If you consider yourself a Star Wars fan, nerd, enthusiast, or any other word, you're about to meet your match and be totally stumped. For I know TONS of things about Star Wars that NONE of you probably know. HA! I win the nerd contest.
So I've started reading again, with a passion. I used to read ALL the time as a kid. I probably read every single Hardy Boys book 4 times (that's gotta be somewhere around 120 books read) and I actually enjoy reading Shakespeare. Yes, I am a nerd. I am also an avid reader of Star Wars books. Now before you laugh it off listen up, there are HUNDREDS of Star Wars books. People don't seem to realize this. I have an entire series based on Obi-Wan Kenobi before/during his apprenticeship under Qui-Gon Jinn, and another entire series of Anakin Skywalker training as a wee lad under Obi-Wan. Also, did you know that after the last movie Luke Skywalker rebuilt the old massive Jedi Temple on the forest planet Yavin 4? He trains a whole new generation of Jedi, and in one book he ends up going Dark Side himself for awhile. There is a series based solely on the adventures of Boba Fett from the moment Jango dies in Episode 2 to 20 years after the last Star Wars movie (that's right, he's alive). There's also books telling how Han Solo and Princess Leah get married and have twins named Jason and Jaina. These twins grow as Jedi (another whole series) and end up being instrumental in a massive war against an entirely new species of alien that invades the galaxy. A species that doesn't register in the Force, so nobody can sense them coming in the Force. It. Is. Epic, how many books and adventures in the Star Wars galaxy there are. Did you know when Han Solo says "it's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs" in Episode 4, he makes himself look like an idiot? There is no such thing as the Kessel run, it's some silly prank some smugglers pulled on him once long long ago.
Fun fact, Han Solo was an Imperial pilot before becoming a smuggler. He saves Chewbacca from an Imperial prison and that's how they end up together.
So do yourself a favor, go read some Star Wars books or something. There are also like 20 Indiana Jones books and a handful of Halo books as well!
Aside from Star Wars, the book by Timothy Zahn "Manta's Gift" is honestly the best sci fi book I've ever read. Hands down. It's basically the story of Avatar but without stupid wannabe-Indian blue people. It's the original story, told in a completely different way. Basically a species of manta ray-type aliens is discovered on Jupiter. They "swim" through the atmospheric winds and are basically animals, but intelligent ones. A man's consciousness is put into an alien baby in the womb, and he's born into one of the most interesting alien cultures I've ever read about. GO GET IT.
Anyways, now that I've proven I know much much more about Star Wars than most people... anywhere... I'm going to bed.
P.S. the Emperor isn't really dead.
J R Williams
Of course the Emperor isn't dead, he was looking for a job not too long ago. Those Star Wars books sound interesting. I tried to read some of the Halo books, but I just couldn't get into them.
ReplyDeletewell you see when Luke goes Dark Side about 20 years after the final movie, it's because he succumbs to the Emperor. Well technically he DID die, but he had a complex full of clones on a hidden planet, so there are technically like 50 of him in his 20's for everytime he dies, and Luke learns the Dark Side then uses it to finally kill him in the end and save the day...again
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