Kai Stormwalker’s Holocron

I have been reading the book, Traitor, by Matthew Stover as part of my assignments. I remembered what I have always hated about Star Wars books. There are about 6 pages of really interesting stuff and 285 pages of really boring stuff.

I have to admit that I am not much of a fiction reader. I don’t know who most of the characters are, and I don’t really care.

Of course, I’m not even all that much into the Star Wars movies either. When I was in college I was really into science fiction and it was against that back drop that I saw A New Hope on the day it opened in 1977. But I never got into them like a lot of people.

The idea of the Jedi really intriqued me. But I am more interested in how real Jedi would function in today’s world than in how the fictional Jedi functioned in a fictional world.

But, to get back to Traitor, at least in those 6 really interesting pages I did find some ideas that are making me think about certain things. So, ala in all, I would have to say that it is worth reading the boring parts. (That is what speed reading is for.)

When I re-read Traitor and even Destiny’s Way, I tend to thumb to the particular parts I’ve already marked that are interesting/potentially relevant to how we see ourselves as Jedi. I like the Vergere/Jacen material, but really dislike how that’s been warped in later series. :\