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Re: SW set list for 2000
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lugnet.starwars
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Tue, 19 Oct 1999 14:42:38 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 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
of my suspended disbelief.
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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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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