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2023-04-28, 06:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Let's Read: The Han Solo Adventures (1979)
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2023-04-28, 08:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Let's Read: The Han Solo Adventures (1979)
The climax and ending to Lost Legacy is the part that I really remembered, and I still think it was really well done. I liked the way that the Han/Gallandro rivalry ended, because I think it really keeps Han's character a little more grounded. Plus I just always found Gallandro cool. He's influenced at least two of my TTRPG characters over the years, both in Star Wars and D&D.
Fun fact: Gallandro has a daughter that shows up in the Young Jedi Knights series.
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2023-04-28, 08:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Let's Read: The Han Solo Adventures (1979)
Wait, did we end the book without the obligatory romantic fling? It seemed like Hasti was being set up as The Girl to go along with Han's other conflicts.
NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
Does This Mutation Make Me Look Fat: Heart of the Swarm
My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void
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2023-04-29, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Let's Read: The Han Solo Adventures (1979)
'Fraid so. But she's already made her point of view clear; she's not interested in someone who's here one day and gone the next. She wants a keeper, which Han at this stage isn't. We've had two romantic interests in two other books and they both cleared the stage pretty quickly.
In the Thrawn Trilogy it takes Han several years to mature into a responsible man willing to stay with one partner for life. And in the sequel trilogy, of course, he never did. One more reason I don't especially like the ST.
I've just ordered the lando books and we can start a new thread with them -- probably next week sometime. The due date for the book to arrive is 6 May. New thread around that time.
Respectfully,
Brian P."Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl
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2023-04-30, 05:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Let's Read: The Han Solo Adventures (1979)
Yeah, she did say that but I was still expecting a last-minute reversal because of genre conventions. So its surprising that she stuck to her guns instead of succumbing to his rugged charm against her better judgement, etc.
NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
Does This Mutation Make Me Look Fat: Heart of the Swarm
My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void
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2023-05-01, 10:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Let's Read: The Han Solo Adventures (1979)
Some people think that Chaotic Neutral is the alignment of the insane, but the enlightened know that Chaotic Neutral is the only alignment without illusions of sanity.
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2023-05-06, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Let's Read: The Han Solo Adventures (1979)
I did remember the climax of this one, even all these years later. It's actually a really good one, and I think a good Star Wars story as well.
Star Wars, as pendell mentioned above, owes more than a little to western and adventure films and serials. And we get that here in abundance - a wild-west style showdown, and a lost treasure (that the heroes don't end up with). But the showdown is magnificently subverted in a fitting way, and the reason our heroes don't get "more wealth than they can imagine" is equally fitting (and would work great in an SF-RPG, where the PCs get enough they come out a little on the positive side of the ledger, but not anywhere near the massive haul they were hoping for). It really is well-done on so many levels.
And Daley's writing is so elegant and economical, I wish we had more stuff like this today - too many doorstoppers, and not enough elegant little tales like these.
Thank you for doing these re-reads, pendell!
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2023-05-08, 12:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Let's Read: The Han Solo Adventures (1979)
You're welcome! New thread for Lando Calrissien adventures is available. See you there!
Respectfully,
Brian P."Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid."
-Valery Legasov in Chernobyl