Hi Dark, Wo! If you want to read something like Star Wars, such as every book in chronological order, that would be a lot of reading. How far back to the beginning are we talking. As I said in one of my posts there are several different eras. We could go clear back in to the Knights of the Old Republic era which happens thousands of years before the Clone Wars. You Could start with something like Cloak of Deception which happens about 20 years before the Clone Wars and read from there etc. Either way if you want to go back to the beginning we are talking a couple dozen books before we even get to Star Wars a New Hope which was the first book and movie released. Then, from there there is at least 40 or 50 books that happens after A New Hope. It would take you a good year or two to read all that.
Plus I don't mean to disappoint you, but not all the history is in books. We have the Star Wars Clone Wars cartoons that has a lot of cannon information not found in the books per say. Also some story lines found in the Star Wars comic books has a habit of being cannonized at some point as well. For example, Luke and Mara's wedding is never covered in any book, but was covered in the Star Wars comics, and obviously became cannonized as historical events in the Star Wars universe. In another case Lumiya, Darth Vader's apprentice, shows up in the Star Wars comics initially. For several years she remained nothing more and nothing less than a comic book villen. However, once she was used in the Legacy of the Force series suddenly she was ccannonized, and became a part of the Star Wars history thus making all the comic books in that series historical. Since the comics aren't exactly accessible we are at a disadvantage as we can't get the entire chronology through books and movies. Cheers! On 12/15/10, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > to be honest charlese, while I suspect this is the case (the thrawn books > were the first I read but I had no trouble placing them time wise being as I > do know the films), I am a bit of a stickler for reading books or watching > series and films in the correct order. > > I have to begin at the beginning and go through to the end, and if there are > spinoffs or the like I have to do them in their correct place if I can. > > for instance, I am about to watch babylon 5 again. I bought the big box set, > containing all five series, pluss the spinoff series crusade, pluss all the > films. When i originally watched the series back in 2006, I went on > wikipedia and specifically looked up after which episodes the various extras > came, even down to breaking off a series in the middle to watch one film in > one case. > > so, while I understand the starwars thing, it's just generally a part of how > I tend to do things. > > I think i might be so dogmatic about this sinse while growing up, the rnib > talking book library was my main source of stuff to read, however they made > no effort either to send books of a series in order, ---- -or even to record > books of a series logically. > > they for instance once sent me Isac asimov's foundation series in the order > of books 1, 2, the second prequal, then four. It actually turned out they > never recorded the first prequal nor books 3 and five at that point. > > this is probably why I'm so insistant on correct chronology and placement of > things, ---- either that or I'm just being fixated and pedantic ;d. > > Beware the Grue! > > dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.