Wow, just now noticed the thread had reset. :(

Anyway, I'm nearly done with Zahn's Thrawn Trilogy. About 3/4 the way through the last book. So far, it's been excellent. The only other SW books I've ever read were Darth Bane: Path of Destruction and that book dealing with Qui-Gon's apprentice, Xanatos or something.

So far, the Thrawn Trilogy has been my favorite. Thrawn himself has secured a place as one of my favorite SW villains, probably even more so than Palpatine himself.

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Does anyone else have some recommended reading after I finish the Thrawn Trilogy?

Does anyone have any thoughts on the Darth Plagueis book? Specifically the way the Force was portrayed?

Haven't read it yet. In your opinion, was it a good read?




Depends on what you already have read. I enjoyed the Dark Nest trilogy. The Jedi Academy trilogy was good as well. There are so many good ones that it depends on what you like to read. Republic Commando Series is great and it doesn't involve much Jedi/Sith intervention. Its based on the Republic troopers.

Yesterday I finished "SW: FOTJ: Apocalypse" by Troy Denning. If you haven't read it yet and don't want it to be spoiled for you, don't read the rest of this post. I'll hit the return key a few times so you can avoid accidentally peeking.








Okay, a couple of things.

Number 1: I really enjoyed it. I thought it was interesting that they connected it with season three of the new cartoon, which I know a lot of people don't care for, but it still was pretty neat to catch that. It's funny how Luke Skywalker always already knows something about everything. You don't catch too much of his training by Yoda in the ESB, but in the novels he constantly refers to stuff that was said off camera. "Oh yeah, Yoda told me that way back when. No biggy". It reminded me of that time where Jaina was describing Jacen's use of shatterpoint like it was some mysterious move, and Luke was all like, "Bah. That power is mad easy. I learned that ages ago".

Number 2: What's the deal with all this baradium? I get the impression the author just discovered it because in this novel and the last, the only explosive type you hear about is baradium. Maybe they missed the part in ROTJ where Leia whipped out a thermal det, since baradium has been around since then, but either way there seemed to be an obsession with it. Not really anything important, I just thought that was curious.

Number 3: Jag's no longer the Imperial Head of State. So how does the Fel Empire come about? They are definitely teasing us. Each time you think that it is going to happen, they pull it away. At least he and Jaina finally got married at the end. For a while there I didn't think it was going to happen.

Number 4: That strange Sith that helps Luke beat Abeloth in behind the shadows. Darth Krayt? The facial tattoos, missing eye, and withered arm seemed to suggest as much. It is kinda neat that he was able to use the mind walker ability to. The Lost Tribe of Sith seemed to be lacking in the power department, so it is nice to see a Sith who can actually do stuff. Plus I am dying to see this Order of One thing go down. We've caught glimpses in the Jaden Korr novels by Paul Kemp, but nothing quite so concrete as the man himself. He even showed up on Coruscant which was pretty sweet.

Number 5: A lot of epic battles. Tahira and Fett teaming up to beat Abeloth number 1, pretty awesome. Ben and Vestera fighting Abeloth in the Maw, also pretty sweet. Too bad things didn't work out for the love birds. I feel bad for Vestera mostly, she's a victim of circumstance. If she didn't toss that thermal det at the Falcon then it would have been her butt getting skewered by a lightsaber.


I think that is about all I have for right now. Still letting some of the facts settle in me lil'ol noggin'. Good way to end the series I thought.

Just finished "Riptide" by Paul Kemp... wTf?

Soooooo confused about Jaden

Just now recently got my "Book of Sith: Secrets of the Dark Side," in the mail. Ordered it at Barnes & Noble, and decided to get the deluxe edition, as I have doubts they'll make a trade edition like the "Jedi Path." Using both books to get ideas for the Jensaarai group I'm in and building up.

Book came with a Sith-holocron replica, that with a press of a button shaped as triangle, opens it and shows the book inside which can be removed. Also came with a replica of the Tailsman of Finding that Savage Opress was given by Mother Talizin, and a red lightsaber synth-crystal. Also came with five other removable items used as bookmarks inside the book. The removable items are a nice touch, but I did come for the book.

Still reading the book as of this time of this post being made. It's interesting how the book is actually six books assembled in one in the form of chapters. One written by Sorzus Syn, another written by Darth Malgus, another by Darth Bane, a Nightsister chapter by Mother Talzin, another written by Darth Plagueis, and the last one written by Palpatine who in-universe assembled the books and put them into one book.

Only criticism I have of the book is that during Darth Bane's part of the book, during his explanation of lightsaber combat, he mentions Juyo but also calls it Vaapad. I thought in "Darth Bane: Path of Destruction," the part in the book of it accidently refers to Juyo as Vaapad, as a mistake that was said to have been done by it's author, since it was Mace Windu who had invented the lightsaber form long after the events of Darth Bane. I'm wondering if Vaapad's mention was intentional in this book, as if perhaps hinting that it wasn't Mace Windu who invented it, but Kas'im and the Brotherhood of Darkness. Or at least, probably a form that was being invented at the time of that era and that it was incomplete. Then the Jedi must of found the info on Vaapad after defeating the Sith, and sometime afterword Mace Windu finding out about the form and further developed it, eventually mastering it. If that mention of Vaapad was intentional, I think that would be the only way to explain how Vaapad's development came about, unless if it was invented and still incomplete by the Sith long before the Brotherhood of Darkness.

Read or rather listened to my first starwars book the other day. Legacy of the force, the final book. At first I was confused because it started off with a dream or something then it all made sense. I liked the Fel in it seeing as I am part of his Empire.