Thrawn, Tarkin, Plagueis, etc.) can be tricky, since the author needs to leave space for future stories to be told and come up with a larger narrative so it's not just a chain of events in a character's life. For my money, I think A.C. Crispin's Han Solo Trilogy did it the best. I've browsed through the art book before and want to read more about it. What I remember was good. I recall the Coruscant Nights books being fun. If you like those, you'll probably want to find The Last Jedi (no, not the movie ). Although not under the Coruscant Nights umbrella, it's the fourth and final book of the series. Dark Rendezvous can be slow in places and has suffered more than other novels from The Clone Wars TV show overwriting parts of it, but it has, in my mind, some really great material with Yoda and Dooku that's more than worth the price of admission. I also really liked the Scout character, for what it's worth.
I loved that Han Solo trilogy. Some of my favorite old EU books. I'm excited for the Han Solo movie, but I doubt it will be as good as the trilogy (although it will still probably be good or even great). Wait, that's where Scout is from? I only know her as an enjoyable side character in Karen traviss's Imperial Commando novel. Now I'm even more interested in reading the book.
On the advice of somebody on a Star Wars board I recently read the short story collection Tales Of The Bounty Hunters. I thought it was pretty good, about half of it went in the head canon. I was surprised by how violent the IG-88 story was right out of the gate, but it was a great story and I enjoyed it right up until the Death Star stuff. Which was still fun but a little over-the-top. Boba Fett's story doesn't match up with the PT canon at all (I think this book was from '97), which is fine with me as I don't pay the PT much attention but I wasn't really a fan of this depiction either. I just prefer him to be a mystery, it had an awesome ending though. Bossk's story was OK and I really liked the Zuckuss/4-LOM story. I wasn't big on the Dengar story though, I don't think I've ever seen/read a whole lot about him before and I never really cared to. As a kid he always looked to me like the point where they ran out of their Bounty Hunter Costume Budget and they just wrapped a sheet around a pudgy guy's head. He was also one of my least favorite action figures so I wasn't really looking for a story where he's a tragic hero and has a love story.
For what it's worth, Lucas's notion for Boba Fett was always that he was a left over clone wearing Mandalorian Supercommando armor. Also that the Mandalorians (from whom Boba did NOT originate) were a very martial, regimented culture with a long tradition of producing highly skilled fighters (not the ridiculous space vikings from the EU) though the history of bumping heads with the Jedi was still a thing IIRC. Think something along the lines of the Swordsmen of Ginaz from Dune. The canon seems to have transposed some of the old EU Boba material to Jango, with some mention that he claims to come from Concorde Dawn, possibly as a Protector (though I'm less sure of that.)
Yep, in fact I think the character was originally created for the Yoda book. At any rate, she's a major POV character in it. As far as Legends went, they did work to reconcile the story with the rest of the post-prequel tie-ins. The end result is that the story did happen but some minor details aren't quite accurate, but considering how many different sources were welded together, it makes more sense then you'd think. I think "No Disintegrations, Please" (from Tales Form the New Republic) was the best.
When it comes to Boba Fett stories, I always really liked the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy. I liked how it portrayed Boba, it had some interesting side characters, a really cool alien (the spider-like information broker is one of the cooler very non-human aliens in the old EU to me) and I just liked the story overall. If nothing else, if they ever make a Boba Fett movie set after RotJ, I'd hope they'd look at the scene in the first BHW book where he escapes from the sarlaac. We don't see him do it, but the description of the aftermath and how he's found is something I think would be cool to see in a movie.
Read the book, but I didn't like it that much. For one thing, I wanted more of the actual Bounty Hunter Wars than the post-ROTJ stuff. The broker alien was interesting, though.
I thought the Darth Bane trilogy was pretty decent, by Drew Karpashyan I believe. I wish he'd done some follow up novels. The "Old Republic" novels tying into the KOTOR games werent bad either, but as I have little time or patience for gameplay and much prefer reading, I would have liked to see a more fleshed out novel-series. The last Timothy Zahn novel I read was the "Oceans Eleven" story with Han, Lando and a bunch of crooks, lottsa fun, but it does stretch plausibility a bit.
I liked both parts of the book a lot, although I probably favored the post RotJ stuff a bit more. The trilogy was the books that made me a fan of Boba Fett.
Fair enough; I was going in under the impression that the pre-ROTJ stuff was the main focus, so that didn't help. It also seemed like the timeline of events didn't really mesh that well with the other books, not to mention a few discrepancies between then, which in some cases make the book seem really odd.