Are these books actually well written or are they just slop praised by Star Wars fans?
>>24740843Star Wars is dumb. Grow up or don't worry about "well written" slop.
There is a point where these books and the Dune series intersect in terms of quality. It’s just a matter of debate as to where that begins
Do you like Star Wars? If yes then read it.
>>24740843Those ones are
>>24740843It's fairly written but there's not much plot. The concepts introduced serve little to no purpose and it just isn't exciting like the films. There's no meat on the bones.First trilogy is good family fair modern myth. Andor is thoughtful adult content. I read no book that elevates the franchise as good as Andor, much less the flawed Rogue One.Do you like Star Wars? If yes, then don't bother reading this one. Read a synopsis at most. You'll as as much out of it.
>>24740843I read these when I was in middle school and recall them very fondly but have no idea if they hold up. All I know is out of nostalgia I tried to get into the authors new Thrawn books and I just couldn’t do it.I will say this for it though. Books written within preexisting universes have the advantage of all the base lore already being known by the audience, so the author can dive into more esoteric stuff like flash cloned legions, dark Jedi, smuggler guilds, hot chocolate, alien assassin tribes, lost and forgotten fleets, etc.
>>24740843The only Star Wars book that deserves to be called "literature" is the Revenge of the Sith novelization, but that's lightning in a bottle. Everything else ranges from terrible to barely readable.
>>24741175>I will say this for it though. Books written within preexisting universes have the advantage of all the base lore already being known by the audienceThough, SW EU also expects even normies who simply watch the movies to instantly know the names of all the alien species. It is handy to learn that Greedo's species are called Rodians, for instance.
>>24740843I read them in elementary school and recall thinking even at that time that some of the plot beats were quite silly. However, as I read more Star Wars books, I realized that the reason people hail that trilogy as one of the greatest pieces of the Expanded Universe is because it really is. Namely, Zahn makes his villains competent and interesting and, perhaps most importantly for the kind of lore freaks like me who read that stuff, he is almost the sole author who realized that a place the size of a galaxy has more planets, more crime bosses, more politicians, more bureaucrats, and more military commanders than just the ones who appeared in the movies. All of which serves to create the impression of an actually inhabited universe instead of a movie set for the protagonists to adventure in. The side effect of this is that Zahn's trilogy is worth reading if you're a huge Star Wars aficionado since he introduces a bunch of characters who go on to be important for the rest of the EU since the other writers didn't realize they should probably introduce characters of their own to fill in secondary roles.
I read the novelization of the Empire Strikes Back and the only thing I remember is the author decided to make Yoda blue for some reason.
>>24741874>SW EU also expects even normies who simply watch the movies to instantly know the names of all the alien specieswell, yeah, the EU is pure 'fandom', if you excuse this vile redditor term
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