Over the years, “looking at the pictures” became “reading the profiles.” Gradually, I began to understand the Star Wars timeline outside of the films, which were my only source of Star Wars material up to that point. Not long after he purchased it, however, I cracked the tome open to at least look at the pictures. It was in the “for sale” shelves, so he picked it up and bought it for me – even though I was not truly interested in it at the time. Then, on a trip to the library, my father found The New Essential Guide to Characters. So I left the books sitting on the shelf, planning to dive into them when I was older and had a better chance of appreciating them. While my parents had copies of several Star Wars EU novels and encouraged me to read them, I was young enough at the time that the volumes appeared too large and adult for a child of my age to understand. Star Wars: The New Essential Guide to Characters (the edition published in 2002), was my first introduction to the franchise’s original Expanded Universe.
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