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This Is The Final Countdown!

dviddy

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So, the last book in the Legacy of the Force arc.

 

It's shorter than I expected.

 

But it's good. Not like, Revenge of the Sith novelization good, or NJO: Traitor good, and it didn't have the emotional impact that NJO: Star by Star did, but nonetheless, it's good.

 

And yes, I am a manly man who weeps manly tears at the happenings in a fictional universe (Anakin Solo's death in Star by Star was heart wrenchingly difficult).

 

But this book is fantastic at the emotional manipulations. You know what's going to happen before you open the book. Just as with the fifth novel in the Legacy series (Sacrifice), the cover gives it all away.

 

But how they get there is depressingly, and amazingly upliftingly (I think I made that word up) fantastic.

 

The human drama is so fantastically amazing, that mo matter what form it is delivered, be it novel, film, poetry, photography, video, etc, it never fails to leave an impact.

 

"At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. But at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it."

 

-- C.S. Lewis, from his essay "Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's to Be Said," published in Of Other Worlds, 1966.

 

(Oh, and I cannot get that ridiculous "Final Countdown" song out of my head. Thanks a lot, Europe!)

 

(Europe is a band.)

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Ektris

Having just read Traitor and Star by Star... I probably didn't want to hear that, seeing as I've been looking forward to reading the Legacy of the Force series for a while. :P

 

Still like five more to go in the New Jedi Order series, though. >>

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Varaka

Yeah, I saw it in Borders. It did look kind of short. :o

 

It looks good though, and I would get it if I ever get around to finishing the first book in the series.

 

But if it's almost as good as the ROTS Novelization, then I better get at it. :P

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dviddy
I haven't read many Star Wars books, but I've cried reading various other stories.

 

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But that's okay, right? :unsure:

 

BtB

Of course it is!

 

Having just read Traitor and Star by Star... I probably didn't want to hear that, seeing as I've been looking forward to reading the Legacy of the Force series for a while. :P

 

Still like five more to go in the New Jedi Order series, though. >>

Star by Star was crazy for me. It's probably only me, though. My first Star Wars books came to me in the second grade, they were the Junior Jedi Knights, and they were centered on Anakin Solo and his best friend Tahiri at the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV. Anakin reminded me of me in many ways, and he was a fictional character I had become accustomed to, and the first character I cared about in the SW EU. His death had the biggest impact on me that any fictional character could ever have (and living a life where no one close to me has died, probably the only death to affect me so).

 

This book is close. Before the Swarm War series, I also empathized quite largely with Jacen. He was empathetic, loved to make goofy jokes, and was there for anyone who needed it. He was the person I had grown into. And then he changed, and I didn't identify with him at all. Which was sad. Invincible does a fantastically superb job of reminding you of the old Jacen, and mourn what he once was.

 

....

 

Yep. Too much emotional involvement in a fictional world.

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Dinobot The Maximal

Oh jeeze...last one I read was...Labyrinth of Evil? Does that sound right? Loved it, but reading it and then watching Clone Wars just makes your brain itch really bad.

DtM

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dviddy
What no spoilers?

 

-Omi

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Jaina Solo kills Jacen Solo
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Spoony Bard
What no spoilers?

 

-Omi

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Jaina Solo kills Jacen Solo

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That is too expected. Shoulda been more like a brutal fight where both are put into submission.

 

-Omi

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Laka

I actually saw this at Borders the other day, and I was thinking about picking it up.

 

Is it one of those books that you have to read the entire series, or can you just read the middle/last one and understand it?

 

-K-

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dviddy
I actually saw this at Borders the other day, and I was thinking about picking it up.

 

Is it one of those books that you have to read the entire series, or can you just read the middle/last one and understand it?

 

-K-

You could get by while reading only the first, middle, and end, but really, you'd be missing out. The hardbacks (1, 5, 9) are hardly the high points of this series.

 

And the paperbacks aren't all that expensive. Five dollars each? Or the library... Mine always had quite a bit of fantastic SW novels.

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Laka

Maybe I'll consider reading them over the summer. I didn't realize there were paperbacks, too. That's much better than completely hardcover.

 

-K-

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Flo

I've been out of the Starwars loop for so long, last I recall was the Yuzhan Vong ravaging Corusant.

 

How'd it go from there to here?

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