YV series boredom and utter stupidity - end of it?

Spare · Post by **Spare** » 2003-08-10 05:55pm

I bought three SW books lately 'Star by Star' and the two books from the 'Enemy Lines' series. I took the 'SbS' with me when I was going on vacation and I read it all during the 5-6 hours spent on the train. It was boring, stupid and...well, it was just like every SW book since R.A. Salvatore committed the 'Vector Prime' beginning the whole series.

Then I started reading 'Rebel Dream' and...I liked it. It really went back to the whole idea of Starwars - a bunch of adventurers on a mission. And finally they gave the YV a good whipping - but Im starting to believe they could have done that a tiny 'bit' earlier.
Anyways, after finishing the two books from the 'EL' volume I thought that Aaron Allston did manage to get something out of nothing.

Is it that my brain melted from 'SbS' or is there something in the 'EL' that brings back the old SW book memories?

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-08-10 08:31pm

Enemy Lines is good.

But I think Star By Star is better. It's gritty, there's a lot of action, and impending sense of doom, that wall of enemy bodies coming at you never stopping feeling, and Anakin died. Just imagine all the blood and gore as you read it.

Anyway, in Rebel Dream, it took like 15 minutes for a SSD to BDZ an area a couple hundred km in diameter.

Connor MacLeod · Post by **Connor MacLeod** » 2003-08-10 08:57pm

SBS is one of the best SW novels I've read, and Tattooine's Ghost was quite good too. So yeah, your brain is melted.

(I edited the post to be more "polite", since I am getting more than a bit annoyed with most of the pointless EU bitching.)

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-08-11 04:01am

Other than the fall of Coruscant most people, even haters, will tell you that Star by Star is one of the best NJO and even EU novels. Rebel Dream and Rebel Stand almost had me, but Wraith Squadron seemed a little neutered from their former selves and that was the onlything that made me excited about the book, that and the SSD Lusankya getting some hot Turbolaser on planet action.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-08-11 04:19am

Now don't all hate me at once, but when I read SbS I wasn't exactly moved by it, and I would like to hear some reasons why I should have been. It wasn't bad or anything, but I wouldn't rate it in my top 8 EU books of all time, let alone THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! Which is what I seem to be hearing.

I mean I know better than anyone that these things are largely subjective, but I am just curious as to what other people got from it that I seem to have missed. Mind you, I can barely remember it, so I could have liked it more than I am giving it credit for.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-08-11 04:41am

YT300000 wrote:Anyway, in Rebel Dream, it took like 15 minutes for a SSD to BDZ an area a couple hundred km in diameter.

It was not a BDZ, think about this! There is a friendly base in the center of their bombardment and all the SSD have todo is to wipe out the ground forces, it's not like you'd want to use a high charge when firing.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-08-11 06:08am

Crown wrote:Now don't all hate me at once, but when I read SbS I wasn't exactly moved by it, and I would like to hear some reasons why I should have been. It wasn't bad or anything, but I wouldn't rate it in my top 8 EU books of all time, let alone THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! Which is what I seem to be hearing.

I mean I know better than anyone that these things are largely subjective, but I am just curious as to what other people got from it that I seem to have missed. Mind you, I can barely remember it, so I could have liked it more than I am giving it credit for.

You just have a different opinion, that's all. But to be honest I didn;t know there were 8 EU books that qualified as readable, let alone good. heh,

Rightous Fist Of Heaven · Post by **Rightous Fist Of Heaven** » 2003-08-11 10:15am

SbS was an excellent book. So far the most enjoyable book of the entire NJO that i have read. Traitor was very good too but IMHO SbS beats it. But ofcourse it comes down to personal opinions.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2003-08-11 11:14am

SbS was arguably the greatest SW book ever, and only Tim Zahn's work even challenges it. It is dark, fun, as realistic a SW book as you're ever going to get, and fun.

Spare · Post by **Spare** » 2003-08-11 02:32pm

SbS...the impending sense of doom. It isnt really what I like SW for. A matter of personal taste.

Connor, that was a rhetorical question, in case you haven't noticed. It is a question that is not meant to be answered. A problem of understanding different opinions I presume? You should have edited the post a bit more.

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2003-08-11 04:25pm

His Divine Shadow wrote:
YT300000 wrote:Anyway, in Rebel Dream, it took like 15 minutes for a SSD to BDZ an area a couple hundred km in diameter.
It was not a BDZ, think about this! There is a friendly base in the center of their bombardment and all the SSD have todo is to wipe out the ground forces, it's not like you'd want to use a high charge when firing.

Still, it should have taken a minute at most.