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Batman wrote:Truth be told, while the bioship bit meant it was from Black Fleet Crisis, I did have to look up the book titles and the name of the ship.

I liked the black fleet crisis, the one that pissed me off was Children of the Jedi where Luke is traped on that AI ship which turns out to be Lukes future girlfriend, stupid stuff, stupid stuff

for me, any mistakes that come from Children of the Jedi or Planet of Twilight, im sorry i read those to books back to back and i mix them up, all other SW EU im awesome on

Noble Ire wrote:

Lord Pounder wrote:

Mr CorSec wrote: You mean until the next offering of post-NJO EU comes out and you just can't help yourself....

Honestly not even then, i actually canceled my pre-order for Outbound Flight after finishing Swarm War.

Honestly, I don't understand this. I mean, the same authors aren't involved, the eras are completely different, the existing base material is pretty solid (Thrawn Trilogy, etc.) Do you stop watching all of the shows on a TV channel after one of them disappoints you, too?

No but when an entire series does i'll generally find it hard to maintain interest. Don't get me wrong the EU has some awesome books. Star By Star and Destinys Way in particular are books i'm happy to read over and over, though for every gem there are several nuggets of pure shite. The time line from after I Jedi (which i liked TBH) was fucking criminally bad. Only the HoT trilogy saved it enough to keep my interest going. The recent Dark Nest was badly written in ways Kevin J Anderson can only have wet dreams about.

No but when an entire series does i'll generally find it hard to maintain interest. Don't get me wrong the EU has some awesome books. Star By Star and Destinys Way in particular are books i'm happy to read over and over, though for every gem there are several nuggets of pure shite. The time line from after I Jedi (which i liked TBH) was fucking criminally bad. Only the HoT trilogy saved it enough to keep my interest going. The recent Dark Nest was badly written in ways Kevin J Anderson can only have wet dreams about.

Have you read any of the CW era books? IMO, they are over all far better than the post-ROTJ series, and have far fewer stinkers (avoid Jedi Trial, if you do try them). However, if your just talking about the later series, than I can see your point. I almost stopped reading NJO after Dark Journey, but being a completist, I pushed on.

The recent Dark Nest was badly written in ways Kevin J Anderson can only have wet dreams about.

Thanks for the tip. I thought of buying it, but after seeing so many "great" reviews on DN, I think that I will not buy SW books anymore. It's been like 6 years that I have bought no SW books. That's how bad they have become.

I still read some of the books (Stover's ones) and comics (particulary later Empire issues about Imperials), but I never buy anything anymore.

Call me disillusioned.

Noble Ire wrote:Have you read any of the CW era books? IMO, they are over all far better than the post-ROTJ series, and have far fewer stinkers (avoid Jedi Trial, if you do try them). However, if your just talking about the later series, than I can see your point. I almost stopped reading NJO after Dark Journey, but being a completist, I pushed on.

Yeah i bought most of them. I considered them OK but the didn't exactly blow my skirt up. Shatterpoint was meh, Cestus deception bored me somewhat. Jedi Trial was quite terriable but Dark Rendezvous, Labyrinth Of Evil and Dark Lord where enjoyable. Never got the change to read the Med Star books yet.

I was always iffy about reading the CW era books, it seemed like they would have the highest liklehood for Jedi-wanking. I'm also letting EU die with NJO, I think that unless I hear something truly spectacular about them (Rogue Squadron level) that NJO had a sufficiently climatic enough ending and I don't want to keep on adding sequels on to it.

I'm definately not buying any postNJO EU. Though I may be tempted into buying Dark Lord. And those Death Star books being written by the medStar guys.

Lord Pounder wrote:Honestly not even then, i actually canceled my pre-order for Outbound Flight after finishing Swarm War.

Swarm War was fucking awful; waste of money. Dark Lord was ok, but it actually had LESS of Vader and more of whiny Jedi than I liked. I quit the NJO about 3 books before the end.

Lord Pounder wrote:Honestly not even then, i actually canceled my pre-order for Outbound Flight after finishing Swarm War.

You should give Outbound Flight a try. If you say you liked the Hand of Thrawn duology then you'll probably like that one too. And I agree. Swarm War is a steaming pile of shit.