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Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1846

The Coruscant Nights have some attempts at noir archetypes and plot structuring. The second book involves the former Jedi helping the only straight cop on Coruscant investigate a murder and has a femme fatale. The backstory that was quickly dropped of Jax Pavan going from Jedi to crime lord enforcer is noirish. The whole series had a Maltese Falcon-like MacGuffin in the bota as well.

I wasn't accusing anyone in particular of selection bias but I think it's a trap everyone falls into, including myself. I guess the best way I can put it is that the type of fan that I am is dissatisfied with the literary Expanded Universe, and I am predisposed into thinking that fans like myself are what made it into what it is. That's definitely making myself out to be self-important, but I am speculating that the prequels brought a lot of fans over that read books because of the prequels, but without the prequels ceased to read them. Especially since TCW has curtailed any further prequel exploration in the novels.

Edit: I think my cousin was upset that the ending to the final book was ambiguous, but then Karpyshyn came out and said what happened. He preferred it as ambiguous.
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Knight Joined: 08 Apr 2011 Posts: 306

For what it's worth, here's some info for those who are worried that the sales of the novels might not be good enough for people to want the license. I had to go to several stores to get a copy of Conviction for it was sold out in every store. Many of the employees I talked to were surprised they sold out so quickly for they ordered a decent amount.

Master Joined: 21 Mar 2010 Posts: 816 Location: Maryland

Master Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Posts: 1846

I enjoyed Coruscant Nights as well, and I'm looking forward to the fourth. I think the first one was pretty well liked by everyone, but a lot of people viewed the second and third as a drop off in quality. If anything, I'd say the third was guilty of that, but it's my understanding that Reaves was ill when he wrote it. It's underwhelming as a conclusion to a trilogy, which may be why they're doing a fourth.

I thought the first and second were great. Looking at the cover of the first one, I just noticed that Jax is leaning against a brick wall. I didn't realize they still used those in Star Wars haha.
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"Trust not the words of a poet, as he is born to seduce. Yet for poetry to seize the heart, it must ring with the chimes of truth.”

“The world is understood through metaphors. Language is a metaphor-system. Mathematics is a metaphor-system. All real-world schools of magic and religion revolve around the understanding of vast metaphor-systems, symbols as they relate to concepts."

"See, the thing is, everything everyone tells you is a lie. The truth is always bigger than the words we use to describe it."

The whole book felt very un-Star Wars, cover included. Wink

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I don't think Coruscant Nights are bad books, they just failed to engage me. Confused

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