Expounded Universe

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Chapter 36 opens with our new favorite phrase: “Several months later.”  The languid pace of this rescue is wild, right?  Anyway, all three chapters this week concern Corran’s attempts to impress a bunch of pirates.  He hasn’t advanced on the case of his wife yet.  The book has about 12 chapters left.

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Okay, here we go!  We’re done with the Jedi temple, we’re done with Grandpa’s house, time to finally rescue Mirax, all we gotta do is… join up with a pirate crew for at least a month WHAT IS THIS HOW DID THIS HAPPEN.

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Obviously Corran is feeling a little down on himself for spending two and a half months at the Jedi academy instead of just looking for his wife, so the most natural course of action is to go crash at his grandpa’s house for an impromptu family reunion and night on the town!  Okay, fine other stuff is happening too, but that is the main thing that’s happening.

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Ooh lots of ground to cover this week, as get this, Corran Horn is leaving Yavin 4!  With about half of the book left, will we finally start the book?  Also we get to deal with Exar Kun, and meet Booster Terrik!

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The cavalcade of guest stars visiting Fantasy Planet continues, as we are now getting a chance to meet Han (again, remember!?) and Leia, along with the Solo twins, make brief appearances to deal with the Luke being in a coma situation.  Also, we finally meet Exar Kun!  Gotta admit, it is sorta funny watching a straightforward evil tempting ghost deal with our pedantic overexplainer lead.  But hey, you’ll see!

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I can’t help but wonder just exactly how much of this book is Jedi school.  It became increasingly weird to deal with a book about a missing wife, clearly in some form of mortal danger, where the answer was “Take a few college classes and then go look for her.”  Anyway here I am, looking at Kyp and Mara Jade stories just being retold from this puffed-up ex-cop’s overly pedantic perspective.

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I looked at how the book was and realized this first person gimmick was going to wear out its welcome sooner rather than later, even if the book makes it work a little.  I just don’t have that tendency to self-narrate, and also there aren’t any sexy people in my editing space for me to describe at length every time I see them.  For now, we’ll soldier on, as the Exar Kun investigation begins and a round of guests and new students begin to arrive.

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Over and over I’m exposed to characters I’ve heard of, stories I faintly remember, but at each turn I’m confronted with the nagging fact that someone has been inserted into each scene.  It’s Corran Horn, obviously, and as each story from Luke’s temple unfolds, he’s usually nearby, being slightly superior.  How do I go on?  How long til this book gets to the missing wife stuff?  This is a weird plan, I remind myself.

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After a little too much time noodling around on Coruscant, I found myself excited to finally get to the Jedi Factory.  Am I finally going to get connected to the few new recruits we met all the way back in Jedi Search?  Before that, I reminded myself, it’s time to watch Corran Horn just fail again and again to read the room.

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Intrigued, I perused further into the book.  “Nonsense!” I exclaimed!  It’s already chapter 7!  How is he still doodling around on Coruscant receiving praise from all his famous friends?  Surely he must eventually go do something, I reasoned, pressing ever onward.

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