Originally posted by: daveytod
as a huge EU fan with nearly every piece of literature ever published I can honestly say you couldn't have chosen a worse book to start on sorry

I'm reading it for a different reason than you probably read EU books. I have absolutely no interest in becoming an EU follower. I'm more interested in the historical aspect of this particular book. It was commissioned by Lucas as the sequel to Star Wars. Since it was written while Star Wars was still happening, it's from the Star Wars point of view - no one is related, Vader is just a bad person in the hierarchy of the empire - not some special Sith entity, etc.

On the grand scale of all that the EU has become, this book isn't even a blip on the radar. Which is exactly why I'm interested in it.