Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:53 pm
Didn't she also have some crap about the Jedi Council conspiring with Palpatine to prolong the war?
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Yes, I forget which book (use that term with caution around her) it was though.Rochey wrote:Didn't she also have some crap about the Jedi Council conspiring with Palpatine to prolong the war?
As Seafort has mentioned, Dark Lord is excellent. I'd say better than Zhan's work, I haven't read much else since him aside from the KJA works and the AOTC ICS.Tsukiyumi wrote:Garbage. Something told me to stop reading after Zahn's novels, and it looks like I was smart to listen to that voice.
I understand that he's actually good natured about fans of various series he's worked hating him. Dune fans are none to pleased with his work and he had wrote for a Battletech ripoff series that was pretty bad as well.Rochey wrote:As craptastic as KJA's books were, they were at least ten thousand times better than Travis' ones. See, they do have a plot, and it's not just page upon page of Mandowank. Also, he hasn't threatened to tear anyone's throat out, which is a bit of a plus for the guy's mental stability.
Quite right. This particular crap is made of paper, rather than assorted foodstuffs.Yeah, but it's not horse manure...
Careful about the Zahn praise. He's a minimalistic author. Him and Stackpole (sp?) despite being good authors both horrendiously under estimate the armies of Star Wars and both agreed with her numbers.Tsukiyumi wrote:Garbage. Something told me to stop reading after Zahn's novels, and it looks like I was smart to listen to that voice.
Zahn's a good enough author for the minimalism to be overlooked, particularly since a few mental gymnastics can rationalise them. The importance of the Katana Fleet can be explained as the effect of 200 small, weak ships as a concentrated force, when most of the heavies had been recalled to Byss and the Rebellion hadn't got going with full-scale warship construction. The "25,000 star destroyers" quote can be rationalised as only referring to ISD IIs like the Chimaera.Monroe wrote:Careful about the Zahn praise. He's a minimalistic author. Him and Stackpole (sp?) despite being good authors both horrendiously under estimate the armies of Star Wars and both agreed with her numbers.