I want to read something dumb and fun...

I want to read something dumb and fun. Are there any actually good Star Wars novels that won’t make me feel five years old while I read them?

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no

no, and that includes the old expanded universe, nerds

Star Wars fucking sucks.

Might as well read Halo series. Suprisingly good lore and nice military action

Try I am legend or Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy

alfred bester for fun, readable, pulpy sci-fi

asimov's foundation series for readable, slighterly "harder" (in the sense of "hard scifi" and not difficult to read) sci-fi

fleming's james bond for fun, readable, pulpy spy-fi

No, and the same goes for 99% of genre fiction. Try reading something that has more complex themes than 'muh good and evil'.

Only in your goddamn dreams that Foundation would be hard sci-fi, ever. Brainlet.

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I actually recommend the episode 3 novel (Matt Stover one) every time this comes up. Check out the samples at starwars.com/news/happy-rancor-revenge-of-the-sith-novelization to see if you like it, it's as melodramatic as a soap opera but in a good way.

Why are you guys so jaded? When is the last time you actually enjoyed reading a book?

There is a distinct difference between reading to expand your mind, and filling your head with useless scifi/fantasy world lore.

>implying star wars is anything close to 'muh good and evil'
jedis are fucked

theres so much better sci-fi than star wars. Foundation for starters. if you actually like star wars you should castrate yourself with a lightsaber

I don't read specifically for expanding my own mind off it, I'd call it more of an aesthetic thing. Reading for a good story, so to speak. (Not that that applies to most Star Wars books, but I can understand asking for good ones out of them, or just for good pulp stories)
I suppose this is a bit off topic, but it's enough to justify asking about this without needing "genre fiction" critiques.

Tarkin

>Reading for a good story
The absolute state of this board.

Stover's stuff is the best of it imo. Even episode 3 was pretty great.

I've heard a lot of good things about the Republic Commando books.

The X-Wing series is about as fun and not insulting to your intelligence as Star Wars can get.
I can upload an epub, if there is interest.

Oh, and don't read foundation, it sucks. It's one of these dusty old sci-fi that have nothing to offer to a modern reader, because there's no art in the prose, the characters are cardboard cut out, the technology is bland and unexplained and the basic ideas can be looked up on wikipedia.

Nah, Karen Traviss is the worst

This. The origins to the spatan program were very enjoyable to read about. I think it was The Fall of Reach