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Re: SW set list for 2000
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:16:52 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> 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*.
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> 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.
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 movies have very little
in terms of character building and storyline. They are mostly Eye Candy on top
of a relatively simple storyline that has been rehashed a thousand times
(Although mostly in more Midevil/King Arthur type settings).
That being said I keep reading the novels because I am a big fan and love all
that is Star Wars.
I would have to say that my two favorite Star Wars authors would be Michael A.
Stackpole and Kevin J. Anderson.
Eric Kingsley
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| (...) 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. (25 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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