I’ve been saying this for over a decade now (which makes me feel a little old): Read the novelizations of the prequels, and you’ll see how far short the films managed to fall. There are some things that are failures in both conception AND execution (Anakin is still a bit whiny, especially in Phantom Menace; the love…

“Conversely, if sales are similar or better, then I’d have to admit that the risk was worth it for the publisher, even if I don’t like the style.”

Wendig’s abortion of book made me physically angry while reading it. Books have caused many emotions in me over the years, but I’ve never had one make me mad as I was reading it because it was so terribly written.

I got one page into Aftermath before putting it down. I honestly haven’t seen terrible writing like that in ages, and I had to slog through Divergent for a class in undergrad.

I agree but you are being way too generous. Like the Starwarsian junkie that I am, I grabbed Aftermath on its release day. From the first paragraph I was pretty sure they’d accidentally published his shitty notes for the book instead of an actual novel. I will be avoiding anything with that hacks name on it.

Starred for you refuting some commenter’s harebrained assumption of bigotry despite you very specifically detailing what it is you do not like about the book and author.

Wendig’s writing strikes me as a fan fiction/RP fanboy that somehow managed to convince a publishing company he was a decent novel author. His style and ability is on par with the below average Star Wars RP writing I’ve experienced.

This. Skip Wendig, read Lost Stars.

That’s just, like, your opinion, man.

Sigh. Agreed, the book was mediocre at best.

I’m having trouble understanding...

Ummm, what? Isn’t Chewbacca the one that owes Han?

Amen brother - that book gave The Crystal Star a run for it’s money as the worst Star Wars book ever put to paper. What a piece of shit.

Hopefully it not be completely unreadable like that fucking awful Aftermath.

Well Davos was at the Wall IIRC? And Melisandre just arrives and gives them the terrible news about Stannis and Shireen.

Yeah, in the book the humans dont know a whole lot about the mimics, but in the book, about 2/3rds into it, the story is stopped and you get a whole chapter about where the mimics come from and why they do the things they do. Its really jarring to have the story stop just to have a info dump. But the mimics almost…

I see what you did there and I like it.

I don’t know too much about GoT, but PLEASE tell me The Celebration of Burny Delights is actually a funk band in Westeros! If not, it NEEDS to be in our world!

Well once you stab a person you don’t just stand there and watch. You run away so that whoever discovers the body doesn’t know who killed Jon.