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[Charles Phipps]

Pretty much what the topic says.

I'm a huge one.

God, I must have read 4-5 books every year since I was fourteen.

It's huge, really.

Most of it is bleah but every once and a while, there's a real gem.

[Lord Anubis]

I miss Jaxxon the Space Rabbit.  And Han's droids, Boxx and Blue Max.  And whatshisname... the original bounty hunter, the cyborg in the dark blue body armor.  And Lando's starfish-robot navigator.

...wait, which expanded universe are we referring to?

 

 

[Charles Phipps]

I miss Jaxxon the Space Rabbit.  And Han's droids, Boxx and Blue Max.  And whatshisname... the original bounty hunter, the cyborg in the dark blue body armor.  And Lando's starfish-robot navigator.

...wait, which expanded universe are we referring to?

 

 

What's tragic is I've read every single one of those books.

Oh and it's Valance.

(I have the Marvel Star Wars series in TPB)

[Thom Brannan]

i have those first six books, the Lando and Han adventures.

i was meh about the EU until the New Jedi Order, i think. Vector Prime was when i realized that the people behind this storyline meant business.

[Lord Anubis]

Oh and it's Valance.

You rock.   

Honestly, I liked a lot of the older Marvel stuff, and the Han and Lando paperbacks.  I really liked Brian Daley's Heir to the Empire trilogy (thought the idea of some races referring to Luke and Leia as "Lord and Lady Vader" was brilliant).

I just got frustrated when LucasArts started treating them like the movies--trying to completely rewrite stuff and denying the original material ever existed.  The Han and Lando books are gone, as is Splinter of the Mind's Eye.  Genndy Tartakovsky's Clone Wars was considered great stuff but were then wiped away when the new series came about (which, granted, is pretty damned good, too). 

I don't mind the new takes and new ideas, it just drives me nuts that I can't get any of the old material because of them. 

[Thom Brannan]

I don't mind the new takes and new ideas, it just drives me nuts that I can't get any of the old material because of them. 

what does this mean? do you need copies of those books?

[Lord Anubis]

I would love to dig up copies sometime (I wish I'd never sold my ratty old paperbacks), but it's really just more frustration at Lucas for constantly revising material-- especially all this older stuff that created so many of the fans he's made billions off.  I said "I," but I really mean anyone.

There was a point that all the Marvel comics were canon.  Every issue had to get the stamp of approval from LucasArts that said they approved (or sometimes didn't) the events and characters and situations within.  Now they're just more proof George didn't know what he was doing (like Splinter...), so they must be disavowed... 

[Thom Brannan]

i have the six Han and Lando books. (three each, you know what i mean.) Heir to the Empire, is that the one that starts with The Glove of Vader or something like it? i have an omnibus of those three books.

what are they worth to you?

[Charles Phipps]

As I understand it, the Marvel and Han books as well as the Lando ones are all still canon.

They were even recently referenced (comparatively) in the NJO.

[Thom Brannan]

just finished Death Troopers. i'm unsure how i feel about it. i have Red Harvest by the same guy in the read queue, and half of me is hoping it's an adaptation of the Dashiell Hammett novel, which might be brilliant. the other half is less optimistic.

[C Dulaney]

Yeah, I wasn't too sure about that one, either. And really, there's no other way to put it. Just "unsure." Folks who've read it will understand, folks who have not, well... just trust us on this one.

[heavens2kadonka]

Let's see, I've read the Thrawn trilogy, the Jedi Academy trilogy, "I, Jedi" (best description of the lightsaber building process, IMO), Legacy of the Force, and almost caught up on the Fate of the Jedi series.  Only read the first NJO book.

"Children of the Jedi" is one of two books I refuse to finish.  I steer clear of Barbara Hambly books.

I'm curious to see which writer will finally step-up and kill off Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, and Boba Fett.   

Van

[Rob Pegler]

I'm curious to see which writer will finally step-up and kill off Luke, Leia, Han, Lando, and Boba Fett.

*raises hand*

I'll do it!

[Thom Brannan]

you'll do it, but it'll take years. zing!

[Rob Pegler]

Just for that, I'm offing Chewie too.