EU - Non-Absurd books.

To quote myself from another thread.

There is SOME EU that I do indeed like. There is a book by Kristine Kathryn Rusch: The New Rebellion that I really enjoyed. It presents a real situation, with no absurdly overpowered Jedi. I thought it was a very good book. If all EU was written like this, I'd enjoy it. But sadly I find that more of it is not like this and is just too absurd for me to take seriously and therefore too absurd for me to enjoy. Star Wars isn't supposed to be about Super beings who can throw stars and crap like that.

So I was actually wondering if you guys could tell me of some Star Wars books that were not absurd, and were true to Star Wars (The movies). I feel like reading a good Star Wars book, but its not easy to find a good one that isn't just ridiculously dumb. (imo)

So any suggestions? Has anyone read "The New Rebellion"? Because thats the kinda book I'm talking about.

"My good your still alive."

You'd probably enjoy Labyrinth of Evil... 😉

SotE

I would suggest the Clone Wars novel, excepting Jedi Trial, which was horrible.

I just finished "Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader" takes place about a month after ep. 3. Alot of cool revelations in it.

I thought it was a good read.

Frankly, I thouroughly enjoyed that one with Warlord Zsinj, can't remember what it's called, but it's with Wraith Squadron, and the Razor's Kiss SSD.

From what I've read, you'd like Labyrinth of Evil and Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader.

Originally posted by Nactous
"My good your still alive."

1) My God, you're still alive, Nactous...
2) My God, you still can't spell...

Try Revenge of the sith~ you will love it! 🙂

Have a pretty complete list~ if you ever need a suggestion~

Oh, and Shatterpoint.

The Approaching Storm was good.

you would like I,Jedi.

Originally posted by ladyjedi05
Try Revenge of the sith~ you will love it! 🙂

Ahhh as good as that book is, I'm not looking for books on the movies. I've seen the movies WAYYYYYY too many times to read about them.

Anyways, I ALMOST bought Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader but I wasn't sure about it.

And I've heard Shatter point and Labyrinth of evil are good as well (as you guys have suggested)

But I was actually looking for non-PT books. Something post ROTJ.

or are most of those not very good?

The post-OT books tend to be very hit or miss, and on the ridiculous end of things.

However, the Thrawn trilogy is very good.

Humm? I'm a huge Star Wars movie buff, but I've been kinda feeling like reading something outside the movies is all. And "The new Rebellion" I've read twice. And it was post OT, so I'm looking for Post OT books mainly because they've given me the best EU experience thus far is all.

But I'll read the for-mentioned books you guy have suggested.

And how long is the Admiral Thrawn series?

A trilogy would suggest that it's three books 😉

Just that when it comes to post-OT books and PT-era ones, the post-OT ones have a lot more crap. And NJO just enters the realm of complete preposterousness.

hahaha, I miseed the "trilogy part" 😛

Humm, a shame though. Oh well, Guess I'll have to read PT stuff. I love the PT but I'm kinda sick of it at the moment, having watched ROTS constantly. Kinda felt like some OT mojo. lol

Anyways, thanks.

Definitely Thrawn Trilogy. And whatever the trilogy was after that....Jedi Academy Trilogy or whatever it was called...that was pretty good. No uber Jedi/Sith in sight.

If you're into comics as well, the Republic series is good. And some of the Star Wars Tales, are good for a 'What if...' story, even if they are completely out of whack canon wise (eg. Darth Maul vs Darth Vader).

I never read the NJO series, the Yuuzang Vong (sp?) were a bit of a put off for me. It sounded like Dragonball Z - the heroes have won and are strong, but then some uber powerful villains will come in, so the heroes will become even stronger....meh, not into that.

But yeah, the Thrawn trilogy is more about tactical strategies using the remains of the Empire's fleet and military, rather than some super weapon of mass destruction.

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