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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2017 22:57:10 GMT
I've seen that several times in the local Waterstones, and I am considering picking it up after payday this month actually. I could do with some good new Star Wars stuff, and by then I might just have finished hacking my way through Peter F Hamilton's "Great North Road". (That's hacking as in "with a machete through the Bush" as opposed to "with an Ono-Sendai Cyberspace deck".) Karl I actually thought the story was better told in the novel though I think the tone used for the movie was right at this time. I don't think the tone of the novel would have been appropriate for a SW film this early into Disney's tenure. It would work down the line but not right now. It's hard to explain. I thought the movie was great, though I felt more emotionally moved by the novel. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2017 22:59:01 GMT
Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry is pretty good. Andy I only experienced the comics version of Shadows, which I thought was poor. -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2017 23:06:23 GMT
I seem to recall the comic only telling odd bits of the story.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 3, 2017 23:07:12 GMT
It read like disjointed poo.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 3, 2017 23:24:48 GMT
Yeah it missed vast swathes of the story.
Not John Wagner's best.
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Post by Benn on Mar 3, 2017 23:53:19 GMT
If I remember rightly, the novel missed out all Boba Fetts story, and that's what the comic focused on.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 4, 2017 0:10:51 GMT
If I remember rightly, the novel missed out all Boba Fetts story, and that's what the comic focused on. Yeah, but it still tries to keep in with the Luke/Leia/Xizor plot - making it a mess. Andy |
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Post by Benn on Mar 4, 2017 0:47:57 GMT
I thought at the time it was a bit of a dick move telling the story across three platforms. Like, I didn't own a Nintendo, so how am I supposed to get that part of the plot?
It was ambitious, but... yeah. There was a soundtrack as well, wasn't there?
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2017 10:02:54 GMT
There was.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 6, 2017 22:27:54 GMT
Everything bar a film!
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 15, 2017 21:58:23 GMT
Thrawn was purchased and read.
A cracking book, doesn't contradict anything from the Heir to the Empire series which is good.
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 15, 2017 22:03:32 GMT
I may have a go at that one. I liked Tarkin.
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Post by Benn on Apr 16, 2017 8:43:56 GMT
Last Star Wars book I read was 'Death Star' which I thought was pretty good, but I've felt no need to read it again. I assume that's out of continuity now?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 16, 2017 8:48:28 GMT
Last Star Wars book I read was 'Death Star' which I thought was pretty good, but I've felt no need to read it again. I assume that's out of continuity now? Yes it is now under the Legends banner. |
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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 10, 2017 0:16:07 GMT
I finally got around to reading Kathy Tyer's the Truce at Bakura from 1994, after just 15 years of it sitting on my shelf. It's notable for being set immediately after Return of the Jedi and deals with some of the implications for the characters, and must have sold by the bucketload when it was published during the first Star Wars resurgence of the early-to-mid 90s. It's well written with a good understanding of the characters, though the story is a little cliche in places and drags towards the end. The cover jacket artwork is particularly excellent, with accurate representations of the actors and a suitably mystical/spacey colour scheme (much better in real life than it appears on web scans). I originally planned to read it before taking it to a charity shop, but I'm tempted to keep it for a bit longer as a reminder of the time period when it was published. |
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Post by Stomski on Sept 10, 2018 10:38:15 GMT
Not read any Star Wars novels up until earlier this year, so started with Heir To The Empire.
It was... OK. General plot good, but too much use of mcguffins.
Strangely Dark Force Rising not available for Kobo and I thought I was buying the trilogy when I bought book 1.
So then thought I'd try some new canon stuff. Reading Aftermath at the moment. The prose is just that, so dry and matter of fact that it's almost uncomfortable to read, slowing my pace somewhat.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 10, 2018 12:40:29 GMT
I tried Aftermath but gave up after a hundred or so pages. I could not get on with the prose style at all.
I thought the Rogue One novelisation was excellent. Very very grim though.
-Ralph
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Post by manmiles on Sept 11, 2018 14:57:12 GMT
I honestly think Aftermath picks up in the second and third books, but the prose is it's own beast. The first book is really the weakest, but I enjoyed the trilogy.
Bloodline by Claudia Grey is probably one of the best in the 'New Timeline' EU novels. Phasma by Deliah Dawson is a good 'Star Wars does Mad Max' although I really wish we saw more of THAT PHasma in the books.
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Post by Jim on Sept 12, 2018 22:16:30 GMT
The only Star Wars book I’ve read so far this year is From a Certain Point of View, the collection of short stories set around the events of the original film. YMMV but for me the hit rate was high, and they are mostly well written. Very different to the expanded universe stuff though.
The main one that sticks in my head is “An Incident Report” which is the official complaint made by the chap that Vader force choked in the conference room, presumably to the empire’s HR department. There’s one brilliant line in it that I wouldn’t want to spoil...
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 19, 2020 21:24:22 GMT
I'm really enjoying reading Star Wars. Not only because Foster's prose style is gloriously overblown in places ("The odor of crisped insulation and corroded circuitry filled the clear desert air with a pungency redolent of mechanized death..."), but because it's nice to think this is the very beginning. Before the film came out, before the sequels - at the back end of 1976 this is all Star Wars was, everything known in the Star Wars universe is in this book. Including the cut scenes in the right places.
I also love the way the one page prologue is basically the plot of episodes 1&2. I think I knew that, but it's weird seeing that right at the very start. And small surprises, like Vader having glowing red eyes behind his mask.
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Post by Benn on Aug 19, 2020 22:29:30 GMT
I remember rereading that after the prequels hit and being genuinely surprised that in broad brushstrokes, yes, Lucas had planned it all out. Pretty impressive, really!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 23, 2020 1:15:21 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2020 10:07:07 GMT
Seems to be a spam link!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 23, 2020 10:56:06 GMT
Amended the link - try now.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2020 11:50:50 GMT
Ah yes. I see it now. This has been rumbling for a while.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 24, 2020 17:41:47 GMT
Hopefully they will be held to account and do the right thing.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 4, 2021 13:58:07 GMT
On a bit of a SW kick at the moment so reading DARTH PLAGEIS. Prose is a tad overblown and lots of pish about midi-chlorians but it's not too bad. Plagueis himself is a good character.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 4, 2021 17:43:50 GMT
"Have I told you the tale of Darth Plagueis the wise?"
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 4, 2021 19:29:44 GMT
"They say he could even stop...death."
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Apr 4, 2021 20:11:16 GMT
Probably time I read the next Han Solo novel.
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