Darth_Hydra posted:I got tired of Stover shoving "WAR IS ****!" down my throat so I stopped reading a little past the half-way point.
ezekiel22x posted:I didn’t like it, as I only like books with fuzzy care bear robots and cozy tea parties and frolicking adventures through bubble fields of joy and love.
Jedi Ben posted:Shatterpoint for me was Stover's best work without question. Sure ROTS is good but it pales to the impact Shatterpoint had. This book shows exactly what the Clone Wars exist to do, how and why yet also affirms why the Jedi do what they do. They lose? Of course they lose, the game was set so they could only lose. Shatterpoint was the 1st Clone Wars book, it had to set the standard and it did - too bad the rest of CW never matched it. It also took the realistic style being deployed by DR to its ultimate extension, after Shatterpoint anything would pale in comparison.
Tricky posted:The thing about Shatterpoint is that it is the only SW book to my knowledge that was written for a mature/adult audience, as opposed to every other SW book being written for a pre-teen/teen demographic. I mean try & compare it to something like the Cestus Deception, another CW book dealing with an ongoing war. In there you have sentient eels, Jedi killer droids that hardly kill anyone, a cute but awkward love story between a clonetrooper & real girl & absolutely zero content dealing with the horror that is ground warfare. I liked the Cestus Deception, but it has an altogether different flavor compared to Shatterpoint.
cbagmjg posted:I liked it, but yeah, I thought his ROTS was better. There was alot in ROTS book that I wish was in the movie. I have only read like 6 Star Wars novels so far, but Shadow Hunter is probably my favorite on the basis that Darth Maul is a badass character to read. It's too bad he wasn't in more novels.
SlackJawedJedi posted:It's the book that made horrific wartime violence awesome. No seriously.
Charlemagne19 posted:I used to be a Big Anti-Stover fan. Then I read Shatterpoint and Revenge of the Sith. What I love is the fact that he utterly contrasts Vegere/Jacen against Mace Windu. They have the same thoughts, ideas, and problems with the Force. ....And come to utterly different conclusions.
DarthNidLoc posted:SlackJawedJedi posted:It's the book that made horrific wartime violence awesome. No seriously. One of the funniest posts I have seen in a while while at the same time being so true. The only SW author other then Strover to make the Clone wars seem as horrific as they should be is Traviss in the RC novels.