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Xizor
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Books: What to read first and my top 10

Here is a list of the books to read first, if you haven't read any. Plus which books are decent and those you should stay away from. I'll give a little Bio of each one and my reasonings for picking it, plus the new characters it introduces:
1.) HEIR TO THE EMPIRE TRILOGY
- incredible NYT #1 best seller, features Thrawn, Mara Jade, Joruus C'Baoth, Talon Karrde, Gilad Pallaeon, Borsk Fey'lia and Garm Bel Iblis. After the first 5 chapters your hooked, I didn't put the books down for a week!
2.) SHADOWS OF THE EMPIRE
-START HERE, this book is not part of a trilogy and comes between ESB and Jedi. It most resembles the movie and Vader/Palpy are alive. Features PRINCE XIZOR, Dash Randar
and Guri, was supported by Lucas.
3.) THE HAN SOLO TRILOGY
-Great series, for fans of Han, Hutts and criminals. A young Han as a smuggler. features Bria Tharen, Shug Nix, Mako Spince and the Hutts Jabba, Durga and Jiliac. Xizor has a small rule, shows slavery and the orgin chwewie's
life debt.
4.) CORRELIAN TRILOGY
- Havn't read in a few years, great plot and storyline goes into Han's homeplanet. Features Han and Leia's kids in a great way. UBH seems to like them smile

5.) THE JEDI ACADEMY TRILOGY
- Second coming of Thrawn trilogy but less dinamic, goes into Jedi training and the Dark side, plus spice mines and the creation of super weapons. Features Admiral Daala, Kyp Durron, Moruth Doole, Jedi students, Qwi Xux and Exar Kun
6.) DARKSABER
- Does to JA trilogy what Shadows does to the original trilogy, but not as dynamic. Features Hutts and JAcademy stuff, Durga, Bevel Lemelisk and an awesome Daala/Pallaeon hookup w/ a super star destroyer.
8.) THE ROUGE SQUADRON SERIES
- Not suggested for those of you who want to see a strict plot line with the core characters, but it's loads of fun w/ Wedge and his X-Wing pals getting into scraps and dog fights.
9.) THE TRUCE AT BAKURA
- I liked it, but not suggested if you don't REALLY love EU, gets confusing at times but is real techno and intelligent. features Gareal Caprison, Ssi-Ruuk aliens and a Empire/Rebellion alliance to defeat a greater evil.
10.) THE BOUNTY HUNTER SERIES
- A rockin series that switches back and forth between Boba Fett and events after Jedi(and the Sarlacc) and Events after ANH. XIZOR, Vader and Palpy are featured spinning webs of lies and using the crumbling BH's guild to hurt the rebels. Many surpriding revelations as you go.

Decent books:
I, Jedi
The Courtship of Princess Leia
The New Rebellion(from what I've heard)

Not Suggested:
Children of the Jedi(I'm glad Kev Andrson eliminated Callista, Luke's "love intrest")
The Crystal Star
The Sheild of Lies Trilogy(You ca't get through tese books, I'll commend anyone who has)
Vector Prime(Chewie dies, not a lot else happens sad

)

Start with: Shadows, then Heir, then the Solo trilogy. If you still like the novels follow the chronological order you'll find in any EU book and go from there, avoiding the books I don't suggest. If you don't like to read AT ALL, read the Tales of Jabba's Palace before trying out Shadows. I hope this long topic was helpful to those of you who want to read, but don't know where to start.