Star Wars Novel Question?

[Idran]

Books are not sacred objects. The Jedi Prince novels especially so.

Not sacred, no, but if there's someone out there that would enjoy them, why not do something with them to give them an opportunity to get them? Like the earlier suggestions about donating them to Goodwill or the like. It's not really analgous to newspapers either, because as was said, newspapers are created with the intent to be disposable by what they are; they're not meant to be worth anything beyond the day in which they report the news.

I mean, perhaps the Jedi Prince books are trash, but some people like trashy fiction, and I'd never burn one when there's the chance that someone else out there might get some fun out of getting and reading one.

 

[timothy]

burning books especially star wars books is a form of facism and it reeks something the empire would do. plus has know one read fherinite 451.

 

[Thrawn]

Star Wars books have jumped the shark.

Yep.

Books are not sacred objects. The Jedi Prince novels especially so.

Yep.

 

[Corran Horn]

burning books especially star wars books is a form of facism and it reeks something the empire would do. plus has know one read fherinite 451.

Personally I wouldn't burn a book or even throw one out (unless it was worn to bits) but if you buy it you can do whatever you want with it.

 

[scnj]

Books are not sacred objects. The Jedi Prince novels especially so.

Sacred, perhaps not. But work still went into creating them. As for Jedi Prince, which you or I may not like them, we're not the intended audience. As I said previously, they pleased me when I was a child hungry for more Star Wars to follow in any form. If not for Jedi Prince, I might not have discovered the Zahn novels or the multitudes of others that I've read since.

As for burning the books, aside from being a complete waste of something that might bring joy to others, it's downright direspectful of the work that went into creating it and the author who put the work in. I guarantee that if it was the Zahn books being burned, the reaction would be nowhere near as positive.

 

[JD]

I loved the Jedi Prince series, when I was very young. They were some of the first chapter books and ever read, along with the Star Trek YA books, and no matter how good or bad they are they'll always hold a special place in my memory.

As for burning books, I'm definitely not a fan. There are plenty of ways to dispose of a book that will allow others who might like it to experience it. And I'm sorry, but whenever anyone says book burning, all I can think of is Nazis. Now, I'm not saying I think you are one, it's just the first thing that pops into my head when I hear about that.

 

[Yevetha]

By the way Allston decided to put the future Wraith book post-FOTJ.

Why did they let him get away with it?

The original idea was much better.

Come on, Ackbar VS Pelly...

 

[beamMe]

And I'm sorry, but whenever anyone says book burning, all I can think of is Nazis. Now, I'm not saying I think you are one,

Perhaps he's a New Yorker...

 

[Corran Horn]

By the way Allston decided to put the future Wraith book post-FOTJ.

Why did they let him get away with it?

The original idea was much better.

Come on, Ackbar VS Pelly...

I think there'll be flashbacks, at least.

 

[Yevetha]

Who cares.

Fotj, LOTF were a disaster.

Allsoton went nuts as far as i am concerned.

 

[Julio Angel Ortiz]

I'm in the minority in that I really enjoyed Legacy of the Force. It wasn't perfect, and there are things I didn't care for, but overall I thought it was an enjoyable story about the rise and fall of Darth Caedus (Jacen Solo). A few problems that immediately spring to mind have to do with the finale: the last book was too short and pushed the Galactic Civil War into the background, and it felt rushed to have Jaina be the one to take down Caedus, when it really should have been Ben. I always felt he was the Legacy in the series' title, but instead, the title was about... nothing.

And I'm liking Fate of the Jedi, even if I was sick of young Jedi going crazy by the 3rd book. Abeloth is a cool threat and the Lost Tribe are an interesting twist on the concept.

Now, Millennium Falcon I didn't care for at all, and same with Crosscurrent (although I may give the latter another chance...).

 

[Yevetha]

Crosscurent was great. Try it.

As far as i am concerned the big 3 needs to die or a bloody break in terms of galactic conflicts.

Please dont tell me Daala as COS was a good idea.

 

[Thrawn]

I'm in the minority in that I really enjoyed Legacy of the Force. It wasn't perfect, and there are things I didn't care for, but overall I thought it was an enjoyable story about the rise and fall of Darth Caedus (Jacen Solo). A few problems that immediately spring to mind have to do with the finale: the last book was too short and pushed the Galactic Civil War into the background, and it felt rushed to have Jaina be the one to take down Caedus, when it really should have been Ben. I always felt he was the Legacy in the series' title, but instead, the title was about... nothing.

My problem was that Jacen became evil, and that moment was presented as this amazing sense of power and clarity where he was suddenly able to see it all and be this brilliant tactician. And then in the very next book, he was an incompetent moustache-twirling villain who did stupid things for no reason except to be eeeevil...and then got totally punked by Luke who could have killed him and didn't for NO REASON except there were three more books in the series.

It took a grand gesture and turned it into an absolute farce, and then prolonged it even further for no reason. And THEN, Luke, the guy who redeemed Vader, gives up on Jacen entirely and doesn't even have the stones to go confront him himself.

Grr. I'm actually still a little pissed about this. Jacen was one of my favorite characters, and I *loved* the idea of him becoming a Sith. It was such a brilliantly weird place to take the character. Until: it was cliched, undeveloped, and deployed with no sense of import, pacing, or subtlety.

I don't imagine I'll ever read another Star Wars novel taking place after that.

 

[JWolf]

We have the movies. We have the animated series. We have the Zahn books. The rest can go away as none of it matters.

 

[Yevetha]

It would be funny if the Live action would end up contradicting the Clon Wars.

It could happen knowing Lucas.

 

[Christopher]

It would be funny if the Live action would end up contradicting the Clon Wars.

It could happen knowing Lucas.

It's not about Lucas. It's the prerogative of any creator to rethink one's old ideas and contradict them for the sake of a new story. Lots of writers and filmmakers do the same. A number of novelists have gone back and rewritten their early novels, or simply retconned some of their earlier ideas away in later books of the same series. Larry Niven did it to some extent in Known Space. Poul Anderson went back in the '70s and rewrote some of his '50s stories to be more scientifically plausible and more consistent with his later works. David Gerrold has completely rewritten several of his novels. And TV producers do it too. When Roddenberry was making TNG, he considered much of TOS and the movies apocryphal and wanted TNG to supersede them. Heck, he was rewriting Trek history as early as ST:TMP, when he changed the design of the Klingons and told fans to accept that they'd always looked that way, and that what we'd seen in TOS was just a flawed presentation.

 

[Yevetha]

Sure, lets hope that whatever comes up can be retconned.

 

[Valin]

Just stick with Timothy Zahn.

I'd add Stackpole. Also Allston's X-Wing novels are very funny and enjoyable.

Pretty much the rest of SW's fiction is hit-or-miss (with much more misses than hits).

 

[Yevetha]

Crispin wrote a great Han Solotrilogy.

Also recommand Stover Shadows of Mondor.

 

[zarkon]

Having read all the new republic era books, I enjoyed all the zahn books, the tales of..., the x-wing books, courtship, and the black fleet & Corellia trilogies. I Jedi was ok.

I also enjoyed Shadows of the Empire & the Ylesia trilogy, which although set ealier, were from the same era of star wars book writing(which I feel took a huge dive in quality with the advent of the New Jedi Order books starting in '99).