The Bounty Hunter Wars

By Jeter. Any thoughts? I would like to know if the series is worthwile. Thanks.

 

It's a pretty bad series, and it has little impact on the rest of the EU. You won't miss anything if you skip it. Some of the characterizations are a little off, and the plot is confusing at points.

However, if you want to see Fett kicking some ass, this might be the series for you.

 

I agree that some of the charactorizations are off. For instance, one thing I found annoying was the fact that Fett didn't shut up the entire series. In hard contradication to the quiet professional advertised in the other novels and movies.

 

Fett followed continuity for talking occasionally set forth by others, such as crispen(her fett talked alot), SWHS, and his first appearance in newspaper strips.

In book 3 of BHW he explains why he talks alot sometimes.

 

"I agree that some of the charactorizations are off. For instance, one thing I found annoying was the fact that Fett didn't shut up the entire series. In hard contradication to the quiet professional advertised in the other novels and movies."

Fett only talked when he had something to say. In the BHW, He had a lot to say, plain and simple. I thought it was a great seiries. I only found it annoying that it had 50 pg chapters, and spent seven pages every time somebody started thinking about something. Other than that, It was good.

Yes, You should read it.

 

I couldn't make it through the first of the series, even after about three tries. I just couldn't get into the story or the characters. Try it for yourself, though.

 

Book 2 was my favorite(out of the trilogy not out of star wars books in general). Book 3 was interesting though. Book 1 had good stuff, but it also was the one that made me cringe every time barve was mentioned. Kuat doesn't bother me though. As well first book is really the only book out of the trilogy to over use the word 'barve'.

 

Indeed, Bounty Hunter Wars is a rather misleading term. I prefer the Barve Hunter Wars,

 

Well, the first book should have been called the barvarian armor, since it's the only book out the trilogy to over use barve.

Book 2 used barve only a few times but nothing overbearing.

Book 3 didn't use barve at all.

So it's only in the first book that barve made me cringe by the end of the book.

 

those flashbacks are the MOST annoying thing in the entire galaxy. dont get me started...

 

i kinda liked the barve joke .. though I can't remember if it was in the BHW or one of the tales ...

anyways .. I don't really know what Jeter has done other than the BHW but it was my first step in the EU and i like the "roman noir" genre it had to it. (though the omniscience of fett was sometimes annoying - but I guess that's part of the genre too )

I liked the way his atachment to slave 1 was portrayed .. really shows what a 'lonesome cowboy' fett is.
the contracts negociations I found were hilarious.

 

I say you read it. I enjoyed them. If you don't like them, just do what everyone else does. Come here and create a post where you can B**** and moan about it. Personally I think it's annoying when people do that though.

 

Dreadful!!!...

If you are a fan of Fett...stay away from it...the characterizaion is awful...not only for Fett...but for many other characters......also jeter (ptooie {jm spits on the ground at his name}) has no sence of sublty what so ever.........anyone remember balance sheet?...i'd better kill him before he kills me...i'd better kill him before he kills me...i'd better kill him before he kills me...i'd better kill him before he kills me...i'd better kill him before he kills me...i'd better kill him before he kills me...(ad nausium)......oh no! (spoiler ) he killed me...what a suprise!!!

The flashbacks were irritating and much of the books were excessivly redundant or thrown in unnessesarly...it could easily have been a single book, but is instead pumped up to 3 using filler...

For a comparitively good read (accent on the comparatively), try reading the glove of darth vader set of books...the moffships...trioculous...now there is some comparitively decent writing.........and at least those don't assassinate Fett's character...

btw...Barve originates, to my knowledge, in Tales from Jabba's Palace: A Barve Like That

 

In that book, Barve had the context of being in a joke about some sort of livestock animal (we know its edible). It was Jeter who turned barve into the absolute household Word. I strongly suspect that he tried to replace 'the' with 'barve'.

I actually found it quite hilarious. The situation, not the books themselves. The origin (and only example of Barve that i'm aware of) occurred in a Tales anthology. So he must have at least glanced at Tales From Jabba's Palace. What i find extremely funny is that despite the fact that Bantam had him looking at the Tales anthologies (which i admit, one might not immediately think of, research-wise), yet he chose to ignore the one titled "Tales of the Bounty Hunters". The only stuff that Bantam had out there at the time on Bounty Hunters, which he was basing his books around, and he ignored it, probably never even read it. Read TotBH, then Book 1 (the clearest example of this) and you'll see what i mean.

 

He knew alot about manaroo.

 

That makes it even more ridiculous, because that indicates that he actually read some of it

 

The Bounty Hunter Wars Trilogy was good I thought. I mean we get to see Lord Vader choke Prince Xizor although Palpatine doesn't let him kill Xizor. And I thought the Shell Hutts were intersting.