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Hi /lit/, /tv/ here. I was wondering if there are any Star Wars books that you guys would actually consider " well written". Pic possibly related.
Thanks in advance.

>> No.5209758

In short, no.

But I'll give you the best of the worst:
Timothy Zhan
Kevin J. Anderson
Steve Perry

>> No.5209760

Thrawn Trilogy is the universal "only thing worth reading" answer

>> No.5209761

>>5209748
When I was a young teenager I read nothing but star wars novels and have read something like 42 of them in total. Matthew Stover is probably the closest you're going to get to stuff that isn't absolutely horrible. New Jedi Order: Traitor by him was pretty good.

None of them are well written, though. And I don't just mean "muh prose," I mean the characters, plot, and general themes are universally haphazard and idiotic.

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5209766

I liked these.

In before those limp Zahn books

>> No.5209769

>>5209748
The Lando Trilogy is definitely high grade crap.

>> No.5209772

>>5209748
>Timothy Zhan
>>5209760
>Thrawn Trilogy is the universal "only thing worth reading"
But it was shit!

>> No.5209781

>>5209761
>mathew stover
This

>> No.5209791

>>5209748
I read a bunch of them and I don't think any of them were very well written. I'm sure they'd be cringier if I tried to read them again today, but I liked this trilogy the best: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Han_Solo_Trilogy

>> No.5209795

>>5209772
Yes, the best of the worst is still shit. This has been established.

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>>5209795
They were slow and pointless. They introduced characters and Force stopping marsupials. Three long books of boredom. They were shit by Star Wars standards.

>> No.5209884

>>5209841
But Thrawn was the coolest.

>> No.5209933

I remember reading the Boba Fett books (startin from episode till he grew up or something). Loved it.

No idea if I, as a grown adult, would like them now

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this shit was awesome

>> No.5209993

>>5209748
Good writers are too arrogant to do hack work unless it's their own original hack work, and even then it pisses them off to be reminded of shit they wrote for money.

>> No.5210704

>>5209766
What is up with those condoms?