Chat corner 42: Romance

[annathecrow]

Welcome to this week’s chat corner!

Optional prompt

Are you sick of Valentine’s Day marketing yet? This week’s topic is supposed to come from Legends, so lets talk about “Courtship of Princess Leia“, AKA one of the most memetically bad EU books ever.

I have no idea whether it’s actually bad or not. I’ve also read somewhere that for such a terrible book, it’s the source (or at least inspiration) of a huge amount of current background worldbuilding. (I know Dathomir was mentioned…) Anybody here who has read it and can report?

Comments

[astromech1138]

Maybe I have awful taste but I don't think this is the worst of the EU books :P Sure, Han kidnaps Leia so she doesn't fall in love with SW Fabio, but there are witches riding Rancors! And Luke's out there doing....something. It was interesting to see Force users who weren't Jedi, and the book was fun enough I'd read it again (which I wouldn't say about all the EU books I've read), although yes, it is totally ridiculous and I'm glad I paid $1 for a used copy.

[annathecrow]

hehe, I wondered if there might be someone who'd enjoyed it! Would you recommend it? And which books do you think were worse? *wags eyebrows* (...maybe we ought to take that part to the Dark Side, but I'll leave that choice on you)

[kittywhite]

Check out the kid’s Jedi Prince series for some “so bad it’s good” fun!
I’d love to do a dramatic reading of it if I ever find my copies.

[astromech1138]

"Recommend" might be too strong of a word ;) But if you're set on reading the 90s EU books, it's much better than Planet of Twilight (I STILL remember how bad this one is, 25+ years on, and refuse to reread it), or Darksaber (awful, awful, makes no sense at all, Luke spends half of it sipping comet water with his new girlfriend, who is a ghost in the body of his former student, and then they fight a whole army of tech-savvy wampas--and the darksaber is not the same weapon we know from the current canon), or the Jedi Academy trilogy volumes 2 and 3. I could go on, but maybe that's for the dark side ;)

I love the 90s EU books. They are not very good (with the exception of Zahn and most of Stockpole) but they are fun and campy, and my tolerance level for Star Wars-related nonsense is high.