Royal
Connoisseur of Exotic Pictures
Just ticked The Legends of Luke Skywalker off the list. Short and to the point opinion: this book is crap. I didn't finish it so much as put it down without any intention of ever picking it back up again. It's another collection of short stories though in this case all by the same author (Ken Liu). All of them are accounts of interactions with Luke Skywalker or someone thought to be Luke told by various common man types (as well as a droid and an intelligent species of flea). And for the most part they relied too much on name dropping in an attempt to make otherwise weak stories compelling.
This was billed as one of the Journey to The Last Jedi books but, from the parts of it I did read, it really doesn't do much to set the movie up. The narrative throughline connecting all of the stories takes place on a cargo freighter headed to Canto Bight (where part of TLJ takes place) and one of the stories delves into Luke exploring the philosophy of the light and dark sides of the force as two parts of a whole that work in unison (one of the emerging themes of TLJ) but that was about it. One interesting takeaway from that story was an elder who had refused to share her knowledge with Luke told him she hoped that one day he to would be pestered by a student eager to learn what he did not wish to teach. Some obvious foreshadowing there.
This was billed as one of the Journey to The Last Jedi books but, from the parts of it I did read, it really doesn't do much to set the movie up. The narrative throughline connecting all of the stories takes place on a cargo freighter headed to Canto Bight (where part of TLJ takes place) and one of the stories delves into Luke exploring the philosophy of the light and dark sides of the force as two parts of a whole that work in unison (one of the emerging themes of TLJ) but that was about it. One interesting takeaway from that story was an elder who had refused to share her knowledge with Luke told him she hoped that one day he to would be pestered by a student eager to learn what he did not wish to teach. Some obvious foreshadowing there.
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