Tragic Magic wrote:I'm really trying to push myself through Tarkin as I'm 60% in and it's just so dull and pointless. I don't like giving up on books, especially on Kindle as I like to see the 100%.
It's definitely put me off trying any other Star Wars books though. It's really bad. The present bits just aren't that interesting and the bits set in the past are just a dull history lecture. But it's all really boring and full of pointless sci-fi jargon. It doesn't help either that it describes characters primarily as "Race A" and "Race B" as if I'm supposed to just know what all these strawberry floating extended universe races are. It seems really lazy and just ends up with me not knowing who each character is as, unless they're Vader, Tarkin or Sidious, they all merge into one grey blob.
I'll be reading Tarkin after I get done with Lords of the Sith, which I'm just starting into. Already got it bought, so I hope I can get through it. I made it through Catalyst, which was a bit hard going sometimes, so I should be able to do this.
Some Star Wars books are definitely much better than others, though. If you want the best, just buy Timothy Zahn's two new Thrawn books (his only canon ones now), I bet they're awesome.