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noyrog
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5/14 8:39pm
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Clone War Mando novels
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Are these worth reading, im talking about Hard Contact, Triple Zero, True Colors, and Order 66...
For the sake of avoiding redundancy, let's take it to the thread linked below.
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timmoishere
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5/14 8:58pm
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Triple Zero was pretty terrible, but the others are good. Order 66 hasn't come out yet, though.
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Commando, please. 
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timmoishere
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_Catherine_ posted:
Commando, please.
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Etain
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This Thread might be of interest to you. It's about the series. 
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Excellence
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Bottom line
Hard Contact: commendable
Triple Zero: utter boredom, no action scene, 400 pages of talking
True Colours: excellent, best yet
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Etain
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<- changed username 
I love them all. 
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patchworkz7
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Excellence posted:
Triple Zero: utter boredom, no action scene, 400 pages of talking
I normally agree with you Ex, and while I do think that TZ almost needs the warning that it's a DRASTIC change from the other books, many people really liked the fact that there was a sudden shift towards a strictly character driven book, and the fact that the whole thing was a deep look at the life of soldiers.
It was almost a peacetime setting given the lack of combat, and given the previous title and expectations from the game, I can see how it could be jarring, but I think she really went for more of a character driven look at military persons as well as doing more of a "true" special forces novel; you see all the planning that's essentiall boring in special forces and then because they are good they knock over the bad guys in seconds at the end.
A good picture of military men and life, and a lot of RL soldiers from around the world have written her to complement her about that, but in the end, a more action driven story would have keep interest from all parties. And the lack of seeing the enemy as nothing but a faceless terrorist threat kinda hurt worse than them being droids. Since Traviss plays with moral ambiguity, it was a great chance to show what the Seppies believe, but it sorta got dropped in favour of a stronger and deeper look at the personal lives of the clones and a more introspective book.
I think TC is actually between the two, and manages to blend the needed action with the introspection in a way TZ didn't, and it's fantastic as a result.
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