Yes. The Givin are highly proficient in math, and one of them figures into the plot in a big way. It’s just a bit of visual flair in the ebook and print versions. I’m not sure if the audio version does anything with it.
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Star Wars rebel agent. First Kyle Katarn book was fun, only very short.
After the third dark forces book, are there more Star Wars books where Kyle Katarn has a big role?
After the third dark forces book, are there more Star Wars books where Kyle Katarn has a big role?
Not really. He gets a couple cameo mentions in some of the EU books down the line, but is never featured in his own novels. I have those William Dietz Kyle Katarn books and really dislike them. They just don't feel at all like SW to me.
I have read a lot of Star Wars books and his books feels so far very different, but it has Kyle Katarn so. Have you or anybody here read the new Jedi order books? Are they as bad as I have read/heard?
The NJO is pretty bad, even the books written by good authors. The overall SW Legends EU is very hit and miss. Anything by Mike Stackpole or Timothy Zahn is pretty good, IMO. For the rest, I found the quality to be pretty inconsistent.
I have read the New Jedi Order books a few times. For me, the best ones are Vector Prime, Dark Tide, Edge of Victory, Rebel Stand, Traitor, and Destiny's Way. The Unifying Force has some great moments but goes on for far too long (which I guess I could say about Star by Star or the whole NJO series, too). Traitor is a real love-it-or-hate-it book and is kind of the outlier of the series.
My advice for almost any of the Star Wars books and series is to read a chapter or two. If you are liking it, then keep going. Otherwise, find something else that you like more and read that. There is enough Star Wars material that you will not run out.
My advice for almost any of the Star Wars books and series is to read a chapter or two. If you are liking it, then keep going. Otherwise, find something else that you like more and read that. There is enough Star Wars material that you will not run out.
Or just pick up an anthology.
Maybe I will try some of those books, and the ones written bij Mathew stover and James luceno. I like their Star Wars books that I have read
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I have a General rule of thumb when it comes to EU novels: if it centres around the original movie cast as a group: avoid. Zahn is the only one that used them together effectively, and let's be honest; even then those books were just OK.
Where the EU always shone was when it went off in it's own direction, either expending on more obscure characters and concepts, or inventing something entirely new. Still wildly inconsistent in terms of quality and tone, but you're more likely to find something interesting there than anywhere else.
Where the EU always shone was when it went off in it's own direction, either expending on more obscure characters and concepts, or inventing something entirely new. Still wildly inconsistent in terms of quality and tone, but you're more likely to find something interesting there than anywhere else.
Dietz is kind of notoriously a hack writer. There's a reason he's mostly only known for writing video game tie-in novels. Hell, his 'Mass Effect' one was so terrible it got unanimously decanonised by the fandom, and prompted Bioware to promise a corrected reissue (which never materialised.)
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I liked it.
The most Disney era books are about the sequel era books right? I don't like the sequel movies so I don't think those books are for me
New Mace Windu novel announced, set between Episodes 1 and 2
https://www.starwars.com/news/the-glass-abyss
There's also a bunch set in the High Republic era, which is about 350 years before episode 1
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_books#Canon
https://www.starwars.com/news/the-glass-abyss
No, most novels are set during PT, OT or in between.
There's also a bunch set in the High Republic era, which is about 350 years before episode 1
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_books#Canon
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In that case I didn't look good enough.
I have read the adult high Republic books, they are good
I recall liking things about it, even brought it with me on vacation one year, but I definitely had some issues with the writing.
It felt as if the first two or three(?) chapters were written at a different time from the rest of the book. Specifically it felt like the new droid type was handled inconsistently. Kit Fisto fights one in the beginning and it seems to have deflector shields, like a droideka, but later on they're different, or at least the prose describing them is. And the author had this weird tic in writing the action scenes, where it was always three action verbs in succession separated by commas.
I believe this book was the place where Ventress lost one of her lightsabers and she later turned up in comics as a single-saber wielder.
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