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The thing I can’t stand about Timothy Zahn is he always talks about people’s lips twitching. If you read through any of the above mentioned books, or any of his other sci-fi books, about once or twice per page he says that someone’s lip twitched in reaction to something. He completely overuses the terminology.
I just read them because they were SW books, in my estimation, he was a weak writer anyway (for a published novelist).
I have a few Star Wars books by other authors laying around I haven’t read yet. I’m expecting more from them. The best Star Wars books I’ve ever read were the Corellian Trilogy by Roger Macbride Allen, and the second best books were the first four X-Wing books written by Michael A. Stackpole.
The X-Wing books were indeed awesome, I dug the Allston ones too.
I am a big fan of Zahn’s books. I think he does a great job with the existing classic characters, plus I love the ones he introduced (Thrawn, Pellaeon, Mara Jade, Talon Karrde, etc.).
@digitaltopia 41208 wrote:
The thing I can’t stand about Timothy Zahn is he always talks about people’s lips twitching. If you read through any of the above mentioned books, or any of his other sci-fi books, about once or twice per page he says that someone’s lip twitched in reaction to something. He completely overuses the terminology.
Oh my God dude you are so dead on right!! It ruins his books for me. I swear I literally threw down one of them and never picked it up again because I got so fucking angry when Luke “pursed his lips” for the millionth fucking time in 20 pages.
I should’ve known you come thru Digi…
So what would you guys have as your saber color and why?
For my whole life I thought blue, but I think green is the color that chose me. I’m just not evil enough for red, that and it clashes with my shoes.@Bing 41220 wrote:
Oh my God dude you are so dead on right!! It ruins his books for me. I swear I literally threw down one of them and never picked it up again because I got so fucking angry when Luke “pursed his lips” for the millionth fucking time in 20 pages.
I should’ve known you come thru Digi…
So what would you guys have as your saber color and why?
For my whole life I thought blue, but I think green is the color that chose me. I’m just not evil enough for red, that and it clashes with my shoes.i like the color blue more than green for most things, but when it comes to light sabers i’d have to go with green. i always thought the green ones always ‘popped’ more in the movies.
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@Version3 41203 wrote:
Yeah, that’s the one! It was continued through many of the books, including the ones that introduced me to the concept (I went back to read Splinter later) Timothy Zahn books, Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising and The Last Command. Always thought it was funny how in those books Luke was still a little bitch and the chicks always had to save his ass (didn’t this happen when Luke actually crossed the dark side too, with Leia doing the saving bit?).
When I was really little, and thought that SW was the coolest shit ever (wait, when I was little?) I remember after Empire, my mom was reading Splinter of the Mind’s Eye. As I recall, she said it was pretty slow.
refresh my memory a little. (you’re so right about luke btw). didn’t most of the original concept of luke crossing over to the dark side after the battle of endor come from (please forgive me for putting it this way but i can’t think of any other way to say it) lucas’ original idea for the star wars script? didn’t he plan on kind of going from the birth of anakin to the death of luke? but pretty much started in the middle? i always heard there were 9 parts but he kind of meshed ideas from 4 – 9 together for the original trilogy. which is why the prequels are so screwed up. because he’s been having to work backwards to try and make everything fit.
most of what i just posted may be bs. i really can’t remember. i’ve been into this stuff so long its hard to tell sometimes what is real and what is revisionist history when lucas is involved.
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Green is a nice choice. Purple seems too fruity. I think I’d go with a nice dark blue.
I’m not familiar with Luke’s journey to the dark side. As I understand it, and this may not be correct, him going to the dark side was just in one particular series of comic books, and it was just a ploy to infiltrate the opposing camp. Or maybe I’m doing the Lucas and just making it all up.
Blue for me definitely.
And you’re correct digi, Luke’s dark side journey was in the Dark Empire comic series. His plan was to get close to the “Reborn Emperor” (one of Palp’s clones) and destroy him from the inside. The audio dramas for that series were really good IMO…
But I thought that was his plan, and he ended up ‘being’ on the dark side… and it was Leia or whatever that killed the emperor clone and brought him back. Am I remembering that wrong?
All I know is that all of the books I wanted to like still sucked. They are just all written like fanboy crap, where they either overuse a few things from the original trilogy, or they totally fuck up the SW universe. I hated how the Zahn books also had to use the “yes your highnessness” bit that Han says (ONCE) and explain that he always said that to her, every fucking time it came up. I hated the expansion of the Grand Moff rank, and how there were all of these other fuckers off secretly doing shit with their thumbs up their collective asses while the Empire actually fell, I hate that the clone wars stuff was described in just enough detail to support some of the stupid ideas, but vague enough to not be interesting, and I hated that Luke was such a little bitch (still). I also hate that a guy who got his training in like the Jedi universe equivalent of a drive-through vocational school is the most skilled and powerful Jedi in the galaxy, and is rebuilding the Jedi order, yet has no HELP from the all-seeing/knowing ghosts from the days when the order was strong. What can they not afford projector bulbs in the new Jedi temple? Almost all of that was from the Timothy Zahn books, wasn’t it?
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