Are you alone in your knowledge of the EU!

My friends and I share alot of interests such as horror movies and extreme heavy metal music but when it comes to Star Wars and the EU I find myself alone with all of the knowledge that the novels and comics provide. My friends love the Star Wars movies and we watch them regulary but their interest stops with the movies and they dont read any of the EU.With brings me to my topic question. I find myself alone with the EU with no one to discuss or to share interests in everything Star Wars. Does anyone else have this same problem with their friends or am I just a big Star Wars geek with nothing better to do?

This is best suited for EUC, rather than EU Lit...

 

Yes I share the same problem. I only know one other person (face to face) that shares my liking of the EU except he doesnt like the New Jedi Order

 

I too have this problem. Only a bit larger: Nobody here likes SW. Last schoolyear my sworn nemesis started to read the EU (X-wing novels) but still i couldnt talked with him about it. And a few years ago somebody didnt wanted contact with me anymore: he was a big SWgeek altough also only movies.

So besides the boards here i am alone too.

 

If anyone I know in RL likes EU, they're keeping the secret very well.

 

I am! I'm a lone little girl in a straight-jacket. Not one person in my school likes SW at all. If they do they like to keep it secret

 

Me. I am the talking Star Wars encyclopedia among my friends.

 

It is the same for me. I know a few people who like the movies a lot like me. But in RL I have no friends who read the books or comics. Thus I am also a walking encyclopedia to them. Heck, only one of my friends who loves Star Wars even heard that Chewie died

 

I have two friends who read the EU, and one of them is quite knowledgable about it. Unfortunately, I see neither of them regularly. Besides them and my one friend who is "not a Star Wars fan, but a fan of Star Wars," no one I know has any knowledge of Star Wars, unless they're keeping quiet about it.

 

Too bad we couldn't all move to a town called Star Wars

 

One of my good friends, I suppose good friend likes the EU. She's not too keen on the NJO though for some strange, odd reason. Whatever floats her boat I guess.

I had a friend in high school who was a big EU fan like I am. We would have trivia challanges to see who knew the most. It was fairly evenly split, when you take into account my comic collection was limited. So any comic question I missed, but other than that it was a pretty close race.

 

I've got a worse problem. A fellow fan whose an EU poser. He's probably never read a Star Wars novel in his life, but all he did was pick up the New Essential Guide to Characters. So, in a few hours, he's accumulated the wealth of information which has taken me six years to build up myself. I can still nail him though. He doesn't even know who wrote the Thrawn trilogy.

Warrior_of_Mandalore Strikes Again!

 

I have several friends who are into SW, but only my best friend is an EU junkie like me. He owns pretty much every book sold, so I mostly borrow them from him when I need my fix, wheras I have nearly every SW comic released, and he borrows them from me when he needs a fix.

 

Yeah I'm definitley the master with my friends. They make fun of me all the time for it. Like when we played Star Wars trivial pursuit and I got the question right about how many rats are seen in the dungeons of Jabba's Palace, they almost beat me up. But now, I took on two of my friends as apprentices to my knowledge and I train them every Tuesday after school. It's so awesome, I've got them hooked on SW, but my other friends still make fun of me.

 

I am alone in my EU knowledge though my one friend has borrowed all my NJO books though he forgets to return them quite often.

 

I don't know of anyone else in person who is an EU fan. Although I did just recently meet this girl at work who is a huge fan of the movies; I haven't asked her if she reads the EU yet.

 

Nope; one of my best friends is an EU junkie too. Well, in fact he was the one who got me into Star Wars. I guess I'm lucky.

 

heh.. you folks do know that probably in your area, there is a chapter of FanForce (easily found on the boards here at tf.n) where you might find other EU-noggined people such as yourself... you still might be the top cheese of EU in the club, but at least people will know what you are talking about... after all, someone has to have bought all those other copies of the books in the bookstore, that you left on the shelf.