Books like Zorba the Hutt's Revenge

Ahhhh, this is that Good Shit.You know how I said the second book just didn’t give me that mixture of horror and delight that the first one did? Book 3 delivers, and then some.This one’s bullet points will mostly be in chronological order because I was furiously highlighting in my ebook the entire time. I don’t think I marked any spoilers here, so enter at your own risk.• Han actually managed to build – by hand- a giant floaty house super fast? And Luke waits until he’s ON THE WAY TO THE HOUSEWARMING PARTY to buy the gift. Absolute disasterman lmao.• Listen. Listen. I’m not an expert on the various ships of the Star War, but I am fairly certain that you can’t fit TWO PEOPLE AND FOUR DROIDS into ONE Y-WING. Idk what kind of clowncar Y-Wing Luke has, but the illustration makes it look pretty spacious for what I’m pretty sure IS A ONE-PERSON SHIP. Anyway. EDIT: Ok, my bad, Wookieepedia says it holds two people. STILL THO• The authors try SO HARD to make Tatooine into NOT a seedy hellhole. The speeder rental place(???) offers insurance! The cantinas close some time at night (lmaoooo)! There’s an actual governing body that’s not the Hutts* and they turned Jabba’s abandoned palace into the “Tatooine Retirement Home for Aged Aliens” for a while! SURE, JAN.• The Jawas host a Droidfest every year, and I would very much like a “Droidfest ‘92” t-shirt, if you ever see one. Also??? JAWAS HAVE REGIONAL MANAGERS!!! Which makes me picture a Jawa in a tie. Just, you know, a regular robed Jawa, but they have a tie.• SO UH, this one still has the Bad Takes the other ones have. We’re still throwing around the word “mutant.” We’re still othering the shit out of non-humans. And we’re still really weird about gender. Like, did you know that droids can be sexist about other droids?? Droids, which don’t really…have…….gender?? They just like, present tertiary sexual characteristics. That were put there by the people who built them. But they’re droids. Sooooooooooooo…o So like, C-3PO, OF ALL PEOPLE starts saying shit about “wow this FEMALE DROID you’re getting for Han is built really well for a FEMALE DROID” and Luke interrupts to say, like “now, now, Threepio. Female Droids are built the SAME as Male Droids!” DROID MISOGYNY IS OVER! I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS A THING. I’M SO TIRED, Y’ALL.o I’m thinking….that this was a weird, heavy-handed attempt at, like, empowering female readers? It was 1992, so this would not have been a BAD attempt at this for the time, per se. The bar was pretty low. It’s still pretty low. ANYWAY!• '“I understand, Ken,’ he said, though he didn't really understand.” ??????????• SO THE HOUSEWARMING PARTY. Absolutely BUCKWILD.o I don’t know what the FUCK a zoochberry is, but they won’t shut up about it. Even Wookieepedia only had a vague idea of what it is; the best they could give me was that it’s a type of berry that’s “presumably” used in various zoochberry food and beverages mentioned in these trashfire books. “Presumably????” “Presumably????????” No one drinks booze, it’s all zoochberry juice babyyyy.o This books keeps going out of its way to mention that some characters are bachelors. Han has a bunch of pilot buddies that are “bachelors.” Kids don’t give a shit about this, and there’s no point in mentioning it unless Han wants to fix these unnamed bachelors up with somebody…unless they’re Confirmed Bachelors??