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Post by I Five on Aug 1, 2006 9:25:17 GMT -5
The Chiss are on our list tonight!!!
Jedi time: 8pm CST
Jedi Temple meeting thread: here!
It's time for our first meeting ;D. I'll meet everyone here tonight and we can discuss Outbound Flight...it was really good...more plot twists and turns then a snake!
One new thing I thought of...I'd like everyone to rate each book we read on a scale of 1 thru 10 (1=waste of my time, 10= one of the best books you've ever read). Post tonight what you'd give Outbound...then we'll come up with an average for each book! You can use 1/2's also (like 6.5 or 9.5), but nothing smaller then 1/2's please.
Can't wait ;D
Jenny
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Post by Jan-Qui Coran on Aug 1, 2006 19:59:15 GMT -5
After having read Survivors Quest it was nice to go back to read Outbound Flight & learn about it. Though I wasn't too fond of the Jedi Master Jorus C'baoth & felt a bit sorry for his padawan Lorana.
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Post by I Five on Aug 1, 2006 19:59:50 GMT -5
Good evening!
So...on a 1-10...what did you all think? I went with a 9...it grabbed me and sucked me in! Trying to figure out the motives behind Thrawn's actions....wow! Can Zahn wrtie or what!
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Post by I Five on Aug 1, 2006 20:01:28 GMT -5
Im with you Jan...I felt so bad for Lorana, she was a good Jedi, but had a psycho Master! I thought C'Boaths' clone was crazy in the Thrawn trilogy....but it wasn't the clone...it was C'Boath that was crazy!
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Post by Jan-Qui Coran on Aug 1, 2006 20:01:37 GMT -5
I'm going to give the book a 7 because it was a bit hard to get into, but it was good to see the background of Thrawn & how he learned basic
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Post by I Five on Aug 1, 2006 20:04:10 GMT -5
Did you think Obi-wan and Anakin were necessary in the story? I thought they were kinds 'thrown in' to get people some characters from the movie...
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Post by I Five on Aug 1, 2006 20:05:16 GMT -5
Oh...I'm bad at typing...many errors always...sorry
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Post by Jan-Qui Coran on Aug 1, 2006 20:09:55 GMT -5
Actually it was interesting to see how Obi-Wan & Anakin got kind of mixed up into all of OBF & how devious or conniving Palpatine was in wanting to get rid of Jedi but yet save Anakin for his future plans without anybody knowing what he was doing.
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Post by I Five on Aug 1, 2006 20:15:38 GMT -5
I agree they were worked into the story nicely. But I just felt that it would have been the same story if you eliminated them from it, so their presence didn't shape the story in any way. It was interesting how Anakin was so taken with C'Boath...and how C'boath was so powerful and overwhelming...everyone bowed to him basically....nobody challenged him! It was cool to see how Palpy manipulated things to get Anakin off...
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Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Aug 1, 2006 20:16:36 GMT -5
Sorry I'm late. give it about a 7. A lot of politics did not need to be involved in this book. I think it should have been more about the flight itself than the politics. The whole book was kind of anti-climatic after reading "Survivor's Quest" and all the Thrawn books
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Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Aug 1, 2006 20:17:56 GMT -5
Yea the whole Ani/Obi plot was unnecessary. They were just thrown in to give face characters for those who may hot have read SQ or any other Thrawn book. They too were unneccessary
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Post by I Five on Aug 1, 2006 20:17:59 GMT -5
I've never read Survivors Quest...I'll have to put it on my list! Glad you could make it Cor!
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Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Aug 1, 2006 20:19:58 GMT -5
SQ was a MUCH better book IMHO
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Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Aug 1, 2006 20:21:22 GMT -5
C'Boath was an interesting character. Imagine him as Anakin's Master... ::shudder::
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Post by I Five on Aug 1, 2006 20:22:22 GMT -5
This book really made me love Thrawn as a character. I'd only read the first two of the Thrawn Trilogy before reading this....and then When I really started to LIKE him as a good guy from OBF...then he gets killed in the Last Command!
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