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Books Empire & Rebellion #2: Honor Among Thieves

Discussion in 'Literature' started by Barriss_Coffee, Sep 9, 2013.

  1. jasonfry

    jasonfry VIP star 4 VIP

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    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.
     
  2. Jedi Ben

    Jedi Ben Chosen One star 10

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    Only 5 minutes? My, he's slowed down!
     
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  3. Zeta1127

    Zeta1127 Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    Figures, I have become notorious for speaking my mind.
     
  4. instantdeath

    instantdeath Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    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.
     
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  5. Zeta1127

    Zeta1127 Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    I am just frustrated with the current state of Star Wars, and it shows in everything I post.
     
  6. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    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.
     
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  7. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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    Gracias
     
  8. AdmiralNick22

    AdmiralNick22 Retired Fleet Admiral star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I have never read them either... [face_nail_biting][face_shhh]

    --Adm. Nick
     
  9. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    GrandAdmiralJello and AdmiralNick22, Loyalist and Rebel, joint shames of the Literature Forum.
     
  10. jasonfry

    jasonfry VIP star 4 VIP

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    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.
     
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  11. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    They haven't read the book--their opinions don't matter.
     
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  12. AdmiralNick22

    AdmiralNick22 Retired Fleet Admiral star 6 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    Does that mean I also have to read the Lando books too?

    --Adm. Nick
     
  13. instantdeath

    instantdeath Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    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.
     
  14. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    [face_laugh] My thoughts exactly!


    We could be twins. You know, if you weren't a rabble-rousing fish. :p
     
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  15. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    Frankly, I liked the Lando books better.
     
  16. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    But I've already read WEG.

    also Lando would totally approve of my fashion sense
     
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  17. Havac

    Havac Former Moderator star 7 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    You are a monster.

    And Nick, READ DALEY.
     
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  18. jSarek

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    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.
     
  19. Gorefiend

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    You have not ?! [face_plain]

    Everyone should read them, several times in fact!
     
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  20. Force Smuggler

    Force Smuggler Chosen One star 7

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    Read the Lando books! They are awesome!
     
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  21. CooperTFN

    CooperTFN TFN EU Staff Emeritus star 7 VIP

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    It's time for DR to just admit they lost all their Falcon stock photos except this one.

    [​IMG]
     
  22. Jedi Ben

    Jedi Ben Chosen One star 10

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    Nah, they just forgot to renew their image license account.
     
  23. Revanfan1

    Revanfan1 Force Ghost star 6

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    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.
     
  24. Todd the Jedi

    Todd the Jedi Mod and Loving Tyrant of SWTV, Lit, & Collecting star 7 Staff Member Manager

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  25. Gamiel

    Gamiel Chosen One star 9

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    is that an E-wing?