The Rebel Faction

Wow that's a lot.

I probably have about 5 or 6. (SW encyclopedia, some essential guidebooks etc)

Those were bought as a response to joining the SW RPing community, as I have only ever seen the films.

I still haven't gotten round to reading a single EU novel. I will one day, heh.


Hope everything goes well with the move.

I started with the Jedi Academy Trilogy. My big brother had bought them at a used bookstore just to see what a Star Wars book was like, and told me I might like them. I read more than seventy of them before a combination of the New Jedi Order series and the Swarm War convinced me that the EU had become too retarded to handle. Now, reading Wookieepedia articles about Jacen Solo and the Confederation have only solidified that belief further.

I really should go back and read Jedi Academy again, just to see if it really is as awesome as I remember it being.

I have close to 100 though now I am slowing down a lot. I cant handle the garbage they are writing. From the Legacy of the Force to Fate of the Jedi it just makes me ill

Honestly, Timothy Zahn. The Thrawn Trilogy is equal in story quality to the original movies.

Apart from him, Matthew Stover is also a very good writer that does an excellent job at Star Wars. He wrote the NJO book Traitor, which I have not read but heard excellent things about, and the Clone Wars novel Shatterpoint, which I have read and is just a phenomenal read. I also hear good things about Drew Karpyshyn, author of the Darth Bane books.

I've read several of Stackpole's X-Wing books, and really enjoyed them. My thoughts on him are that he's not the best writer in the world, but hes a damned fine storyteller. I tend to cringe a bit at his dialogue and prose, but he's extremely good at keeping you engaged and turning the pages just to find out what happens next. Also, he's very good at writing dogfights, even if hes so detailed about it that I don't know what the hell is going on without having to draw a map in my head to keep track.

Plus, the X-Wing series is also a great place to start, along with the Thrawn Trilogy, as it details events immediately following the original trilogy, and sheds a lot of light on the downfall of the Empire post-Endor. Stackpole does a really great job at realistically portraying the dissolution of such a vast governmental body, while still maintaining that level of uncertainty as to whether or not this fledgling New Republic will actually last against such a still-potent war machine.