S5 EP12:Favorite Star Wars Books

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You're here, we're talking Star Wars. It's going to be great. It might be a little bit controversial, so we're talking about very Star Wars books, but it was hard. We'll get into it as we go, but I threw it out about two hours ago.

I guess I got to pick my top five, because it's not easy. As I mentioned, I've been driving to my storage unit all day, bring stuff down, and all the time I've been thinking about which books are going to be in this list. I think I finally narrowed it down, and spoiler alert, it's going to be high republic heavy. Let's not start right now, but it was funny last week we were talking about Shadow of the Sith, and I mentioned three times, I can't rank Star Wars bookies, sometimes I just can't.

As soon as we finished recording, the first words out of your mouth were, oh, you know what we should do next week? Let's rank Star Wars books. I'm like, okay, let's do it. Oh no, what am I agreed to?

So thank you for that. Yes. I just realized, and this is going to be hilarious. I totally forgot about Shadow of the Sith.

So I'm rearranging. Oh my. I'm very tired of Star Wars. Okay, who did you think?

You might forget a couple of books, but who did you think? So another funny thing. This is very shameless to wear my own podcast shirt. It was literally the only Star Wars shirt left in the closet, because I looked like a couple of work shirts and things to take later.

And when I got here, I was like, oh, Star Wars shirt, and when I checked it out, I hear it was so check my teapolic. Oh yeah, it's sweet. I'll tell you that last week, go check it out. There's good stuff back there.

And I almost, when I agreed to it, then I think it was Sunday of last week, and I had to think, oh, I think I'm really going to Star Wars book episode. Way back when I went through all my previous episodes, and about a month and a half ago, a month and a half ago, we had an episode with our friend Andrew from Out of the Ring Reads where we talked about Star Wars canon books. And all the way at the end, we tried to talk about our favorite books. And that's when my connection went out for the first time, Andrew had to take over.

Oh, I remember this. I remember this. We chopped a lot. It was going to be top five and top three, and we kind of rambled through a bunch of stuff.

But watching that and then thinking about this list, it's going to be very different from what I said a year ago. It's funny. Almost like watching Star Wars movies. Sometimes we rank them and that's forever.

It's never going to change. And when you see them through a different point of view, your ranking changes, I think with books is kind of the same, even though we don't at least myself don't revisit them that often. But it's changed, especially because we've done so many new books out there. Yeah.

My number one has changed a ton of times. I finally settled on one, and it's weird because it's never been my number one. But last night I was very hard thinking about it. I was like, I think this is it.

So it's going to be interesting. Yeah, the only spoiler I'll give. I won't say if people follow me or they watch that episode. My number one from a year and a half ago that I said on that episode, this book will never change.

It might not be even in my top five anymore. So it does happen. All right. And with that said, I'm before you said your number.

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It's great. I used to do mine in the same chair. No, one of my kids chairs that we bought from Ikea. So I'm probably just from my neck.

I had like two books this thick. Each one that will sit on top just to get a little bit of height. I'm probably about 20 minutes into my body, killing me. My everything's like, man.

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And she sent us her top five books or at least our top. We'll get to those at the end. Okay. Awesome.

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Always always all that you can find in the description below. All right. All right. We're here to talk Star Wars books.

And we got to start just a few questions before we go into our list. For yourself, either what makes a good Star Wars book or what do you look forward to when trying to decide which book you're going to have? I pick out the week. There's a lot.

So we don't expect everyone to read everything that comes out. So what do you look forward when you're trying to pick out a Star Wars book? That's a good question. I think I just go with overall feeling.

How did I feel when I ended the book? Did it change any point of view on anything I had before? So there they are. So, yeah, I don't really put too much.

I like make my list and think about it. Does it make sense? Yeah, sure. Okay.

So maybe that's why my list changed so much. This is the same approach I take to ranking movies also. So I think it's an overall feeling. I don't really have a logic to it.

Oh, this one has X amount of lights here to find. So it has to be there. There's not really a logic to it. Yeah, it's difficult.

Again, there's so many Star Wars books coming out right now that if you're someone that likes all that Jedi, sit for stuff like we do, there's a bunch out there. If you like the more of the rebellion against the Empire stuff, it's also their clone boy stuff with brother who, but one kind of going back to all we want from his beginnings. No, I don't have a father one yet. Sorry guys.

I know she threw down me a little bit last week. You gotta get a father one. This morning I realized I never pre-ordered it. So I just bought it.

Okay. I got a week or so. Yeah, again, so many. I just got a couple of.

Yeah, plus shallow deceive. I know. I know. I know.

I know. So I'll really eventually probably. But I even told you like when Hyrule public is coming out, that's the only thing I need because it's just way too hard to keep up. Yeah.

I wish I could. Yeah. Someone just started mowing their lawns. I'm sorry that starts going through that.

I can't hear anything. All right. I just hear it. Anyway, so I don't know.

I for me right now because there's so many stuff out there is what just puts my attention from really neither the description of it or I try not to read Xers right now. But if the description of the book hooks me up, then okay, I'm there. Like shallow, they see the description of it. That's enough.

I'm like, right there. I gotta read that. Brotherhood that talked about Obi War and Plasanaki and as a adventurous and the basic some catonimolia. Oh, yeah.

That sounds cool. Let me get it. I don't know. Let's go to when Obi War and was a father one and he has all these different adventures.

He's nothing like to why with why going like, all right. I don't know. We had Massona Francis. I know this is even before that.

So that one. That's why I didn't get any time. So kind of depends. So we'll see.

Did you read any of the I find the universe books before jumping to I have never read any book and I really want to. Is there one that kind of I got a read this at some point? There's a couple. So the the Kenobi book.

I always wanted to read. I remember going to parts of novels and states and seeing I was like, Oh, I got it. And I actually own it. So I'm getting the essential collections.

Because I know at one point I'm gonna start reading them. I want to read the excellent books. They seem interesting. And the Darth Bane books also.

Okay. Yeah, I've said before I've never really dug into trying the universe when it was a big thing. When there was no movies, no TV shows or anything. So I was supposed to was the only thing kind of keeping the brand alive at that point on the video games.

But I never got into them. The first Star Wars book that I read, I think it was a Clone Wars novelization, which is now kind of legends. And I love that book. Kind of obviously a great job.

I prefer that book 20,000 times better. And he's at the school. I prefer that book a lot more than the actual movie, which is my least favorite, the Anime Clone Wars movie. But I love the Clone Wars book.

Then I also read Dark Troopers, which kind of some of these out there, which really fun. Doesn't feel like Star Wars. I could read. But then I really didn't get into a bunch of them.

And then when the new canon started, then that's when I said, Okay, now I have a fresh start. I can start from here and kind of go. And that's where my love for Star Wars books kind of took off. Do you remember your first Star Wars book?

Yes, I do. I was actually going to ask you, my first Star Wars book was Star Wars, Love Line by Coloreda. Love Line was my first canon book because a lot of people spoke great about that book. I got to give you a chance like my stations were extremely high and I really love that book.

But I think I got to go and read it again. It's been so long. I got to go back. I have actually a funny story.

So last year I was the first movie I ever reviewed in the first episode we did in my podcast. And not this podcast, the other podcast. So it was the first one. And I remember doing that review.

I told my friend like, Oh, I'm a big Star Wars fan, but I'm never going to get into books or comics. And I remember I was after my first viewing then I rewatched the message. I was still wasn't really sure how it was sitting with me. And after my second watch, I was like, Okay, I'm into this and I'm going to start reading everything.

So like after a week or so I said that I bought the line and started reading comics. So yeah. So again, my first one was a Clone Wars novelization and then Cannon Book. I'm pretty sure it was bloodline.

The first one that I read. Oh, yeah, great man. It's a great one to start with. So something I can stop a lot when talking about Star Wars book, we mentioned already how many they are out there.

People that haven't got into Star Wars book really a little bit daunting to jump into Star Wars book. And the question is, where do I start? If someone comes to you and maybe they have. And hey, I want to start reading Star Wars book.

I don't know where to start. Is there a book that you recommend? Hey, whatever you think about Star Wars go with this one. So if it's just a standalone, I'll ask the person, like, are your tastes in Star Wars?

What do you like the most about Star Wars? And depending, so right now I go to it's just Star High Republic. We light it to Jedi. It's a very recent book, very easy to jump into it.

Like just go for it. So that's like my go to. If not, if they're like, I don't want to start the new era, then I'll recommend something like the disciple or maybe like bloodline. So bloodline's usually the one I recommend the most.

Yeah, most people go with a lot of stars. That's the one that a lot of people out there. It kind of has a familial feel dealing with all the other reality about a bunch of brand new characters. You know what other books I recommend a lot?

I also recommend Rebel Rising and Catalyst because is that kind of where I was at? That's Enthys. Sorry. You said Rebel Rising, I gotta bring Enthys there.

Okay, so I Rebel Rising and Catalyst because Rogue One is not my favorite Star Wars, well we're not even close. But I love those two books. And I know a lot of people love Rogue One, so I'm like, that's just, that's just going to be right up your alley. Yeah, love both of those books.

And I kind of agree a little bit with, I just start fresh with the High Republic. You don't need to know anything about anything. You're with High Republic. That's a good way to start.

And so, I'm sorry. I just want to ask you, do you think they've done a good job to have different jumping on points? Because I think there's this misconception because I think people remember the Legends Day is how some series started to get a little bit longer and it was hard to like jump into book six on series. But I think they've done a good job to making it very individual so that you can just pick up a random book.

But I've had people tell me like, wait, how am I going to jump into Tarkin if, you know, we have the Republic days before, which books do I need to read before I get to that? I'll just grab that book and read it. I think some authors do a lot better than others. Daniel also there, for example, does a great job catching you up.

Me and Horizon does a great job to catch up everything that happened before. So he's a great one. So if you just say Me and Horizon, which is one of the best books out there, does a good job to at least give you the feel of what's going on. Every public, I think is getting to that point that's so expensive.

I guess it's good that we're going back 200 years or whatever. So it's fresh again for everyone. But it got to a point that it might be a little bit too much for people to jump into. If you just jump into the fallen star, I don't know.

You have an idea of what you're not connecting characters. So I always tell people you don't have to read anything, but make sure you read if you're going to start with the adult books. Read all of them. Don't jump into a random book.

Well, at least read Light of the Jedi and then go to something else, even if you don't read the writing store. Because I think every book is going to mention the great disaster. At least you have an idea. If there's a mention of the value of fair, then you can make your own kind of, okay, there was something else that happened off screen basically.

So at least not the Jedi and then you can jump to some of the others. But yeah, a lot of people say, hey, just go with adult books. You just want the main story. Alright, so we got to do it.

We've been pushing it all, but we have to start. So we got to go with honorable mentions for it. So I got like 12 honorable mentions. I got no, I probably wrote all my books as an honorable mention.

If you didn't make it up five, but I have five, I think, that I guess I was going to focus on home. And I look at that list and that's a top five right there. So let's give me yours first. And if you want to talk a little bit about them, that's fine.

And then I'll do mine before we jump into a top five. Okay, so in my honorable mentions, I have Poe Dameron Freefall. I just like the book because it's like very straight up, very fun. It's not that much to say.

And you learn a little bit about Poe. You can go the whole, oh, it's just filling in the gaps of my skywalker. I really had a ton of fun with that. And it's very, it's not a long read.

It's very quickly paced. I really like that one. Into the dark. I know that's a book you love.

I have in my honorable mentions, I have minor issues with that book that just keep it from rising up my list. But it's a great book. And we get into this to read who I love the character he's become like, I'm toward him in Midnight Horizon, which is a book that is not in my top five, but shout out to it. But yeah, that book was, it was so different from Night of the Jedi.

It really caught my attention when it came out. I don't know if you want to mention another one so I can think a little bit. Alright, so I'm going to go first. If I jump into my top five honorable mentions, just the other ones.

Man, I feel so bad just putting them here. So the alphabet's quite untriloly. My favorite one from Alex Andre Free, my favorite one I think is the second one, Shadowfall. I just love those books so much.

ITO that Tojo Droid became one of my favorite characters. All those because when I was reading, I think it was the first one because I got the first Shadowfall, I mean, I forgot about a month before Shadowfall came out. I didn't touch it, but I wanted to read Shadowfall, so I went back and was doing my rewatch of the Hannibal series, which is great. So just seeing all that, you know, psychologist of in Hannibal and then all that psychology, you know, you know, it's like you have to show up between ITO and Quel kind of, you know, so I love that dynamic.

So Shadowfall there. Midnight Horizon also is there by the name of the show there. I love this book, Summer Tempest Runner by Kevin Scott. Kevin Scott is one of my favorite Star Wars writers, so his name is going to come in.

Master of Apprentice, the Rancho De Cisner organization. I have Rebel Rising also almost there. And I'll say, because I attack him every chance I got, I have that first thrown cannon boot, my Timo Tisson. I really enjoyed that one.

The first one is there in my honorable mentions, almost jumping to the top five honorable mentions, but at least I have one thrombook. I won't throw him down too much. I have one thrombook in my honorable mentions, and it's actually the first one in the Ascendancy Chaos Rising. That book, okay, it was a tedious read, but it's not a bad book at all.

I can see how some people would love it. It's not my favorite, but I did end up being like, okay, this was a good one. And it was so different from everything with, it felt like a Star Trek book. That's nice.

And nothing wrong with that. And again, it's not necessarily my cup of tea, but it was still a great book. Another honorable mention that I have that if we had done this like a month ago, it would have been my number one, The Falling Star. I love reading it.

I know people who were hard-working by the end, but that end thing, there's something about it that, yes, it's sad, but it filled me with so much hope how Avar and Elsar deal with what happened. And they're like, that's how we must proceed with hope. And so I think those are my honorable. All right.

Okay, you got a thread in there. All right, so my top five honorable mentions in no specific order. Catalyst, which a year ago was my favorite Star Wars book is now down to an honorable mention. James Lucino did a great job.

I love how he connects to Rock One. I don't know if it was an emotional connection. It was something I didn't want to let go, but think about all the other books. I couldn't.

I don't know. I feel so bad because I said, you're in February 2021. I told Andrew, there is no way this book will ever be lower than number one. And now it's not even the top five.

Wow. So I didn't include it on my list because I was sure you were going to have it, but I'm too tired to make mental gymnastics around it. So, let me say hi to my friend Alan Chang. So hopefully, and of course, also, he doesn't know what she's saying.

Stanley is alive and well. He's swimming out there. Having fun with all the weird fish of that planet. He's hanging out with Boyaga.

Yes. A lot of the seats, which is one of those books that doesn't get talked about too much while I scan the great job with the other. It was my first audiobook. La radejela, also starting the high republic.

I know it was between this one and other one. It's introducing my favorite Star Wars in all of Star Wars. Unfortunately, I didn't make it. And then two Claudia Grey books here.

People are going to hate me. Lay up in terms of all the room, which I think I had as my top three last time. That's a great one, by the way. Lost Stars.

Sorry. It's on all mentioned. You know what? I'm going to say something.

I like lost stars. I really like that book. I've never, ever, ever gotten into the hype that book has behind it. I get it.

It was a great read. I really liked it. I just don't feel that love for it. Lost Stars.

Do I have? Finish it. Lost Stars was the first book that made me tear up at one point. There was a relationship between those characters.

There was a point where they weren't going to turn back. The divide was there already. I just tear up at one point. I want to go back to it because I think that I don't want it to be one of these emotional things and just hide from everyone else.

That's why I have it so high. I want to go back and read it. Lost Stars. Lost Stars.

That's the one. That's the one. That's it. I bought it.

I was walking through Costco and they had it and bought it. I read it like four years later. It's a great book. I won't deny that.

An honorable mention I do have. It's the aftermath trilogy. It's not great. It's not the best series of books.

I think it has done a very good job filling in that timeline. A lot of those things are starting to jump into other things. I haven't read it because everything I read about the first one is that it wasn't that good. But then it got better.

I think I got to go back because of that. It just expanded everything now. They picked so much out of that trilogy. It's not great.

It's not as bad as people said. I think that since it was the first series of books out of the bat, a lot of people had these expectations. I was thinking about it. It was a strange book.

They're good. They're actually really really good. I don't know why. Also it's adding talking about Lost Stars.

I think it's because it works really well as a standalone, white and romance. It gives you a different point of view. Some great characters, the relationship between Thane and Ciena. Check out the manga.

It's really cool. I think so. The art out there. I have that.

I think I read them as soon as I finished the book. It's not like a... All right. Are you ready to start with our top five?

You'll say your top five. We'll talk about it a little bit. Then I'll go to my top five and number five. Then we'll go back and forth.

Starting with you, your number five favorite Star Wars book. My first, not in my top five, is a book I really love. I think it's a book that when A underappreciated, and I think not a lot of people read it, it's resistance reborn by Rebecca Roanhorse. Like you, this was the first book I ever teared up reading.

There's this scene where it finds out about what happened in great and what happened to Luke. He breaks down. He's like, I'll hope it's lost. It really really got to him.

How they idolized Luke in the galaxy, just like us fans idolized him. That was big. I had no idea going into it, but it works as a sequel to Bloodline in a very interesting way that I was not expecting in any way whatsoever. I'm not even going to say it, just in case someone hasn't read it.

There's this huge thing that happens and I'm like, oh my god. There's a certain character that returns. I'm just going to say that. Character right now.

It was a fun book. It helped fill in the gap between last year I un-rised a skywalker. There were some things I would have wished the movie had J.D. just read a little bit of the book.

It was just like character. There were a lot of things set up there. But it still works within the confines of those movies. It's a book I really loved when I read it.

All right. Dogs are gone. I have to get them out. I got a couple of nails.

I just went clack, clack, clack, clack. So, resistance reborn is a book that I really enjoyed. But maybe then blame J.D. or something.

I didn't feel that connection to write a skywalker. It's that one year in between the movies. Here we go. What happened?

It shows you a great story that you mentioned with Wedge snaps that redundancy was great. Plus you learned how the resistance is getting all the ship because all the three was destroyed in the last year. So, at least when the movie comes out, you're not all well. They don't have any ships.

Oh, this gives you that story. I really enjoyed it. But I don't know. It was something missing for me in that book.

I don't have any my top five. It's one that I forget about. I love it unfortunately. It's a well-written book.

It's just not there in my top. I'm going to tell you something. I was listening to the audiobook of that book. And I was stuck in traffic.

It was like this car crash. I was going to bonset in the south part of the week. I was stuck in traffic for like an hour. So, I was listening to the book.

And since, as I mentioned, it has to do with feeling how it made me feel. And that book helped that car be all fun better. I know a lot of people don't. But I've also seen people who like read it a couple years after it came out.

And they've been like, this was a great book. Why don't we talk about it? And I think you have a point there. It doesn't...

There's like emotional stuff that ties into that movie and some arcs in a way, especially with Leah. But I do think that people saw RAYSIS skywalker and they were like, nah. That might be because one of the reasons I love Karel is so much is because I connected to Rogue One. Maybe I was hoping for something similar.

I'm not having that kind of expectation of the best of me. But it does help again with Wetch and Snap watching Ratch the Skywalker when Wetch shows up. Okay, I know why he's there. And unfortunately, Snap's kind of...

That happened. You're like, oh, no. Wetch, you just got there. I wanted that extended scene at the end where Wetch is like hugging everyone.

It sounds like a snapback. What? Oh man, that's too much. All right.

My number five, no surprise. Shadow DeSiv, Alan Christopher. We spent an hour and more about it last week. I love this book so much.

Maybe it's because I said that's one I read, it's so high on my list. But I said it, and all people saying it, everything with Luke, the Akka, the Zabayon, the Akka, the Zabayon, the Akka, the Zabayon, the Akka, the Zabayon, the Akka, the Zabayon, the Zabayon, the Zabayon, the Zabayon. Everything with Kiber crystals with X and Punch arc, the curved blade of dark naught, it just did something for me. My appreciation again for the dark side of the forest, so it works, it corrupts everything.

Plus you get all this story with Lando searching for his daughter, connects to RAYSIS skywalker and the rest of the Akka trilogy. We get to learn more about RAYS'S parents, why they were there, why they left with her friend. We still don't know why he's the only one that can help, plus we have our favorite bad day like Kiber that really doesn't look like a day like Kiber, he's always messing up Ochi, but I love that book so much. I like, go see our episode from last week if you want our full thoughts on it.

So this is interesting, because that's actually my number four. Shut up, that's it. You're saying four, go about this book? I had to do it until the next episode, but I can't.

Alright, so yeah, your number four. So it's actually my number four. I love this book, I told you, it's the first book I've ever read that has made me sit on a hundred click pages. I read it very quickly, A, because I had made the promise to be in the podcast, but it also didn't feel like homework in any week.

And I've had to always feel like that. I really want to really sell review on it, I'm tired, and it never got to that. And probably didn't help with my move, because I left everything for the last minute. But yeah, again, we did an over an hour episode on it.

It has so many little tidbits and details and connections, and it's also very well written. It's not just about pointing at the screen and everything. I know, I thought it was a great story. Sorry I wanted to summarize this guy.

Yeah, like you said, this book has a lot that I don't Christopher have to work with, and it could very easily become a one of those. Yeah, I know this, I know this, I know this, but I know this, I know this, because it expanded like 20, 24. Every little thing had a reason for being there. That's a book that's going to always be there, because, oh man, and that's why maybe I want to go back and check the chocolate industry.

I'm sure Narktays, the Agilites are the beyond introducing that to the list. Great job. Before we move on to my number four, do you do all your books mostly, or do you do regular heartcores? I mentioned it a bunch of eight, I'm a hard-colored guy.

I hate paperbacks. I hate them. And especially if they're like the... Hey, my paper bag.

I hate those ones, specifically little ones. And actually for that book, I paid more than I'm willing to accept on that book just to get the hard-colored. But I got it wasn't $100, but it was more than in front of me. So I do hard-cars, but I've told you, my favorite experience with Star Wars book, the book, and the audiobook at the same time.

It helps with keeping your reading pacing, and the audiobook for Star Wars books is incredible. The production value is just insane. Yeah, I love audiobooks. I haven't done a lot.

I don't know the same thing I mentioned, Tempest Runner, and the last Chromebooks was the last one. The only three audiobooks that I've done. And I love all the production behind it, all the special effects, the music and all that. I know that I just forgot his name, the guy that does all the voices, and I know he's a goat.

He does a great job. I'll say it. It pulled me out some of the voice choices that he used for the Thronbook. He just pulled me out.

I couldn't deal with his voice for Cherry and for Adeias. He sounded like a grown-up for your man trying to do an 80-year-old girl's voice. And he just threw me. I couldn't take it seriously.

Everything else was fine, but the way someone else was a little too gruff. I get the answer from the 20s, I can't. But everything else is done. It's great.

But I love what they do with Tempest Runner, and I didn't get to do Kudie that I lost this way, where they have the forecast. That's... I love those. I'll never stop singing his phrases.

His Mark Young Row is just top-top. And I want an animated show. I need him to be quick. He does a great throwing.

I'm not taking that away from him. I prefer my books physical at this point. I just want to have them there. I prefer them physically until I have to move them.

I don't know if it's more like... My number four, and this is from an author that's quickly becoming one of my favorites as I'm doing this list. Oh, man, it's the main show, but it's from Kevin Scott, and it's the rising storm. It was difficult between that and the rising storm, but I had to go with the rising storm, the second one of the other books, the public, the Valo Fair.

We finally get more with Sten and Geos. We get El Sarban there. We don't get able to do it unfortunately. But we get introduced to Tyurek, which I love.

We have weird creatures hanging around. Tyurek and El Sarban having to work together, use this for his mindmill to be able to get on these dragons and fly away to help out. And then the ending, of course, if we're talking about breaking hearts, everything happens with the low and great storm. We have the leveler is revealed and released.

The Jedi can say, okay, we're done with this. We're going after the Nile, and we're going to attack them at their base. We have all the backs that way in between the Nile with whatever. I forgot the name of the runners.

But just everything goes down in that book. We have Sten and Geos as the face of the Jedi at that point. Even though he really doesn't want to be, he's not really upfront with everything. But he has the face of the Jedi.

He raised the chance of the story. So everything about that book, Kevin Scott did a great job following up on the Jedi, which they don't in task of introducing this whole new era. And then rising storm just blew it out of the water. So rising storm, I know it's my favorite book.

I will not talk about the rising storm because it's somewhere in my list. Alright, we'll get there. Let's say hi to a new friend, other J. Pylon, hi, all huge showers fans.

As we all are, thanks for joining us today. And let us know in the comments. Let me chat, I should say. What are some of your favorite Star Wars books out there?

Or stories if you read comics or anything? Actually, you just... Okay, so when I did the mental gymnastics, I had to take something out. And one I forgot to mention in my honorable mentions.

I had the Darth Vader run for Shawn Sol. And I just want to say, please read comics. I'm a huge comic guy. And that story is just insane.

And Greg Pack is doing a great job with the current run. And it's surprising because Charles just said the bar is so high. But that run is just incredible, incredible. And I think comics are literature.

So many English teachers. Yeah, that 25-issue Darth Vader run by Charles Sol was your srenomenal. From starting from Indian, eventually, the seed, all the way to everything. So I introduced a great concept of the...

Oh man, I can verify some. I'm moving paper around the Barash Vao. I forgot the name of the Jedi that takes the Barash Vao. Yeah, which comes back back into the dark.

So yeah, read comics and start with that one. So your number, we're going to number three. What's your number three favorite song? I know it was also my number one for a while.

And it's light of the Jedi. I love that book. It's the perfect introduction to this new era. It's very well paced.

I can get people seeing a little bit daunting and how it jumps around with so many characters. And at the beginning, it's very hard to get a grasp on who you're supposed to be following very closely. Because at the beginning, we have a whole lot of jumping around with all the victims of what's about to happen. And then you get introduced to all the Jedi at the same time.

But it's still a great book. I think after that first part of the book, when you get into part two and third three, everything settles down a little bit. And you get to know who the key players are in the story. And it's just a fun...

I really can't imagine a better introduction into a brand new era of Star Wars. I feel so bad by not having it in my top five. I mean, a lot of the Jedi, it's more you think about it, but it just starts so depressing. Not depressing, but it gives you hope and then just pulls a rug out of your chapter one, right there.

Done. Chapter two, even worse. Then when chapter three comes in, you think the whole freaking plan is going to explode or the moon. And then you get the same increase from the Jedi castor, Jedi Master, Jedi Master, and I got the chance to help.

I'm like, yes, I got them. And I got the chance to shoot. I was there. I was with them trying.

And when she said, Jedi Master, I got Chris who were here to help. I'm like, yes, freaking Jedi here. Again, tear it up by something so simple. And then halfway through the book, or three quarters when they're on Elfrona, and they have kidnapped Nyle, have kidnapped this family.

And then we have all the Jedi following. And the little kid is looking behind. And the lightsaber is like Robin. Oh, they're coming.

I'm like, yes, the Jedi hope is there. So yeah, a lot of the Jedi, one of the best books. And again, like you said, just to introduce these new era and so many characters, but then also gives us one of the best ways that we start to understand for us and how the Jedi connected for us, something brand new in Star Wars. And I love that concept.

It also introduced us to us to the best villain of all time, Mark and Rob. So yeah, I also love how they played Mark and that story. Because you're like, is he a pawn of this? What's his deal?

And then at the end, boom, no, he's a master of puppets. And so I was, because when this era was introduced, I said, oh, the Nyle, an enemy that Jedi have never kind of faced and halfway, I'm like, these are just pirates or my brothers with a ceramic scheme. What's going on? Well, by the end, you're like, oh, okay, they came to play.

I know what's going on. And let me see what I know. Of course, she said something. Also, I'm in macho row because I'm a little kid in me army.

They like to say. J is the Marvel comic or real issues with Luke Skywalker. And of course, much of the sound stuff. Great picks out there.

And two things. When I started reading that book, I had just read chaos rising. And when I first heard of the death, when I first heard of the dead, I was like, no, I thought it was like an in the song book. It took me a while to realize there were actually ships.

And just another thing, when that twist gets, so that's kind of the thing about audiobooks. I was kind of spoiled on the twist that Mark and Rob orchestrated everything because when that scene happens, when he calls the dead, I took on to Elthrona. It's Mark and his voice. It's kind of like, it sounds a little bit different, but it's the same voice.

So I remember I was sitting in my kitchen reading at seven in the morning. And when it got to that part, he recited what he said. I dropped the book. I was like, hahaha.

Yeah, it's great. Again, Charles Soles, then go around. The authors that they picked to study high republic and then even wave two that's coming on their face too. They know what they're doing.

And like we mentioned at the beginning that when there wasn't any Star Wars movie between all these different trilides, like books and comics were keeping it up. And kind of Jay adding the vintage time period stories were so much fun in the building of the Star Wars lore, love those old stories. Yeah, that's great. They're still there for people that want to go back and start reading some of those.