The "Tales from..." anthologies

Which of them, if any, are good?

 

They are of mixed quality, which is to be expected of anthologies.

 

Depends on what your favorite scene is, between the three of them.

Personally, I like Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina the most.

 

They're all good but like said before, it's variable quality on the stories as with all anthologies.

 

Hey, ReaperFett, good to see your still with us. Was wondering about a couple months ago when I hadn't seen you post for a while if you'd left or what. Maybe you were still posting and I just didn't pay enough attention or check out the threads you posted in.

Ok, on the subject at hand you've got to remember that your dealing with short stories done by various authors. This doesn't mean that just because author X is not author Y that their stories are going to naturally be better or worse than Y, it means that each is going to do their story the way they feel is best to tell it. We may find that we wish they had done it a different way or that we like how they did it.

 

Hey, ReaperFett, good to see your still with us. Was wondering about a couple months ago when I hadn't seen you post for a while if you'd left or what. Maybe you were still posting and I just didn't pay enough attention or check out the threads you posted in.

Pretty much stopped posting. Haven't read a novel since TUF and was avoiding all things ROTS related, so stopped coming

 

It depends which era you prefer to read in, and which characters you like. I read like the three that I read (...Empire, ...New Republic and Tales from Jabba's Palace), but I skipped over the stories that didn't appeal to me. That's the beauty of anthologies.

 

Empire: cheesy, chummy Star Warsy stoies, like Rebellious elements fighting a tyrannical empire . . . sheesh. Some good notables, as well as Side Trip sans its two major typos.

New Rep: generally bland, cliche, and Darknell integrated all those well.

Mos Eisely: the best of them, nearly all stories leading into each other, recommended.

Bounty Hunters: some good, some plain, but the last sentence never ended!

Jabba's Palace: bookwide immaturity!

(Was what Ree-Yees' emergency culinary resuscitation supposed to be funny?)

 

Well, I hope we see more of you in the future ReaperFett. We didn't always agree, in fact I think we were on opposing sides 80-90% of the time, but I did respect you. Especially as someone who tended to do pretty decent posts.

 

I have read Tales of the Bounty Hunters and Tales from Jabba's Palace. Both were superb, but I liked Bounty Hunters better. Jabba's palace was alright I suppose. I look forward to reading the rest. (somewhat new to the EU)

 

I liked them because most of the stories had to do with peripheral characters who were diffrent in each story.

 

I enjoyed Mos Eisley and Jabba's Palace a lot. Couple of the stories in the Bounty Hunter's were really good.

 

I read a summary of the Boba Fett story in TotBH somewhere and it seemes to conflict with his history as we now know it from the films. Is that true? That book sat on my shelf for years and when I finally decided to read it someone had just given it away.

 

No, the Fett story doesn't cover the same years as AotC. It's much later.

 

I still want a Tales of the Fleet

Best stories in Empire are Side Trip and Retreat from Coruscant

 

Tales from Jabba's Palace is one my favorite books ever. You have to read all the stories to get the complete picture of what was really going on. Jabba was a dead man three times over when Leia killed him. You'll never look the same way again at characters like Ephant Mon or the Rancor Keeper. By turns funny, sad, touching, and even horrifying (Fett's tale) you learn quite a bit more than you would have thought at first glance. Almost like the show Lost, actually. Highly recommended.

Catina sucks though, the stories stand on their own and aren't that intresting.

 

I thought most of Cantina and Jabba's Palace was good. I'd definately like to see more of them; they offer backrounds to some of the lesser known characters.



(Was what Ree-Yees' emergency culinary resuscitation supposed to be funny?)

Actually it was "resus-susperation".

 

I might buy 3 copies of this book if it was ever released. I wish they'd make some podracing books and at least one podracing movie.

In conclusion the Tales of ... are some of the best books in the EU in my opinion.

 

Agreed. I love those Tales books. Particulary Bounty Hunters and Jabba's Palace. I love the bounty hunters, and the Tales for it was an awesome read. Jabba's Palace was interesting, because you got to see what really went on there, behind the scenes. The treachery, lies, deception, blackmail, plots, sex, betrayals and death all reminded me of the seedy underworld crime bosses sit through today. The2ndQuest's ideas were brilliant, as I'd love to see Tales of the Podracers and Tales from the Outlander. You definetely have a lot of material and characters to work with there. Even the Senate could be a good one, although they'd probably be about the corrupt senators.

 

I realised that, EmperorSorridom.

That Fett one was very good. Read it today.

 

Tales from the Empire and New Republic are made up of stories from the WEG RPG adventure guides (or action journels or whatever they called them). Yeah, the quality varies, however I would like to see many, many more "Tales from.." books.

 

Now we need a "Tales from the Podracing Circuit", "Tales from the Old Republic", "Tales from the Clone Wars", and "Tales from the Yuuzhan Vong War" to make us greedy fans happy.