Lit GENERAL QUESTION THREAD (What to read? Where to start? What's canon? What's not? Duros, etc.)

Sorry for the dp

So I am about 100 pages into "Children of the Jedi" and I am so bored. Here's the thing, I don't know if I should just go through the wookepeadia article on it or power through. Does it get better and/or is it worth finishing or should I move onto the next book chronologically?

 

How could you suggest that?
He's Duros.

Thank you so very much for that.

 

Is Children the one with Luke trapped in a ship run amok with giant dandelions? And by that I mean the dandelions were running amok, not Luke, who was mainly just taking his sweet time to explore the ship and be like "whoh dandelions, chill, give me a quest? No? You're not here for any purpose but just generally run amok? Ok fine I'll sweet talk the ship like R2."

I dunno guys that one wasn't so bad. The Gamorreans were cool. Would have made a better video game.

 

I honestly never did learn even the slightest thing about the so called Children of the Jedi because my brain was damaged by severe boredom. Even right after I read it, I still had no idea about any of it. I had no idea who or what they were, where they went or if Leia ever found them or what.

Where were they going? I don't quite know. What does it matter where people go? Down to the wood where the bluebells grow: anywhere, anywhere. I don't know.

 

The implication was that the Empire found them, captured them, and turned at least one to the Dark Side - Roganda Ismaren.

 

I'm planning to do a massive complete-ish Legends marathon. Some I've read before, many I haven't. Would you guys recommend reading in publication or chronological order or some combination and why? I wasn't sure if this warranted it's own thread or if it belonged here.

 

That sounds like good advice. I did think you can't go wrong with release order since that's how they were intended to be read. Grouping trilogies and series together also makes sense.

 

Do we know the name of the creature Luke rides on?

 

I just finished a Legends read through last month, reading only the Del Rey/Bantam books (so none of the Galaxy of Fear/YJK books). It took me over two years, but there were times I either read other books in the meantime, was too busy, or had trouble remaining motivated. With 153 Legends "adult" novels, it'll be a long, hard slog.

I did it chronologically, starting with Dawn of the Jedi: Into the Void and finishing up with Crucible. It would probably be too much of a hassle for me to try do read them in publication order.

 

Do you feel that doing chronological order was a satisfying experience?
I am mostly doing the adult novels and a lot of the comics, I’ve been picking up the collected columns. I’ll do audiobooks on the ones that are unabridged.

 

I don't believe they've been given an official name yet, no; until then, the Wook is referring to them as "unidentified long-legged mounts". Gareth Edwards called them "space camels".

I have a weird little hope that they'll be given a name referencing Salvador Dalí, since they call to mind his elephants for so many of us.

 

The image of the animal kinda resembles the line drawings of a person riding a beast that are in the Legends of Luke Skywalker book. However the drawings are quite small. For those with the book they are at the beginning and on the pages separating the stories. If it is the same beast it's called a fathier. From what I've seen they are kind of the equivalent of racehorses on Earth and they are raced on Canto Bight.

 

More satisfying than trying to do it in published order. Now, I have the Essential Guide to Reading, which does list all of the novels in published order up until Scoundrels. But the Legends novels published after that (or Mercy Kill) aren't included.

 

I read a book some time ago. I'm quite sure it was an RPG sourcebook/campaign guide. It detailed what Stormtrooper ID prefixes meant.
TK was for normal Stormtroopers.
TD was for "Sand Troopers".
TS was for scouts.
And so on. Does anyone know which book this was?

 

not sure if this is the place too ask or not but how does poe dameron end up getting off jakku?

 

Novelization shows the answer (summary: he meets up with somebody, and they give him a lift off).

 

I started reading the books in 2003, around the time the NJO ended, and I made an attempt to read them all in chronological order. And I can say first-hand that was a terrible mistake. There were plots and characters I didn't appreciate nor understand. Some books -- Rogue Planet particularly comes to mind -- were basically unreadable and at the time I didn't know why, and in that case wouldn't until I got to the NJO.

The ONLY books that worked... interestingly?... in chronological order as opposed to publishing order were the ones with Zsinj in them, and even then in retrospect, I don't know if they were "better" chronologically, because I think everyone else who read Courtship first enjoyed the Allston Zsinj plot because it was a zany take on an otherwise 2-bit character. For me it was the "rise and fall of the mini-Zsinj empire", although the "fall" is sort of meh after the trauma caused in books like Iron Fist.

 

Yes! Definitely those. I didn't get all the connections when I read them, especially the Hutts. Although what was really weird was Durga -- Durga was pretty interesting in the Han Solo books, but was a regular 2nd rate Dr. Evil-style evil in Darksaber. That was sort of the same fate of Zsinj -- they were more interesting and better developed in later books written by other authors.

BTW when I referred to "chronological" I meant in-universe, not publication order in case there was any confusion there -- I think I started with Cloak of Deception. Again, a book I was unduly harsh on because I didn't know a fifth of what Luceno was referencing.

 

Is there a space version of the coast guard in SW?