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 |  Subject: Ten Essential EU books.  Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:54 am | |
| Del Rey is releasing an EU book package to get people started on the EU. There is a 10 book package and a 4 book package...tell me what you think!
Ten book package:
The Old Republic: Deceived
Republic Commando: Hard Contact
Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
Death Troopers (????)
Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
Heir to the Empire
New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
Legacy of the Force: Betrayal
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Four book package:
X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
Heir to the Empire
New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
Legacy of the Force: Betrayal
What do you think? I'm a little perplexed by Death Trooper's inclusion, to say th e least. Vector Prime, while the first book of the NJO series, is a bad book and would probably turn people off the series all together. I like the inclusion of Mindor and Hard Contact.
This is obviously just a ploy to get people sampling as much of the EU as possible in hopes that one of the books "clicks" with readers. Because reading a bunch of random unrelated books would be really confusing otherwise. This takes a nice long snapshot of the chronology of the EU. Although I wish I saw Specter of the Past and Outcast in there too. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Ten Essential EU books. Fri Aug 31, 2012 10:13 am | |
| Death Troopers?! Oh my. 0_0
If it is what you say it is, a ploy to get people sampling the EU, it is a bad idea. Some of those books could be a big turn-off. I'll take your word on Vector Prime; I personally am not a big fan of Michael A. Stackpole (he writes too *ahem* adult for me); Death Troopers...well, look at title and cover of the book, and enough is said. And then Hard Contact is a decidedly anti-Jedi book, which is a turn-off for anyone like, well, me: a Prequel Jedi fan. There are potential problems for 40% of the books, and I haven't read all of them, so there may be even MORE potential turn-offs that I am unaware of. | |
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| | Subject: Re: Ten Essential EU books. Fri Aug 31, 2012 6:50 pm | |
| Really, the best starting point to the EU is The Thrawn Trilogy and Hand of Thrawn duology since most of the EU (at least post ROTJ stuff) has been built around those five books. A package of random books wouldn't seem ideal to me. |
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| | Subject: Re: Ten Essential EU books. Fri Aug 31, 2012 8:49 pm | |
| Bleh no way on Death Troopers. XD
I AM SO HAPPY ROGUE SQUADRON IS INCLUDED IT IS PERFECT. XD | |
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| | Subject: Re: Ten Essential EU books. Sat Sep 01, 2012 8:55 am | |
| I definitely wouldn't have include LOTF: Betrayal, but I'm glad they included books from the Old Republic!! | |
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| | Subject: Re: Ten Essential EU books. Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:19 am | |
| Okay, I may be a bit biased, but my essential EU books(including series) would be Thrawn Trilogy Jedi Apprentice series Secrets of the Jedi Jedi Quest series Revenge of the Sith novel Young Jedi Knights series Junior Jedi Knights series Wild Space Shatterpoint Darth Plagueis (oh, and I LOVE Crosscurrent!!)  | |
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