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Re: SW set list for 2000
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:31:01 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@avoidspamNOVERA.COM
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Matthew Miller wrote:
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> Joel Hoornbeek <joel@webaccess.net> wrote:
> > how he basically blew his way out of the Sarlacc. The writing level isn't of
> > the same level as Timoth Zahn (few writers are), but overall I thought it was
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> Oh my god let me just take this moment to say: the Timothy Zahn Star Wars
> novels were some of the worst writing I've ever seen. Plot twists you could
> see coming from, um, parsecs away. And about every other person is described
> as having "shimmery" hair. *gah*.
Agreed. He HAS done better work, but even his best is merely airplane
fodder rather than "wow, that changed how I think about X" stuff.
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| (...) of (...) was (...) I tend to agree as well for all the Star Wars books. I have read nearly all of them and none has been great there were a few that were good but that is the best it gets. I think the biggest problem is that even the Star Wars (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) of (...) was (...) I didn't mind them, but then, I wasn't looking for high liturature. ;) My biggest nit with his SW books was the bad guy was omniscient until book three, at which point he start being stupid. Dropped me right out the bottom (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Oh my god let me just take this moment to say: the Timothy Zahn Star Wars novels were some of the worst writing I've ever seen. Plot twists you could see coming from, um, parsecs away. And about every other person is described as having (...) (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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