I just finished the final book of the NJO about fifteen minutes ago. To be more specific, 4:21 AM EST, 11/05/03. No, I don't know why I'm telling you this, and I don't know why I'm recording it. I certainly didn't record when I started Vector Prime. On the other hand, I didn't understand what I was starting with that book, other than a brand-new SW novel with new ideas, new enemies, and new frontiers.
Still, I honestly can't believe it's over. It's been a five-year journey, and it's been a part of me for so long that it just seems like it's going to be missing. I've matured so much over the past five years, and the New Jedi Order saga has been there throughout. I don't want to ascribe more to it than it's honestly been, but it has opened new authors, new ideas, and new ways of staying up until 4 in the morning to finish a new book. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, indeed; and a new philosophical idea in the hands and mind of a dreamer and thinker is more dangerous than all the knowledge in the world. In some ways, my thinking has been influenced by this series; no more than anything else I read, to be sure, but likewise no less.
For all that I've been annoyed at the authors and books at times, some more so than others, it's a brilliant philosophical series, with some stunning bits of writing (and some not-so-stunning) and some very interesting parallels to theology and faith.
I'm going to miss it.
-David
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