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Rangi Guy wrote:Just finished Tarkin - really enjoyed this....a lot more than I expected to.
Now back into the Aftermath books

That's a glowing review but a fitting one.

Is Dark Disciple worth reading? I want to find out what happened to Ventress.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Is Dark Disciple worth reading? I want to find out what happened to Ventress.

I've heard very good things about it. But I haven't read it yet myself.

@SkitchP wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:
But, yeah, I'm with you. I probably will pick up more of the expanded stuff before I tackle any of the film novelizations. Catalyst, Tarkin, Bloodline, Aftermath, Ahsoka. All these seem more immediately interesting to me. I just really love Bodhi and want to know what's added/revealed in the R1 book. Not really motivation enough for me to buy the thing.

Apparently, from what I have been able to glean from assorted discussions is that it really focuses on the relationship between Bodhi and Galen Erso. Why Bodhi is so devoted and such. Possibly sexual.

First part: Yes, it does have more of that. Second part: no? That's some liberal-as-fuck reading into the parts of the book. They met in the cafeteria and Galen is more of a father figure than anything else. "You can be a better person Bodhi" is the extent of it and Bodhi tries and tries to be better because of that.

Reading through these "illustrated" novels with my son and they're alright. The first one has some interesting interior dialogue that explains a couple things that you can't glean from the movie (and Han shoots first) and I recommend it for middle-schoolers.

The second one I was most excited to read because his Grimm books are hilarious to read out loud. Sadly, he tells the entire thing through second-person and it's no fun to read out loud at all. Saving grace is that it's also got some bits that are different from the movie.

The third one we're working through now and my son's read a lot of the Origami Yoda books so he was interested in this one. It's the most straight-forward of the books so far, almost boring really. And it has scenes from the special editions so that's an automatic demerit.

Oh I totally just made that up.

durdencommatyler wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Is Dark Disciple worth reading? I want to find out what happened to Ventress.

I've heard very good things about it. But I haven't read it yet myself.

I loved this one. Really cool read.

I'm finally about to finish Tarkin. It lost me for a little while in the middle, but it's ending strong. I wouldn't mind seeing an episode in Rebels or maybe even a movie solely from the Empire's view. Maybe some of the hierarchy on Courasant that the Tarkin book mentions. Perhaps a Thrawn / Tarkin episode. That could have potential.

I just started Tarkin over the weekend.

@SkitchP wrote:Oh I totally just made that up.

Oh. Well.

Finished the Return of the Jedi retelling and it's got a lot of SE stuff in it. It's also got this bit about a rebel kid that doesn't fit the movies, see if this sounds familiar to anyone watching Rebels:

The brave rebels far away began spreading the word from planet to planet to fight back. And one boy sent a message across the worlds that ignited a spark of rebellion.

3PO is telling the stories from Episode 1 to present to the Ewoks to try to get them to fight for the Rebellion. The paragraph before is Episode III and the paragraph after is Episode IV so it can only be Rebels, right?

I just read Ahsoka. And now Im deciding which to read next. Probably catalyst? Maybe Dark Disciple.

Just finished off the Aftermath series. Would have made a great book - not sure it required being spread over 3

@SkitchP wrote:I just read Ahsoka. And now Im deciding which to read next. Probably catalyst? Maybe Dark Disciple.

Did you like the Ahsoka book?

durdencommatyler wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:I just read Ahsoka. And now Im deciding which to read next. Probably catalyst? Maybe Dark Disciple.

Did you like the Ahsoka book?

Yes. At times it did the prequel thing of "gloss over the thing that sounds awesome" and it rushed through some things at different points. But it filled in a lot of the gap between Ep III and Rebels.

@SkitchP wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

@SkitchP wrote:I just read Ahsoka. And now Im deciding which to read next. Probably catalyst? Maybe Dark Disciple.

Did you like the Ahsoka book?

Yes. At times it did the prequel thing of "gloss over the thing that sounds awesome" and it rushed through some things at different points. But it filled in a lot of the gap between Ep III and Rebels.

from dime's thrawn thread...

dimejinky99 wrote:Make me a forum I'll make it my kingdom playground

You nailed it wease.
I don't want to read it. But apparently it's tying into loads of snoke and palpatine stuff.

I've never really cared much about Thrawn but I'm always up for some Emperor/Palpatine stuff. I may have to get the book just for that. The verdict is still out on Snoke. Not sure if I care or not about him yet.

There's an interesting challenge with snoke. How do you set him up as the main bad guy but differentiate him from the emperor? From the leaks it sounds like they're doing a great job.

I just finished a New Dawn and really enjoyed getting to know Kanan and Hera

@SkitchP wrote:I just finished a New Dawn and really enjoyed getting to know Kanan and Hera

I just ordered this and the Dark Disciple

I like Kanan so much more now after reading that.

Rebel rising.

Book about Jyn coming. In her time between leaving Saw and up to rogue one.

Sounds tasty. Chubby looking fan girl wrote it but she knows her stuff