I am halfway through reading Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (horrible title, but it's written by Matthew Stover and I don't care), and so far my overall impression can be summed up thusly:
Lando Calrissian is fucking awesome, the end.
I like that in a book, you know?
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I really need to read Shatterpoint one of these days. But not Stover's New Jedi Order book, because I refuse to wade through the continuity I would need to understand it. I love him, but not that much.
Lando Calrissian is fucking awesome, the end.
I like that in a book, you know?
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I really need to read Shatterpoint one of these days. But not Stover's New Jedi Order book, because I refuse to wade through the continuity I would need to understand it. I love him, but not that much.
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Date: 2011-04-26 02:52 am (UTC)Let me guess: Vathara wrote it. :-) I love that story.
It's not that I am daunted by the scope of the continuity I'd need to wade through -- I am all about continuity and world-building trivia. It's just that the continuity doesn't interest me, or in some cases actively pisses me off (this is what happened during the "let's build a New Jedi order!" books, where Luke was faffing around gathering apprentices and there was some nonsense with a ship that could explode suns and I don't know what-all), and what's the sense in reading stuff that will just annoy and/or bore me? :-(
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Date: 2011-04-26 12:33 pm (UTC)Yeah, it's less that I'm daunted and more that I'm actively annoyed by reams of it. And also I'd rather prioritize say, new Bujold or new Vathara then annoying canon-filler on my to-read list.