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DarthBigTime Registered: Feb '07	Date Posted: 3/21/07 3:58pm Subject: Worst Star Wars novels - Date Edited: 3/22/07 7:59am (2 edits total) Edited By: dp4m
	Now that I've read more than 50+ novels, I was just wondering what people think are the WORST novels in the EU? I'll give my list with a brief reason why. Dark Journey - Worst of the NJO by far. No point to the entire plot, and it amounts to nothing more than a soap opera like episode that has no impact on the overall narrative. Dark Nest Trilogy - the entire thing. This was a terrible and confusing way to follow up the NJO. Half the time I couldn't tell what was going on and most of the time I simply did not care. I really didn't like the overall premise of the Killiks and did not find them either interesting or worth suffering through one book, let alone three. Approaching Storm - basically Anakin, Obiwan, Luminara and Bariss Offee wandering through the desert. Novel can be summed up in one word: BORING. Jedi Trial - One page chapters? Every third page mentioning the troops dependence on water? Purple tea? Please. Allegiance - Sorry Zahn but this one just didn't cut it. This book needed way more Vader, more Emperor, less stormtroopers and a more coherent story. There are others but I'll stop there and see what others think. Generally, we don't do "favorites" threads or the reverse.
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Carnage04 Registered: Mar '05	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:03pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	I'll be the first to jump in and say Triple Zero. I thought Hard Contact was all right, but I swear that Triple Zero kept making me fall asleep. I think that is one book that has a following of people that love it, and people that hate it. That is the only Star Wars book that I regret reading (trying to at least...I honestly never finished it). I think some that have read more than I will point at The Dark Crystal though. Carnage -----signature----- Carnage I Finally decided to use a signature after 3500 posts! 3500 posts * 7 Characters = 24500 keystrokes wasted
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Whizkid Registered: Sep '03	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:07pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Children of the Jedi, Planet of Twilight, and Crystal Star all have almost no redeeming value. The New Rebellion is slightly better but still bad. The Cestus Deception was boring while Jedi Trial was horrible anytime Anakin wasn't present. Those are probably my 6 least favorite SW novels. -----signature----- "Only a Sith deals in Absolutes" "Do, or do not. There is no try"
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DarthBigTime Registered: Feb '07	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:08pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels - Date Edited: 3/21/07 4:09pm (1 edits total) Edited By: DarthBigTime
	I thought about adding Triple Zero but I think my problem wasn't so much the story, which I kind of enjoyed, but the fact that Karen Traviss likes to use the Mandalorian language so much. It was kind of cool for a little while, but it got pretty damn annoying throughout this book. In fact, even though I am enjoying the LOTF, I'm not really looking forward to the new Traviss novels because I know they are going to be Mandalorian heavy, and filled with even more of her annoying Mando tendencies. Maybe I'll be surprised but I have a feeling I won't.
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darth_Boba Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:25pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Carnage04 posted: I think some that have read more than I will point at The Dark Crystal though. I didn't know you could read a movie -----signature----- I can't say rim.
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Rouge77 Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:32pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Star by Star. Because it killed the only member of the younger generation who showed promise of being able to match the Big Three, to be the future hero of EU. -----signature----- Recipient of the Confederation Ewok with "Rebel Yub"® Action!! Kill Ben Skywalker, the new Jar-Jar!
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SephyCloneNo15 Registered: Apr '05	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:36pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels - Date Edited: 3/21/07 4:36pm (1 edits total) Edited By: SephyCloneNo15
	Before the Haters show up, I'm just going to point out that Dark Empire, aside from being awesome, is not qualifiable for this thread because it's a comic, not a novel. Edit: Also, every novel that doesn't feature Kyle Katarn kicking ass. -----signature----- Member: GDG, GMG. Sub-GM: CDG Zam Wessel Lives! Recipient of Thrawn McEwok's Squib Creations Limited-Edition Replica Glove of Darth Vader™ "Samuel L. Jackson isn't only a fine actor, but a gamer. He's one of us." ~ Kotaku
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GraySaberFreque Registered: Nov '06	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:46pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Rouge77 posted: Star by Star. Because it killed the only member of the younger generation who showed promise of being able to match the Big Three, to be the future hero of EU. Awwww, suck it up. Show some backbone, or did Denning take that from you too. -----signature----- Without (10,000 ABY)-http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/26293075/p1/?16 Padawan to Correlian_Ale Member Of The GDG Member Of the Anti-Hapan Society [CENTER][IMG http://www.wizards.com/magic/images/whatcolor_isred.jpg [/IMG][URL=http://www.wi
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Katana_Geldar Title: Former CR Tasmania, AU' Registered: Mar '03	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:49pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Darksaber, I still feel ripped off for the fifty cents I paid for it. The Bounty Hunter Trilogy -----signature----- Jacen and the two Vergeres http://gmgeldar.wordpress.com/vergere-essay/ Now, if you don't mind, I am somewhat preoccoupied telling the laws of physics to shut up and sit down.
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Rouge77 Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:51pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	What has spine - or the presumed lack of it - got to do with the unnecessary killing of the best character among the younger generation of SW characters? Why would stupid decisions just have to be accepted? -----signature----- Recipient of the Confederation Ewok with "Rebel Yub"® Action!! Kill Ben Skywalker, the new Jar-Jar!
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Barriss_Coffee Registered: Jun '03	Date Posted: 3/21/07 4:51pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Triple Zero -- My personal worst. Started out ok, then got boring. I also found it... well, depressing. And kind of angering, too... one of those novels you want to just enter yourself and start arguing with the characters about how hypocritical they're all being. Darksaber -- CLICHED! All the villains were the "Muhahahahaaa I'm gonna talk over the universe with my super-dee-duper WMD!!! W00T!" type. Drove me nuts reading the darned thing. Planet of Twilight -- This book depressed me. A lot. Rogue Planet -- I love Obi-Wan. I loved the cover of the book. The inside made very little sense, and what sense it did make I usually missed because it was a bunch of yapping. Seinar and Tarkin were pretty much carrying it the whole way. Ruins of Dantooine -- I guessed the plot twist from the very beginning. The only reason I kept reading it was because I was hoping I was wrong. The last two JA books -- Like Darksaber. Only with gullible angsty brats with WMDs. To think I actually liked Kyp in the first book... shudder -----signature----- SAN HILL LIVES!
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PerfectCell Registered: Jun '05	Date Posted: 3/21/07 5:11pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Dark Journey- I really hate Mara Jade's icy "I'm a hero unto myself that is better than any of you" persona, and Jaina in this book was ten times worse than that. Add her 300 page long PMS trip in with substandard Vong villains and you have one bad novel. Rogue Planet- I don't think I'm asking for much when I ask for a plot to make sense, or be interesting. Or, maybe I am and this book is actually genius. -----signature----- "When you have reached the end of the road then you can decide whether to go to the left or the right, to fire or to water. If you make those decisions before you have even set foot upon the road it will take you nowhere." - Galen
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RafVader Registered: Jan '07	Date Posted: 3/21/07 5:28pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	I like the Triple Zero for the Mando language, especially, the poetic like chants. It makes me think of ancient tribes preparing and going to war. WORST Children of the Jedi, Darksaber, and just a whole slew of Bantam era books. -----signature----- You can run, but you'll only die tired.~Boba Fett
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Obilieveinme Registered: Feb '05	Date Posted: 3/21/07 5:34pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Approaching storm...the ending was bad Allegiance...waste of time Rogue Planet...can you describe more things no one cares about. I didn't dislike any except Allegiance. I haven't read some of the others...but I am going to read Crystal Star...i heard that was the worst of all Oh yes, Splinter in the Minds eye...couldn't read it...Children as well. That is pretty tuff to do. I went back and finished Rogue. -----signature----- George W. Bush is the Ganner Rhysode of our time.
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RK_Striker_JK_5 Registered: Jul '03	Date Posted: 3/21/07 5:39pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels
	Star By Star, traitor and Dark Journey. the trilogy of suck. -----signature----- E-married to the wonderful DarthIshtar. Now also her Padawan. Member of the Y.J.K. Revolution Staring into the Darkness http://boards.theforce.net/beyond_the_saga/b10477/27537567/p1/?23
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kttch809 Registered: May '05	Date Posted: 3/21/07 5:45pm Subject: RE: Worst Star Wars novels - Date Edited: 3/21/07 6:03pm (4 edits total) Edited By: kttch809
	Jedi Trial - I felt that the parts with Anakin had some redeeming qualities (and for some odd reason Pors Tonith was the one thing that I liked most about that novel). The things that killed it for me were: -The romance of Odie and Erk -The logistics and artillery lectures. -The introduction of a character just to kill him off in the same scene. Barriss Coffee posted: Ruins of Dantooine -- I guessed the plot twist from the very beginning. The only reason I kept reading it was because I was hoping I was wrong. It came as a surprise to me because I read the prologue and then stopped reading it. In the month that passed before I picked that book up again I'd completely forgotten about it. Ruins of Dantooine eclipses Planet of Twilight as my least favorite SW novel. -----signature----- "The Force is a superstition, a myth people swear by. It's used to frighten children." -Luke Skywalker
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