Favorite EU Book

I know there's too many to count, but does anyone have a favorite book from the EU, one that sticks out apart from the rest which you really enjoyed?

Annihilation
The Entire Bane Trilogy
Darth Plageuis
Decieved

Are all come to mind

Revenge of the Sith.

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Originally posted by WildBantha88
The Entire Bane Trilogy

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Only the first Bane book is good, imo.

Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Then Revenge of the Sith, Shatterpoint, Cloak of Deception, and The Unifying Force in no particular order.

Darth Bane Trilogy, Darth Plagueis, and Book of the Sith.

First Bane novel and FOTJ series are my favorite Star Wars novels.
Worst are probably Plagueis and Rendezous. Too slow and boring.

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
First Bane novel and FOTJ series are my favorite Star Wars novels.
Worst are probably Plagueis and Rendezous. Too slow and boring.

Not sure if serious...

Seriously, though, never understood the love of the Bane books. They are horribly written, the first reads like a video game, the second and third have virtually no plot at all, and Bane is about as deep as a puddle after a spring shower.

Originally posted by ares834
Bane is about as deep as a puddle after a spring shower.

A spring shower that he is too slow to deflect 😂

I did enjoy the first Bane book. I agree the others don't have much of a plot, though.

Good choices all around though. 👆

Originally posted by ares834
Not sure if serious...

Originally posted by The_Tempest
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous by farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Then Revenge of the Sith, Shatterpoint, Cloak of Deception, and The Unifying Force in no particular order.

This sums up mine perfectly.

So glad no one said Revan Novel, easily the worst. Not just because of what it did to Meetra, just in general.

Shatterpoint
Crosscurrent

Id also like to point out(for those that may not know) that The Unifying Force is the final book in a series spanning around 20 books. You will miss a lot if you skip all of the previous books, some is best missed and some is a good read.

Originally posted by Vorpal Ruin
Shatterpoint
Crosscurrent

Id also like to point out(for those that may not know) that The Unifying Force is the final book in a series spanning around 20 books. You will miss a lot if you skip all of the previous books, some is best missed and some is a good read.

Awesome, I actually haven't read Crosscurrent. Kemp though, it should be great!

Thanks!

Originally posted by Trocity
I know there's too many to count, but does anyone have a favorite book from the EU, one that sticks out apart from the rest which you really enjoyed?

The book I most enjoyed is FOTJ: Conviction, with Yoda: Dark Rendezvous coming in a close second.

I also liked FOTJ: Apocalypse. Yes, I know it had a lot of problems but seeing the supreme masters of the Jedi and the Sith team up to defeat an Eldritch Abomination had me on the edge of my seat.

(Of course I mean the supreme masters alive at that point).

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
Anyone who says they made it through the Plagueis novel without stabbing themselves is lying out of their ass.

Plagueis is overrated but it's 10x better than the Bane Trilogy.

Originally posted by The_Tempest
Plagueis is overrated but it's 10x better than the Bane Trilogy.

You... didn't like Scout?

But she's so cool. She grabbed a trainingsaber with her bare hands.

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
The first Bane novel wasn't well written, I agree, but it gave me the action and adventure story that I want from a Star Wars novel. It was honestly almost like the Darkside version of the classic Luke Skywalker OT quest. Plagueis was just boring for me. I couldn't relate to any of the characters, there was an insane lack of action, and way to much politics.

Visual/cinematic Star Wars works best for straight-up action since no degree of literary genius can ever truly match what can be visually rendered. (Yeah, yeah, I know books are like totes better than movies /hipster rant shuddup.)

The advantage of a book over visual media is the greater ability to explore characterization.

The Bane trilogy's "strong point" (lol) is the very thing that tends to be weakest in a book whereas its "weak point" is the very thing that's supposed to make a good book good.

I find your criticism of Plagueis to be fairly valid. Plagueis, while better written than Bane, does not make for a compelling protagonist because he's still pretty damn evil. Action and adventure are elusive in that book with the exception of the back-to-back chapters about the Maladian attack on the Order of the Canted Circle and Palpatine's subsequent retribution (these two chapters, I've often said, are the high point of the book). And lastly, the book reads too much like a chronology rather than its own self-contained story and I'm not impressed with it upon subsequent rereads.

That said, Luceno is ten times the novelist Karpyshyn is and so his failures tend to outstrip Karpyshyn's "triumphs" though I really hate to consider Bane a triumph by any stretch of the imagination.

Originally posted by DarthAnt66
And Rendezvous centered around several padawans I couldn't care less about until the end.

Now this one I couldn't disagree with more. Yoda: Dark Rendezvous is the strongest entry in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. At least in terms of full length novels. Impeccable characterization all around, excellent dialogue, damn-near flawless prose, and a compelling story. It's a shame Sean Stewart didn't author anymore SW stories.

Originally posted by The_Tempest
Now this one I couldn't disagree with more. Yoda: Dark Rendezvous is the strongest entry in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. At least in terms of full length novels. Impeccable characterization all around, excellent dialogue, damn-near flawless prose, and a compelling story. It's a shame Sean Stewart didn't author anymore SW stories.