Most of us wish to start fresh, ignoring virtually the PT and EU sources. Only EU books I've read in the past...many many years...were the Bane series and they were a gift. It sounds like this Plagueis novel was quite enjoyable for you. How would you see it providing much fodder for Episodes I-III, since it's a prequel to the prequels? Maybe it was a more interesting story to tell?

The Plagueis novel may be a prequel to the prequels, but it contains a great deal of interesting events that play out over the course of "TPM", since Darth Plagueis is alive well into that film and dies right around the time Darth Maul is killed.

Do you feel that the novel provides a more interesting and relevant backstory to Episodes IV-VI?

It certainly provides a more interesting and relevant back story for "TPM", as well as the clone army conspiracy from "AOTC". It also adds a lot more substance to Palpatine's story about Darth Plagueis the Wise in "ROTS".

McFlabbergasty said:

The same way I was re-writing the prequels already: ignore everything except for the OT.

No offense, but I tuned out at "I very much enjoy the prequels".

I wasn't aware that this forum is dedicated mainly to rewrites that involve tearing everything in the prequels down and starting from scratch.

Surely there must be a few people on this forum who can find at least something redeeming about the prequels? I don't love them, but at the very least I feel they boast a lot of good to great albeit poorly executed ideas.