Lit The New AFTERMATH Discussion Thread (A Haven for Fans of Sanity) (no prerelease spoilers AT ALL)

I would like to reserve this thread for:

1) NO SPOILERS AT ALL until the Street Date for the book has arrived. If you have read spoilers elsewhere, please do not allude to them until then. This should be a thread where Spoiler Tags will not be necessary. Because before it's out, there will be no spoilers (for us weak-minded to be tempted), and after streetdate, an assumption that if you are in here you have read the book in its entirety, or don't care about being 100% spoiled.

2) PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ THE BOOK to discuss it.

Please respect this. Please let this thread be a haven away from generic Story Group Canon bashing. There are plenty of threads where that can happen, and even one for AFTERMATH where that is apparantly the thing to do. So. If you see something stated here that bugs or concerns you about the book, and you want to discuss it, and you haven't read it, feel free to tag the person who you want to ask about it over in the other thread.

It's okay to not like the book in this thread. I just ask that you have actually read it first. Thanks!

Thanks!

And with that:

 

Jeez, you wouldn't have lasted seconds on Death Star 2, all Sid would have to do is whip out Aftermath and declare he's read it.

 

Ah, so you're blowing up all the early copies so cutting off the source of temptation?

Interesting gambit.

 

I'm compromising. I want to hang out in an Aftermath anticipation thread, but I know my weaknesses.

 

I've only read one excerpt from aftermath and wish to discuss and speculate what the book will be like.

Is this allowed on this thread or will I just be ridiculed for suggesting such a concept?

 

Quite seriously, it's smart that you do.

 

Not ridiculed. I considered allowing discussion of the chapter placed on Starwars.com (I've read that myself!) , but figured it might be best to leave it completely 'clean' here, if that makes sense!

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I feel bad that an offhand comment on my part might have been what triggered the LSG-bashing fest that befouled the previous Aftermath thread. My apologies to everyone involved and I hope this thread remains the hoped-for "haven of sanity." The Dark Disciple thread sure could have used one of those, I tell you what.

Anyway, I won't be receiving Aftermath or any of the other JTSWTFA books until September 12, which means I will be enduring a long eight days. I'll just have to spend them enjoying the Rebels Season One bluray set, which I will be getting on street date

 

If this works out, I will seriously push for having one of these type of threads for each new release, in addition to the Free-For-All threads on the book. It may actually contribute to World Peace.

 

Motion to rename this thread The Greater River.

 

Best to play it on a case-by-case basis I'd say. Not every book will be subject to the same level of scrutiny and anticipation that Aftermath has been.

 

Or more accurately no teenage stock clerk in Wal-Mart or Books-A-Million goofed on those boxed items yet.

 

Good idea for a thread, that other one has become frightening.

Anyways, only a few more days till this is out. I'm quite excited.

 

This is definitely the book I've been most looking forward to so far. I'm hoping that there are quite a few nods to what's to come in TFA. I'm probably in the 1% from what I've seen on the forums so far lately, but I've been really enjoying the NEU. Granted I didn't read anything post ROTJ in the 'Legends' EU. Still need to get round to Dark Disciple but that will have to wait until after the Force Friday massacre on my Kindle!

 

If you're in the 1% you should buy the book for the rest of us.

 

#JelloDreamCanon

 

Not that 1%, firmly at the bottom of the 99% in that aspect!!

 

You're far from the only one, despite what it may look like in some...okay, most...threads. We don't always have the loudest volume, but we're out there.

 

Totally. Other than Heir to the Jedi, I've been quite pleased with the new canon novels thus far, and even that book wasn't bad, per se.