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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1315358" data-attributes="member: 7394">I've read all 5 of the Zahn books as well as a fair number of the others, including about half of the New Jedi Order.I think that you could take elements of the Zahn books and they would make good novels. They did have the action, the character development, and this sense of scale that a lot of the others completely failed to capture. They did one thing wrong, though, in my opinion. Often times, for pages at a time, the characters would just sit around pontificating. It was as though he had nothing more to say, so the characters would just start talking about whatever struck their fancy for a while. I'm not saying that this sort of thing wouldn't happen in real life, but it certainly wasn't an element in either the prequels or the classic trilogy.The other problem that I see is his second two-book series. I like where it ends up, but [SPOILER]that whole scandal about how the bothans sold out a race, causing the empire to hunt them to exctinction was, in my opinion, not likely to have happened in the Star Wars universe. There was also the part where Luke was caught in what amounts to an overblown mousetrap in space.[/SPOILER]Now, on to the New Jedi Order. Man, I really wanted to like these books. I really did, especially since Salvatore wrote the first one of the series and then [SPOILER]proceeded to kill off a beloved wookie. The problem I see with this series is that half way through it they've killed off Anakin Solo, effectively destroyed Corruscant along with several other homeworlds of species that played major roles in the movies. In short, they changed so much that I'm not sure I still recognize it as Star Wars.[/SPOILER] I'll probably get around to reading the last half of the series, but based on the first half, I think its severely flawed and not really what I was looking for in the series.Personally I feel that if they do VII, VIII, & IX, they should ditch NJO completely, take the Zahn books as canon, but leave it in the past since the actors are now way too old to be playing the characters as they appear in those novels, and then show what happens to the next generation of Skywalkers. I think there's a lot of story left to tell, but it will require some major adjustments to the expanded universe as it currently exists.</blockquote>

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