I haven't read any of these for well over 20 years but:
I still remember liking those Michael Stackpole ones. (His X-Wing, the Jedi Acadmy, I, Jedi. All of them.) ;-p
The one that's making me laugh the most is that the first one I read was The Truce at Bakura and I DO NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THAT. I just remember it being really fun, like actual SW in book form, and after that I read any I could find. I think your copy was clearly fake and not the real book, which was obv. what I read. Whatever that actually was, since I recall no details. :lol:
I do remember finding The Courtship of Princess Leia frustrating and very disappointing, so apparently past me had some taste or something somewhere. \o/ And I felt much the same as you about the short story collections too, especially Tales from the Cantina. Look, we converge here for a moment!
But, then, as long as it was reasonably entertaining, I never asked or expected anything more from SW and, tbf, actual 90s SF and fantasy was frequently so much worse than anything SW tie-in novels threw at you. (Like, I gave up reading SFF because of how bad it was and how I could so rarely find anything that didn't tell me, a soft, unscientific female, to go away. At least once actually straight up. So, I suppose I had lower expectations to start with!)
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Date: 2020-07-16 08:34 am (UTC)I still remember liking those Michael Stackpole ones. (His X-Wing, the Jedi Acadmy, I, Jedi. All of them.) ;-p
The one that's making me laugh the most is that the first one I read was The Truce at Bakura and I DO NOT REMEMBER ANY OF THAT. I just remember it being really fun, like actual SW in book form, and after that I read any I could find. I think your copy was clearly fake and not the real book, which was obv. what I read. Whatever that actually was, since I recall no details. :lol:
I do remember finding The Courtship of Princess Leia frustrating and very disappointing, so apparently past me had some taste or something somewhere. \o/ And I felt much the same as you about the short story collections too, especially Tales from the Cantina. Look, we converge here for a moment!
But, then, as long as it was reasonably entertaining, I never asked or expected anything more from SW and, tbf, actual 90s SF and fantasy was frequently so much worse than anything SW tie-in novels threw at you. (Like, I gave up reading SFF because of how bad it was and how I could so rarely find anything that didn't tell me, a soft, unscientific female, to go away. At least once actually straight up. So, I suppose I had lower expectations to start with!)
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(The GFFA is a good place to go to.)