Josh’s Comments (group member since Jun 08, 2013)

Josh’s comments from the The Expanded Universe group.

I joined this group as it died out sadly. Got into the old EU a few months before Disney turned it into Legends and created the new Canon.

I’ve only read the first 10 books in chronological order in Legends and loved all of them. Especially the Rogue Squadron books. I was devastated when they threw the books out and stopped reading them at the time. And waited for the new canon to come out. I can say out of the books I’ve read from canon a lot of them have been meh. Some of them have been really good.

I went back to the old canon this year and continued where I left off. With Rise of Skywalker out, it made me want to see how Legends ended up. So I went to my local used book store and started collecting the Legends books. Read so far only one this year but I plan to read more than just the one in Legends.

I gotta say I am looking forward to reading the High Republic era of canon. I just wished that the canon books followed the main characters like the Legends books did.

Okay, I read the 4 Rogue Squadron novels by Michael A. Stackpole, and loved all four of them. Like you guys might had remembered, I was iffy about them at first. Now I am reading the Wraith Squadron trilogy by Aaron Allston. I finished the first one Wraith Squadron, and thought it was just okay. I didn't much care for the characters nor the plot. The plot felt like it was too jumpy. Anyone else felt like this about them?

I am reading Iron Fist right now. About the first 50 pages into it.

I finished Rogue Squadron. It was surprising better than I thought it would be. I love Corran and Mirax (Hopefully I spelled the names right.). They are probably my favorite characters. I enjoyed reading the dog fights also which really surprised me since I wasn't a fan of them in the movies or video games. I started Wedge's Gamble and loving it so far.

That does give me a lot more hope. I do enjoy it so far. I'm on page 42.

Like Alli, I also have those worries. I haven't started it yet but I will once I get off the computer. My other worry is that I won't like the series because I was never really into the dog fights. But hopefully I will like it.

I just finished reading The Truce at Bakura. I thought it was great. It was my first Star Wars book I read. I am skipping the X-Wing series for now since I don't own very many and I am also skipping Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor since I don't have it either.

I am currently reading The Courtship of Princess Leia.

EDIT: So within the first paragraph of The Courtship of Princess Leia referencing the X-Wing series. I am going to go a head and read Rogue Squadron and the second one. Hopefully I can get the other 5 that's set before Courtship.