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I'm a consumer whore
And so, seven hours after returning home, I've successfully devoured one of the books and proceed to digest it.
New Jedi Order: Traitor seems to be the philosophical climax of the series. I'm still not sure I like it. Stover plays games with tense and point of view that are as annoying as they are pointed, especially before their purpose is obvious. The battle scenes were overdramatized, but again, in the greater context of the omnipresence of the force, I will forgive them. The whole theme revolves around the concept that the Jedi have it all wrong, that the Dark Side is not an aspect of the Force, but merely and aspect of the user. When Jedi gives in to passion and release their self-control to the Force, Dark Jedi fall not by the Force itself but by the darkness of their own desires. To my untrained eye, the new concept of the Force took on a very Buddhist slant, in many iterations of the theme all is one and that the universe is the Force is life etcetera. Despite my objections, however, in keeping an open mind I enjoyed the read.
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New Jedi Order: Traitor seems to be the philosophical climax of the series. I'm still not sure I like it. Stover plays games with tense and point of view that are as annoying as they are pointed, especially before their purpose is obvious. The battle scenes were overdramatized, but again, in the greater context of the omnipresence of the force, I will forgive them. The whole theme revolves around the concept that the Jedi have it all wrong, that the Dark Side is not an aspect of the Force, but merely and aspect of the user. When Jedi gives in to passion and release their self-control to the Force, Dark Jedi fall not by the Force itself but by the darkness of their own desires. To my untrained eye, the new concept of the Force took on a very Buddhist slant, in many iterations of the theme all is one and that the universe is the Force is life etcetera. Despite my objections, however, in keeping an open mind I enjoyed the read.
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