The Zahn trilogy was an interesting idea at the time, basically to turn Star Wars into airport books, for adults to read the way they would read Tom Clancy or whatever. That was fine to do for 3 books when they were only coming out once a year. But after that they just went nuts cranking this stuff out and it became comical that all this shit kept happening to these people. They're like O.J. in Naked Gun. Looking back, I think the Daley Han Solo books and some of the old marvels had the right idea, to do these smaller, more lighthearted, low-stakes stories.