ID, I don't think anyone's done Han better than Daley, but that's praise for him, not a slight to the collective known as James SA Corey. There's definitely some of the Han/Jessa and Han/Fiolla snap to the exchanges between Han and Scarlet, yes.
Gamiel, if you're really looking to read some good TCW rants, some brought to you buy Zeta, I'd read this thread (last 20-30 pages or so). I'm sure there's some good stuff in there, and I imagine I've contributed my fair share of rants as well. Just beware it's a very, very, very depressing read. Depressing in a way that only people slitting their wrists on cyberspace over a children's cartoon can be.
Ok, I read a little bit of the first Daley book while in a waiting room. It's kind of wild. It makes for a fun antiquarian exercise realizing how the guy had to make it up as he went along, because there wasn't an EU outside of Splinter, or even a film trilogy, to work from. The bit about having to use the lower quad gun as a defense mechanism while landing was fun because it precedes the little anti-personnel gun seen in ESB. It's cool that despite everything being new, it's all rather thought out: little things like having an interrupter on the lower turret so it doesn't shoot out the ship's landing gear shows presence of mind an a concern for the internal workings of the fictional setting, which is cool. Also, my favorite little bit: blaster carbines with bayonets. Awesome. Kyle Katarn, why didn't you ever use a bayonet? Anyway, if things continue as they are, I should finish the trilogy well ahead of the release of this book. Yay.
Wrote an appreciation of Han Solo at Stars End back in the day. It's here. Will be interested in your opinions after you read it, GAJ and AN.
No one, no matter how snappy a dresser they may be, has the right to utter one word about lack of quality in the EU until they read what's close to the best it has to offer As for the Lando books, they're extra credit.
And, true to this, IIRC the Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook leaves the surface defense blaster out of the Falcon's stats. Apparently, he picked it up between the Corporate Sector and A New Hope. Anyway, while I think Daley is the better writer, I do find myself coming back to the Lando books more often. I think it's because they're just so out there that they're more of a relief from how formulaic and devoid of wonder the more recent EU has been.
TBH, the Lando books were too out there. I enjoyed Vuffi Raa. But other than that, I actually had to force myself through them until the last thirty pages of the last book–which was by far the best out of the three.