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Simple Torture wrote:Simple Torture wrote:I started this yesterday and read about the first 10% (according to my Kindle--probably about 40 pages). My priors when it comes to Star Wars books is pretty extensive, but also pretty distant in the past--I read about 50 EU novels in middle school or around there, but nothing much since. I remember them being sweeping and filled with drama and action and intrigue. I am, uh, not sure now, 20+ years later, if either my memory is clouded or if this new book just doesn't live up to those standards. Even just this little bit in, I do find the general plot as something that I'd like to follow and find out more about, but I am just not a fan of the writing at all. Bland, repetitive, and unimaginative. But I will probably keep at this on the side while reading other stuff.
This has gotten a bit better (about 1/3 of the way through), but boy oh boy, this is an actual sentence from this published book:“Is that really helpful?” said his copilot, Pikka Adren, second-in-command of the Aurora III and first-in-command of his heart.
Wed January 20, 2021 2:42 pm
Strat wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Simple Torture wrote:I started this yesterday and read about the first 10% (according to my Kindle--probably about 40 pages). My priors when it comes to Star Wars books is pretty extensive, but also pretty distant in the past--I read about 50 EU novels in middle school or around there, but nothing much since. I remember them being sweeping and filled with drama and action and intrigue. I am, uh, not sure now, 20+ years later, if either my memory is clouded or if this new book just doesn't live up to those standards. Even just this little bit in, I do find the general plot as something that I'd like to follow and find out more about, but I am just not a fan of the writing at all. Bland, repetitive, and unimaginative. But I will probably keep at this on the side while reading other stuff.
This has gotten a bit better (about 1/3 of the way through), but boy oh boy, this is an actual sentence from this published book:“Is that really helpful?” said his copilot, Pikka Adren, second-in-command of the Aurora III and first-in-command of his heart.
Yea im really struggling with moving forward in this book .im at that 10% mark right now....
Wed January 20, 2021 2:45 pm
Strat wrote:Strat wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Simple Torture wrote:I started this yesterday and read about the first 10% (according to my Kindle--probably about 40 pages). My priors when it comes to Star Wars books is pretty extensive, but also pretty distant in the past--I read about 50 EU novels in middle school or around there, but nothing much since. I remember them being sweeping and filled with drama and action and intrigue. I am, uh, not sure now, 20+ years later, if either my memory is clouded or if this new book just doesn't live up to those standards. Even just this little bit in, I do find the general plot as something that I'd like to follow and find out more about, but I am just not a fan of the writing at all. Bland, repetitive, and unimaginative. But I will probably keep at this on the side while reading other stuff.
This has gotten a bit better (about 1/3 of the way through), but boy oh boy, this is an actual sentence from this published book:“Is that really helpful?” said his copilot, Pikka Adren, second-in-command of the Aurora III and first-in-command of his heart.
Yea im really struggling with moving forward in this book .im at that 10% mark right now....
Geezes christ this is a sludge. Does it get better ST?
I absolutely hate the writing.
Wed January 20, 2021 2:48 pm
Simple Torture wrote:Strat wrote:Strat wrote:Simple Torture wrote:Simple Torture wrote:I started this yesterday and read about the first 10% (according to my Kindle--probably about 40 pages). My priors when it comes to Star Wars books is pretty extensive, but also pretty distant in the past--I read about 50 EU novels in middle school or around there, but nothing much since. I remember them being sweeping and filled with drama and action and intrigue. I am, uh, not sure now, 20+ years later, if either my memory is clouded or if this new book just doesn't live up to those standards. Even just this little bit in, I do find the general plot as something that I'd like to follow and find out more about, but I am just not a fan of the writing at all. Bland, repetitive, and unimaginative. But I will probably keep at this on the side while reading other stuff.
This has gotten a bit better (about 1/3 of the way through), but boy oh boy, this is an actual sentence from this published book:“Is that really helpful?” said his copilot, Pikka Adren, second-in-command of the Aurora III and first-in-command of his heart.
Yea im really struggling with moving forward in this book .im at that 10% mark right now....
Geezes christ this is a sludge. Does it get better ST?
I absolutely hate the writing.
I'm almost done, I'll probably finish today. I think there are some parts that are better than others. Once the Jedi stuff gets a bit more explored, you start to see the differences between the Republic/Jedi interplay here and in the Prequels. But there are so many characters and they're all so thin. I don't think the next novel comes out until much later this year, so I could see myself returning (especially if it's by a different author), but this hasn't been a particularly enjoyable book.
Wed January 20, 2021 2:52 pm
Wed January 20, 2021 2:55 pm
Simple Torture wrote:You see, that is sort of scratching an itch for me, the idea that different Jedi conceptualize the Force in different ways. I'm also into some of the nearly-hard-scifi stuff in here, like how hyperspace is still new and dangerous and unpredictable--wish there was more of this. I'd read a Jedi-less book about the first hyperspace explorers and how they figured it out/how it's developed.
Wed January 20, 2021 3:55 pm
Wed January 20, 2021 3:59 pm
dimejinky99 wrote:Think the follow up is out In Just a month? No?
By one of the female authors? Maybe even Claudia gray?
I haven’t been paying attention to any of this sorry
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epilogue wrote:The Sith were defeated long before the High Republic. In TPM they've been dormant for 1000 years and this is like 200 years before TPM.