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this is a little off key, but you guys would know. can someone recomend a good place to start start reading some SW novels? i read heir to the empire when i was nine, but never kept up with it. i'll have free time this summer, and was hoping for some good suggestions. thanx

There are some though that you should not read. "The Crystal Star" is not only the worst Star Wars novel I had ever read, it is one of the worst overall novels I have ever read.

My advice: SKIP IT!!

Oh, there's some pretty bad stuff out there... but I agree with Edna, Truce at Bakura is a good start.

That's 'chronology', by the way, my dear...

Geez gimme a break! Im allowed to make a typo once in a while! I missed the h! So sue me!

I went to a grammar school where I was taught to despise bad grammar. So sue ME!

Well the first one I read was the Truce at Bakura which starts the morning after the battle of Endor. Quite a convenient place really! I suppose cronological order is the best way to read them really but it doesnt really matter! Just make sure you finish trilogies and duologies or that can get very confusing! And you have to read the NJO books in order. That is a definite must! But I would advise starting at the truce at Bakura and going cronologically as much as poss. Then things like the Han Solo series and Shadows of the empire which come before and during the films can really be read at any time!

Hope that helps!

I would read three series of books. First you have to read the Thrawn trilogy, a lot of important characters are introduced, ie Mara Jade, and the Solo twins. Then read the Jedi Academy trilogy for the same reason. And finally start reading the New Jedi Order series, they are the best yet.....


spoiler space....


.......Coruscant is going to fall in the new hardback due out in October, Star by Star.

He doesnt mean the thrawn trilogy. He means the Empire trilogy which you started when you read Heir to the Empire. The Thrawn Duology is an extension of that set ten years later.

ive just read tales of the bounty hunters which is ok

set during esb

word. thanx giez, ill b lukin in2 that suen

sorry about the sarcasm, but i couldn't resist.

Your clumsy sarcasm cannot defeat me! I am superior to you ALL!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

OK, seem to have got carried away there... in fact I corrected Edna not as part of some snobbish crusade, but because we have a joke going in that department...

Hey, there is a big difference between "British" English and real "American" English! (I'm not trying to pick a fight, just to be a tad annoying)

Yes, but that has nothing to do with me correcting Edna and her Staffordshire ways...

I was just sticking up for Jeffrey from Colorado. Nice state, it is.

For crying out loud, it was a typo! I know my typin is bad and i know I cant spell just stop going on about it! Im not a computer wizzkid or an English schollar!. My talents lie elsewhere! So there!

Yes and dont you dare point out my many spelling mistakes in this either!

Well, that's THAT bit of fun out the window...

That witch is just no fun, isn't she?

She has her moments...

I'd probably try some books, but there's always that fact that GL didn't write them that spoils the idea for me. Plus, ideas like lizard aliens invading the DAY AFTER the Battle of Endor, who take people's SPIRITS and use them to power their GUNS, sicken me quite frankly. Sorry to any fans of the book, but I prefer to think of weapons being powered by blaster gas and energy cells, not ghosts. I said I'd never come to this board for fear of ranting, so I'll leave now. Sorry.

Too late, they have you marked...

my roommate's paternal origins involve kentucky.

sweet, right now I am living in Lexington, going to UK. Anyways, you should really read the Corellian Trilogy too, they are excellent.

Your coming to the UK JO?

No, sorry I meant I am a college student at the University of Kentucky, which to Americans is known as UK.

Just to confuse people.

hi

Ok here are my reccomendations. I encourage you to read them all in order. Most of the books are good and some are not so good but all are important parts of the Star Wars Story line. Some people do not like the EU because they say it was not written by Lucas or is not part of his vision of Star Wars. So what if they are not. Star Wars belongs to the people and not Lucas. He gave it up to us when he let the first EU book be written. About the only EU books I do not care for is the New Jedi Order series. The Vong just seemed a little off to me. I understand now why they could not be detected through the force but even that makes little sense. To take away it's presense in the force would be to take away it's life. Without the force there is no life and without life there is no Force. To me that is just seems more like an insult to everything Star Wars is. That is as bad as Greedo Shooting First, the celebration everywhere at the end of the Return of the Jedi Special Edition, replacing the orginal actor playing Anakin's Ghost with Haden Christionson at the end of the Return of the Jedi Special Edition, and the idea that Jar Jar is smart. If I made any mispelling, I am sorry. I do not feel like fixing them. expecialy if it is the last name to an Actor I do not realy care for. Yes he is a good actor but he is not in the same league as actors such as Harrison Ford. Look at me rambling on like this sorry. Well read all the books if you can. Also my first 3 books were Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command. Those 3 right there are also in my opinion the best books in the series. Heck they as good as the orginal trilogy and they blow the prequals out of the water.

don't read from pre saga books then skip to post sage because it confuses you, i guess start at truce at barkura, or around there and read all the way through.

I enjoy the post books more then the pre books anyways. lol

Or better yet, don't revive old thread.