skyjedi2005 said:
I'm probably the only one who enjoyed the More lighthearted bantam books years and the old del rey years than the new del rey which started with vector prime in 1999.

Yes we had superweapons of the week and cheesy comic book plots but it was fun while it lasted, before star wars went all dark and edgy and post modern thanks to the emo prequels.

And before the EU had to be comepletely rewritten backwards and forwards to fit the prequel universe.

Every book now written has to reference those prequel movies and is uncescapable.

Especially when they do a bad retread as the they did with the legacy of the force novels.

They lost me when they killed Mara Jade that was the last straw as far as i'm concerned other than ruining the character of Jacen Solo and making him a carbon copy of Hayden Vader.

I agree. I really cannot get into any new SW fiction (Shatterpoint is the only exception). Mara's death was pretty much the final straw for me-along with Jacen pulling a prequel Anakin. General rule of thumb: only read SW fiction pre-1999.