/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.20440741]

Best Star Wars books? Read Thrawn Trilogy, Shadows of the Empire, and Darth Plagueis.

[Anonymous No.20440818]

>>20440741
the audiobook of stars wars crucible is cool.

[Anonymous No.20441029]

>>20440741
>>20440818
how many dicks were in your ass while making this post

[Anonymous No.20441033]

>>20440741
This is a literature board.

[Anonymous No.20441061]

>>20440741
Objectively Thrawn Trilogy, RotS novelization, and Traitor. The X-Wing books and Shatterpoint are also great.

Subjectively, I have a soft spot for Shadows of Mindor for leaning into the pulp and for Allston’s FotJ/LotF books. Young Jedi Knights is also an impeccable children’s series.

>>20440818
Marc Thompson is one of my favorite audiobook narrators.

[Anonymous No.20441074]

>>20441029
not enough

[Anonymous No.20441324]

>>20440741
I liked the first Darth Bane book. Haven't read the others but if you like knights of the old republic look into those

[Anonymous No.20441330]

I liked the "Saga of Moo'Gloo-Tharn" books where Captain Mombulo and the Zoopertrons go to Planet Barglesnax to find the ancient Merpulian artifact and stop the giant laser from blowing up the galaxy.

[Anonymous No.20442384]

>>20440741
>Best Star Wars book
Revenge of the Sith, the other SW books by Matthew Stover (Traitor, Shatterpoint and the Shadows of Mindor) are also pretty good.

[Anonymous No.20442485]

>>20440741
Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson was way better than I was expecting. It started a little slow, but by the time it was over it was everybody I wanted it to be. It's a shame Phasma was tossed away like garbage by Disney so soon after introducing her as a character.

[Anonymous No.20442507]

>>20440741
>>20441061
Hand of Thrawn is objectively far superior to the Thrawn trilogy

[Anonymous No.20442559]

>>20442485
*everything I wanted it to be. I swear my brain is broken the last few years.

[Anonymous No.20442598]

unironically underrated

[Anonymous No.20443096]

I liked the tales books:
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina
Tales from Jabba's Palace
Tales of the Bounty Hunters

[Anonymous No.20443691]

>>20440741
The Dark Lord Trilogy

[Anonymous No.20443705]

>>20442384
The ROTS novelization is really excellent, but I always hated how rushed the last third or so was, like Stover was running out of time or something.

[Anonymous No.20443806]

>>20440741
Clone Commando series.

[Anonymous No.20443875]

>>20440741
These are fun.

[Anonymous No.20443898]

>>20442384
Unironically better than the movie for Anakin's introspection alone. I read this when the movie came out and its stuck with me ever since. First Darth Bane book is exceptionally good, but I did not care for the rest of the trilogy.

[Anonymous No.20443915]

>>20440741
Any good Star Wars books involving archaeology? I always got excited by ruins in SW games only to be disappointed a moment later when I realised they were just background sets.

[Anonymous No.20443933]

Darksaber was pretty good.

[Anonymous No.20443969]

>>20443915
Iirc Bane has some in it cause of the sith acadamey
If not kotor 1 an 2 certainly do

[Anonymous No.20443999]

>>20443915
I wouldn't say any of the books, but the Darth Vader comics by Marvel explored an abundance of lore for both the darkside and the light. Believe there was an entire segment dedicated to the Jedi Archive, Librarian and some ancient relic weapons. Vader also reaches out to an ancient darkside spirit when constructing his castle on Mustafar, so several comic arcs are dedicated to acquiring resources for the process. Can't think of really any books that go into archaeology heavily.

[Anonymous No.20444016]

>>20442384
>Shatterpoint
Shatterpoint is essentially “Heart of Darkness” with Jedi, and brings a whole lot of apartheid analogues which make it one of the most explicit depictions of racism ever seen in Star Wars. This is not just “these people don’t get along” like the Naboo and Gungans either, there is blood spilled, it is incredibly violent in places, often from the most unexpected areas and the whole book is relentless in wearing down its protagonists and the reader.

It’s also the greatest insight into the mind of Mace Windu. While he’s arguably one of the most popular prequel characters, in the movies he is essentially just Mace Windu: Awesome Jedi. Even in the comics and The Clone Wars we don’t get a great deal of information about the kind of man he is. Shatterpoint is essentially a Mace Windu character study and gives some interesting looks into not only Mace, but also the nature of the force and the dark side, and what it means to be a peacekeeper in a time of war.

[Anonymous No.20444188]

>>20443969
I'll check Bane out.

I should have said Kotors were an exception for that surface feeling of hollowness. Kotor 2 is pretty much about the results of past events with every other locale being a ruin. Maybe I don't really like Star Wars, but the image of it I got from playing unpatched xbox Kotor 2 as a kid who barely understood English and hadn't played the first one.

>>20443999
Thanks. I'll look those out.

[Anonymous No.20444238]

I started the New Jedi Order series when i was a kid but never finished the series but I really liked it.
The Dark Nest trilogy was kinda gay, i didnt care much for it
i read every Young Jedi Knight book in the series when i was a kid too, and i really liked that series

[Anonymous No.20444410]

[Anonymous No.20444434]

>>20440741
Reading Dynasty of Evil right now, then Plagueis and Thrawn trilogy.

>>20441029
>>20441033
Sneed's cope and soap.

[Anonymous No.20444818]

>>20440741
But what's the worst SW novels?

[Anonymous No.20444828]

>>20444410
this.
the Bounty Hunter Wars trilogy is bad but fun
the Young Han Solo trilogy and even the original Han trilogy (Stars' End etc)
the X-Wing Rogue/Wraith books
Black Fleet Crisis isn't good and the aliens are retarded but at least it's not another superweapon
Darksaber is shitty even though the concept of a Hutt building a thrift store Death Star is fun
Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina/Jabba's Palace/of the Bounty Hunters

[Anonymous No.20445519]

>>20444818
I've heard it's crystal star but I don't know

[Anonymous No.20445521]

>>20443915
I think it's book 2 of the Bane trilogy which features Bane hunting through Sith ruins in the search for holocrons.

[Anonymous No.20445912]

>>20445519
there was one where Jaina Solo has an orgy with bug aliens or something. or the gay Mandalorian couple one

[Anonymous No.20445951]

>>20440741
The X-Wing series. The original 9 books are all pure Kino, the tenth book is a later 2015 addition and includes elements of nu-wars and woke, so just read the original nine and throw the tenth in a trash fire.

[Anonymous No.20446016]

>>20443898
I'm lukewarm on the Darth Bane trilogy, but I felt like the third book was the strongest. The main problem I had was how repetitive it was. Oh look, another quest for a holocron in a dead Sith tomb, temple, or whatever...

[Anonymous No.20446160]

I read...all the star wars as a child. I stopped reading it around the end of the YHV series.
I always hoped that the books would make it into movies some day.
When I found out the EU was trashed, I vowed not to watch the nuwars. And I never have. Fuck you mouse.

[Anonymous No.20446351]

[Anonymous No.20446599]

>>20444434
I'm currently reading Darth Plagueis. It feels like it ties in nice with the Darth Bane trilogy. Definitely not something you should read before that anyway.

[Anonymous No.20447576]

>>20444016
Spot on, anon. Shatterpoint is one of the best EU novels for all those reasons. >>20440741
Has no one recc'd Dark Rendezvous yet? Lovely novel, with a focus on Dooku, Yoda, and two Jedi younglings that accompany him.

[Anonymous No.20448832]

>>20443875
I've been listening to Red Harvest but I found it a bit disappointing. None of the characters feel like they matter and just seem to be there to act as viewpoints to the horror until they suddenly die.

[Anonymous No.20448844]

>>20448832
I never say that it's a good book, it's fun. It's like reading a B-horror movie.

[Anonymous No.20448868]

>>20448844
Fair enough

[Anonymous No.20448899]

>>20441324
The second book in the trilogy is good, and the third book is alright.

[Anonymous No.20450712]

Waru Did Nothing Wrong

[Anonymous No.20450795]

How 'bout this

[Anonymous No.20451635]

>>20444434
>Reading Dynasty of Evil right now, then Plagueis and Thrawn trilogy.
The golden trilogy. They're good.