Thrawn Trilogy

The Hand of Thrawn consists of two book: Specter of the Past and Vision of the Future. I belive they are still in print, but since I don't live in the US I cant answer that.

The New Jedi Order (we usualy refer to it as NJO) is the newest Star wars books (at least in time) and is about the Yuushan Vong (spelling) invasion. The NJO books are set 25 year after ANH I think.

Spoiler:
It is also in this series Chewie dies.

yeah the duology is still in print. I saw it today when picking up the others. How do you like NJO? Do you have them all? Have you read any of ther stuff like Shadows of the Empire, or the Jedi Academy trilogy?

I liked the three NJO books I've read and are planing to read the rest. No I do not have all of them as I said in my previous post, I only have the three I've read.
I've not read Shadows of teh Empire, but I know some other here have read it, perhaps they can say something about that one. Or u could just open a thread about it.
I've read the Jedi Academy trilogy and they were good, not as good as the Thrawn books, but still good. I think it could be nice to read some of the Tales of teh Jedi comics before reading them. As they give some more background information on Exar Kun.

I'm up to Ch.6 on Heir. Not bad, though I am starting to see why Lucas won't let other people make Star Wars movies.

Call me crazy but i think the books without Jedi are better, at least the ones which only have Luke are much better (although i did enjoy that children series, with jacen and anakin and etc)

I find otherwise that the Jedi in the other books are ridiclously overpowered, rending apart spaceships, controlling the minds of hundreds of people, seems a bit silly to me.

Are you talking about the NJO Jerico, or something else?

Whoa its been so long since I last read the Thrawn trilogy I no longer have the slightest clue as to what happened in it. But i have read the Spectre of the Past and Vision of the future recently they're really really good. I like the ending of it (and I dont mean the treaty, i mean the other thing) although I do think that it seems rather sudden..... perhaps a little bit more development could have gone into that area.

I agree that a lot of the Jedi books are way too overpowered and I'd much rather read something like the x-wing series or the hand of thrawn

I am now off the steal.... ahem..... *borrow* the thrawn books off my brother so that I can read them again.

Originally posted by Jerico
I find otherwise that the Jedi in the other books are ridiclously overpowered, rending apart spaceships, controlling the minds of hundreds of people, seems a bit silly to me.

😑 if this type of stuff is going on Im going to quit while Im ahead, thats just stupid IMHO.

Originally posted by Jerico
Call me crazy but i think the books without Jedi are better, at least the ones which only have Luke are much better (although i did enjoy that children series, with jacen and anakin and etc)

I find otherwise that the Jedi in the other books are ridiclously overpowered, rending apart spaceships, controlling the minds of hundreds of people, seems a bit silly to me.

that's not crazy at all...I absolutely hate the Force (well...carried to that extreme, anyways) and am quite grateful for little things like ysalamari that inhibit such Force use...

the X-Wing series is amazing; I love the politics behind the squadrons' operations.

The Thrawn Trilogy is amazing, props to Zahn on that one.

The Hand of Thrawn is pretty good as well; the Xerrol Nightstinger is a very good addition to Star Wars weaponry.

Yes! Hoorah for the x-wing series. Personally I think Stackpole is a genius... although I do think he went a bit over the top in I, Jedi. I mean, he wrote an entire novel based on another book about a character who wasnt even mentioned, and yet seemed to play a very major part in the goings on at the academy.

I can see why GL didnt want other ppl doing his movie for him; we would have had whole armies of jedi moving planets about and all sorts of things.