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I got rouge planet by Greg Bear, guess I have to read it then. Its about obi wan and Anakin. My first EU book.

Finti is branching out....better get the drinkbot ready.

Woooohooooo! Next thing you know he'll be reading NJO!

Well I never thought i would see the day!

Poor finti, how will he ever get free from the clutches of the EU? Only fire can purge him now.

(best Beavis voice) FIRE ! FIRE ! FIRE !
Heh heh heh heh heh...

Now I know the reason I didnt get in to the EU stuff, the book sucks big time. I`m halfway through and it is really bad.

thanks, finti, I knew there was a reason I don't buy eu books.

Read Greg Bear's Foundation book instead. Pure quality!


No, wait, that's not the word... RUBBISH! That's the word. All the no-Asimov Foundation books were rubbish. Well, to be fair, the last one was just dull. The others were pure (expletive deleted), not to metnion shamelessly ripped off from the authors OTHER works.

Thats what I feel with this book, Its like hmmm read about this thing somewhere else.

You picked a bad book to start with. I love reading EU books and that one is probably the worst I've read. You should have started with the Thrawn Trilogy, its very good. The New Jedi Order is the best, but its a bad starting spot, there is too much going on that you should already know about.

I agree J.O.. You should start with Thrawn, or something else. The young Han Trilogy and the Bounty Hunter Trillogy are great and they cover fimilar ground.

Just because one isnt worth kindeling for you fire dosnt mean the next one wont be great!

Keo, you still have to read your Hichikers guide, then start with one of the above books.

Untill next time, MTFBWY, and keep your towel handy

yes, Jameous, I will do that, one of these days.

I threw it away, it was just too bad of a book. No more EU books on SW, there are just to many other other excelent writers out there. John Grisham, David Baldacci, Ken Follet just to name a few. I read those authors and leave SW to the "silver" screen

The Thrawn trilogy wasn't that bad, quite amusing in fact. But let's face it, we don't love SW for it's literary qualities, now do we. I mean, even the novelisations aren't really superior literature...

actually, I'm canon; only the movies.

Derek Robinson, Neil Gaiman, even Bernard Cornwell in a patriotic sort of way...

What I think I can definitely say about the EU books is thar I never read one that actually felt like it was a Star Wars film, if you know what I mean. I don't mean that I hated them all, just that they did rather defitively feel like something different- and I don't think that they HAD to. Book authors just tend to be afraid of being as simplistic as something like an SW film.

I thought Shadows of the Empire had film qualitites about it, even Lucas liked it.

I agree that the SW books arent ever going to win a pulitzer prize, but they are fun to read and shouldn't all be compared to just one book. That's not giving it a chance. You just happend to pick up the second to worst book to ever bear the SW logo sence '81 when Han's and Lando's series came out. The worst sence then is The Crystal Star NEVER, repeat, NEVER read or even open that book! I say give another book a chance. The Thrwan series was great and I thought it moved like the films. I even had John Williams in my head when I read some of the X-Wing books.

And I keep everything I read in the EU strictly that, EU. Untill its on screen it's not official. But as a reader of the books, player of the WEG RPG, and the Decipher CCG, and the video games, I know alot about it, but also know where the line is drawn.

Like GL said on the TF.N april fools page, "Mara who!?!"

Who? Mara?

Well, it's just some aides to get a bit more of the SW experience.

I read bits and pieces of EU. I'm very selective about what I read. I haven't read Rogue Planet yet, though...

Yes, I'm VERY selective too. Not about the games though.

New Jedi Knight game coming! Woo-hoo!

yes! YES! YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

Can't wait.

Well, we'll have to, as they aren't planning to release it until April... which is of course a very profitable time to release...

Don't remind me.