C3PX said:
Anchorhead said:sound like books I might need to look into. If they steer clear of the revised miniature Star Wars universe where everyone is related to each other, they would be something I’m definitely interested in.
Tales of the Jedi (it is a comic book series, not any actual novels as far as I know) have a radio drama adaption for the first few parts of the series, as do a few selected stories from Tales from Mos Eisely (which is a novel). If you live in a city with a halfway decent public library, they might have them, and if not, should be able to aquire them for you through interlibrary loan.
As for the Star Wars: Tales of... books, a lot of it really is crap, but for the most part it is unrelated to the main story and characters of the films. Each one graps a handful of background characters and makes them the main character of their own random sci-fi story taking place in the SW universe. If you are into sci-fi books in general, you might enjoy these. The nice thing about them is they are collections of short stories, so if you find you are not enjoying one story at all, you can skip over to the next one without missing anything.
This is why these are the best EU books I have read. They truely do expand on the universe, and aren't creatively castrated by being tied to some hack-job chronology, etc. I like the individual author styles, which are often much different from what one might expect from a SW novel, whether they are uncharacteristically realistic or totally out there. I'll admit I haven't read that much EU, but I enjoyed the Tales Of stories a lot. Even though people make fun of stuff like IG-88 being the Death Star brain--I like it. It's Twilight Zone for Star Wars sometimes. Or would you rather have Chewbacca killed by a moon colliding with him? Honestly, what stoner thought up that one? "Duuude...what if Chewie gets hit by a moon?? Woah, far out!"