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"that is why you fail"
"do or do not, there is no try"
"there is no conflict, only resolve"
"I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it further"
etc
I've always been partial to "Who's the bigger fool?"
does he still update gabeart?
that is hilarious
I liked the Thrawn trilogy, and the Tales books. There's a few more that I like with some backstory for Han and Lando. I haven't read the Jedi Order or most other EU books.
Though I do have a book that was written...at least before Jedi came out, maybe before Empire. It REALLY plays up the Luke-Leia love connection, and is extremely creepy. It's also terrible, and I couldn't finish it.
I did love the old Star Wars card game though, the one from decipher.
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Someone needs to do the whole awkward Luke-Leia love in a good book. That would be really awesome, I'm tired of it being glossed over or exploited by hacks.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye?
Yeah. Kinda creepy.
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
most of the rest was crap.
and Stackpole should be taken out and shot, he is seriously the worst fucking writer ever.
EVER.
biggest and most obvious case of mary sue i've ever seen in a book. holy shit could corran horn be better at more things?
This is a movement I can get behind.
i hope there is a special circle of hell for shitty authors who get reams of books published. the only positive is it makes me realize that maybe i have a real chance if this is the kind of shit that's getting out there.
http://www.rpgstudies.net/stackpole/pulling_report.html
okay in the technical sense he is a decent writer. his use of the language is by no means terrible.
however his characters suck nineteen kinds of horse balls.
That's not a bad article, though.
What is a mary sue good sir?
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!
mary sue is when you take a character who is more than likely supposed to be a representation of yourself.
and then you make them godly. basically, they are attractive, good with whatever sex they prefer, and they have skills that set them apart from the average person. the formula is not always 100%, so sometimes you'll get ugly mary sues or less physically capable. but this is always presented as a challenge they have overcome as opposed to an actual handicap.
In the case of Michael Stackpole, his Mary Sue was the Corran Horn character. He was a fantastic pilot, attractive to the ladies (the most 'attractive' woman in Rogue Squadron, plus the also attractive daughter of his father's greatest rival both found him irresistible), and surprise surprise, a Jedi. He was never outsmarted, and of course if any situation could set him apart from the other characters as 'just a little better', it would. This was already awful in the X-Wing books, and it really detracted from what could have been just an enjoyable pulp Star Wars story. But it got even worse.
Later, Stackpole wrote a first-person narrative called 'I, Jedi' which was about Corran Horn joining the Jedi order. Of course, he had to be one of the first students, so he inserted himself into every important scene that occurred in Kevin J Anderson's Jedi Academy trilogy, even when it didn't make sense. Corran was, once again, friends with everyone, and even Luke found himself being corrected by Corran Horn. Basically the entire book you wanted to light your copy on fire and then throw it at Stackpole.
That is an example of what a Mary Sue is. Advice to all aspiring novelists; this is the most retarded shit you can ever pull in a book. Do not insert yourself or some fucking representation of yourself into your books, because if you do not only will I hate your works, but so will everyone who can think.
Oh god, I thought I was he only one that didn't like him!
your = belonging to you
their = belonging to them
there = not here
they're = they are
there are very few star wars EU authors who i have any respect for.
timothy zahn is one, and that's because even if you took the star wars aspects out of his books, they would still be very entertaining sci-fi novels. they are very tightly written, and there's not a lot of bullshit in them.
aaron allston is the other. he understands that he is writing star wars, not high fiction, and treats it accordingly. even so he still manages to create good, believable characters that are not perfect. his one character with force sensitivity never managed to use it beyond 'kind of sort of sensing things'. plus he has a good sense of humour in most of his scenes, and when the scene requires it he can drop the humour.
basically those are the two authors whose EU books i am not ashamed to have read. i hear there are some good books in the new jedi order, but i stopped reading around when those got popular.
Eveyone who's ever read any decent literature hates Michael Stackpole. There are dozens of us.
"Sir, I regret to report only partial success with the personal cloaking device."
I hate that book so much.
I don't recall that one...Where/by whom is that said?
This I understand and hate.
I tried reading the timothy zahn novels years ago when I was 12 I kept zoning out and it took me alot longer to read than other shit and I think I just stopped about 2/3rds of the way through. And I tried the Knights of the Old Republic comic which had a good intial story arc but then turned a bit too crap and I just got tired of reading legacy.
Satans..... hints..... I'm a mo bro!