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So after reading all the custom stats on here from teh Darth Bane books I decided to pick up the 1st 1 and it was amazing!!!!
Going to buy the 2nd on Friday and was wondering if anyone had any other recommendations for other stars wars books, I was a little worried at 1st about reading the books out of order or not knowing when they were set etc but at the start of the bane books there's a nifty wee timeline that's been quite useful, not just for the novels
Shaazaam!
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Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn is a great place to start for anyone getting into the books.
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After I read the Darth Bane series, I started to read the Legacy series, (Betrayal, etc.)
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Probably not best to start off with Legacy without reading Thrawn Trilogy, Jedi Academy Trilogy, and NJO at the very least.
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I read the first Bane book and it was really good, I'm looking forward to the second....there is a third as well but it is still in HC only
I recently read Order 66 as I thought the book would be about the elimination of the Jedi but it actually happens at the end of the book...that was the only disappointment though, other than that it was really good with some excellent insight into the Mandalorians and raising of the clones....currently reading Dark Lord, and it is fantastic through the first 250 pages, the author captures the essence of Anakin as Darth Vader...it is amazing, I can hear Anakin as I read some parts :)
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Having the most recent chronology book I was able to skip the NJO among other books,but I still read the Thrawn trio. Then I read the wookiepedia which allowed me to skip legacy,so I started on fate of the Jedi, but sadly I skipped buying one book but I did read it.
As for Darth Bane I just need to pick up the last one.
I chose to skip reading the RC series due to not liking her writing style.
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read I, jedi it is amazing
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I was espacially fond of the Coruscant Knights series, great books, and the seconds in the series explains what ever happens to two of the more famous supporting characters of the Clone Wars
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Thrawn Trilogy is the best place to start, and Outbound Flight is a good prequel-era follow-up. At least read RC: Hard Contact to see if Karen Traviss is for you. Pick up Tales from Mos Eisley and Tales from Jabbas Palace, too. Lots of great short stories there.
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Wow! thanks for all the feed back, I won the thrawn trilogy when they came out but I gave them away as I was into other things at the time, kinda wished I'd kept them now. I was actually going to buy order 66 and thought it would be all about jedi getting slaughtered but glad some one pionted out that it wasn't, I think I would have been a little dissapionted. I think I'm going to get I jedi and some of the earlier ones, can't train so have alot of free time right now while recovering from surgery so I'm going to dive straight into them. My local comic book shop had a black friday sale were all back issues were $1 so I got as many tales of the jedi I could  Also I was playing mass effect 2 last night and in the game you can purchase books by the guy who wrote the darth bane books! little bit of random piontless trivia
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Order 66 sort of is about all the Jedi getting slaughtered...but just from the point of view of the Commandos and some Mandalorians. ;) Still though, if you're interested in that, you should definitely pick up RC: Hard Contact first and see if you like it. Karen Traviss' style is different than many other Star Wars authors. I absolutely love it (and pretty much anything else she's written), but that's not everybody's take on it.
I definitely second the opinion on reading the Thrawn Trilogy though. It's one that EVERY Star Wars fan should read at some point, simply because it really was the sort of starting point for all SW EU. After that, I always advise people to read things in the order they were published, not necessarily in chronological order according to the stories. Either way should work though.
Some other favorites of mine:
Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
Labyrinth of Evil
Children of the Jedi and Darksaber (Planet of Twilight is the 3rd in this 'trilogy' but it mostly sucks, haha)
Cestus Deception and Shatterpoint (if you like CW era stuff)
Spectre of the Past and Vision of the Future (but only AFTER you've read the first Thrawn trilogy!)
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Definitely read the Thrawn trilogy - the first book is one of the few books that I read that I was so hooked after Chapter 1 that I couldn't put it down (read the whole trilogy in under a week because of it).
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which ones cover mandalorians
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obsidian7788 wrote:which ones cover mandalorians The Legacy of the Force books include a lot about the Mandalorians, as do the Republic Commando novels. Those are really the ones that kickstarted the newest wave/fanfare in Mando culture. There's also the old Bounty Hunter Wars series by K. W. Jeter. That one is mostly about Boba Fett and Dengar though, but it's still a good series.
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Thrawn Trilogy is Awesome. Karin Travis's Republic Commando Novel were great Mando Novels!
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