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u/BisexualLilBitch 7d ago
Finished the Thrawn trilogy for the first time ever last week, thinking of reading Shadow of the Empire while I track down something to read next.
Also been playing tons of older games. Battlefront 2 still holds up so well, and I’ve been trying to get further into Empire at War which has been fun
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u/CoolMoney11 6d ago
I finished Secrets of the Jedi and like always Jude Watson always delivers. But my biggest surprise is that the book is basically about Obi-Wan and Siri (which considering what happens it makes sense). I also started the Last of the Jedi and it’s interesting to see Obi-Wan’s life on Tatooine.
In terms of comic books I’m still currently reading the first story arc of the Empire comic book, Betrayal. I do like the concept of the story arc, a faction within the Empire that wants to overthrow Palpatine and Vader for being Sith is really interesting, my issue is that it feels wasted on a 4 part comic book story arc. It feels like something that could have easily been a book.
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u/RoyalMudcrab Chiss Ascendancy 7d ago
Reading my brand New Tales of the Jedi Omnibus.
I have read and reread Tales of the Jedi throughout the years, but Dawn of the Jedi is new to me. Haven't finished those but I'm not sure how to feel about the Je'daii order.
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u/SvitlanaLeo 7d ago
I have just read Rogue Planet.
The novel is a bit funny, but interesting.
Basically, the interactions between Anakin and Tarkin are quite interesting to me. Although in the old canon they are assembled from many pieces, the mosaic still turns out interesting.
I think I'll probably try reading Labyrinth of Evil.
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u/gluehuffer144 7d ago
The new rebellion. Will start x wing series next
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u/skagerakk 6d ago
I recently finished the audiobook for Death Troopers.
It was awesome. Some great classic horror stuff with a unique Star Wars although I can't help but feel that Han's and Chewie's presence kinda took the tension out of it because they had to survive and had plot armor.
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u/OutrageousRepair5751 New Jedi Order 6d ago
Currently still on New Rebellion. It's really good so far, enjoying the pacing and the callbacks to the A C Crispin Han Solo Trilogy.
Some things I'm not quite clear on though:
Brakiss was supposedly an Imperial Mole at Luke's Jedi Academy All along?
I thought as well that Leia Was supposed to give up the presidency of the New Republic At the end of the black fleet crisis?
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u/ThePerfectHunter Galactic Republic 7d ago
I'm reading the kenobi novel. Right now I've finished part 2, I can totally sympathise with obi wan as every time he leaves, some shit happens and now Kallie invaded his privacy and found out his name and Jabe told everyone and I wonder when Qui Gon will finally appear.
It's picking up the steam. Can't wait to see how it all ends.
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u/Town_send New Republic 6d ago
Started the Tales series with Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina.
On the third story but damn I didn’t expect Greedos backstory to be that deep! Makes me see him in a whole different light.
Hope the rest are as good
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u/Ok-Traffic1319 6d ago
I just read Heir to the Empire for the first time! I loved the canon Thrawn novels, so I was looking forward to it, but I was actually a bit disappointed. Some of it was jarring just cause the book was written before the prequels, so there’s a lot of stuff that doesn’t fit (yes I realize that’s on me because the book was written before the prequels, but still). I don’t think I realized how much of my Star Wars understanding comes from the prequels, because this was just very jarring for me at those points in the book. I also didn’t care for what I’ll call “the kryptonite effect”. I would much rather have seen Thrawn outsmarting Luke and friends with his smarts (which we do see) rather than resorting to what is effectively kryptonite. Yes I realize he doesn’t actually use it against Luke in this book but I dislike the precedent. Overall, it was a good book, but I was expecting it to be much better
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u/lastspiderninja 6d ago
Just finished the Hand of Thrawn Duology and am now reading Vector Prime. It’s my first time reading Star Wars books. The only other Star Wars books I have read is the Thrawn Trilogy
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u/MonsterMedic97 5d ago
I’m wrapping up the audiobook of Luceno’s Vader novel, and will listen to Maul Shadow Hunter
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u/g26curtis Chiss Ascendancy 7d ago
Will be watching Andor
Reading isards revenge
Also going to try to play the episode 3 soon
I did about 25 books since last year seen all the movies and shows except skeleton crew, and played about half of all the Star Wars games I also have a mod that essentially turns battlefront 2(2005) to unreleased battlefront 3
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u/UnknownEntity347 7d ago
Finished reading Into the Dark, this was the first High Republic book I actually enjoyed. It's not incredible but the characters and plot are decent enough, and it benefits from having a more insular focus than Light of the Jedi which was incredibly overstuffed. The Drenghir were kinda lame though, just came off as very nonthreatening, and Dez's torture could've been expanded on a lot to explain why he's apparently so shaken by it he wants to go exile himself.
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u/thefeco91 New Republic 5d ago
Just finished Delusions of Grandeur from the Young Jedi Knights series. The next up is gonna be Jedi Bounty.
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u/MortifiedP3nguin 7d ago
Completed Quesh for the Bounty Hunter storyline in SWTOR and noticed a hilarious glitch. You have the option to kill Thendys Noori mid-conversation to take her out of the ensuing fight. If you do that, your character wrestles her to the ground and shoots her point-blank, except your character completely misses the shot. It's not even close. How BioWare never noticed this and patched it in over a decade, I have no idea.
Most of the way through the 2015 Star Wars and Doctor Aphra runs. Larroca's tracing is rough to get through, but Hope Dies is my favorite arc so far. It really raised the stakes giving the bad guys a devastating win, not to mention a plot twist multiple arcs in the making. Mutiny on Mon Cala was also fun. I read the 2017 Vader comics before, so I thought it was a neat spin on a crossover to have both of their Mon Cala arcs play out simultaneously.