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I hate to be a snob, but I draw the line at tie-in books. Sure are a lot of them though. 

Uh oh, gonna have to change your name to Matt Snob!

There are good tie-ins and bad tie-ins, I think, though in general I shy away from them...though not for this week's blogs.

I'd love a Psychonauts tie-in ...

I saw a paperback collection of the first three books in a case at a Goodwill not too long ago. I was really tempted for nostalgia sake but didn't get them. I've read them all and I don't really have the room for all that stuff. 

I usually am wary of tie-books like Matt but with Halo I've been on board from the beginning. They've all be pretty darn good. Mass Effect has a few good ones too. 

But I was just looking at a Star Wars tie-in book at my library job today and decided I had no interest in those. There are so many of them, it's crazy. I might finish the Thrawn Trilogy one day though. 

I got the first two Mass Effect novels from the library after I played ME2 and enjoyed them. The first one was better, in my opinion, because it was a direct prequel to the first game and dealt with important story characters, whereas the second book took place between the games and was very tangential to the story because, naturally, the author had no way to know what any given player would choose to do in the game. There have been a few more novels, I think, and a bunch of comics but I haven't read any of those.

I've read the original Thrawn trilogy and it was quite good. I'd like to try the new Thrawn books. Geez, you know Thrawn is a great character when Disney hires Timothy Zahn to write new novels that bring Thrawn into the new canon.

I'd like to read the X-Wing books. I hear those are really good. But yeah, on the whole there are waaaay too many Star Wars novel series. Have you read the Knights of the Old Republic comics? They are not related to the games, just the time period, but they're really good. I'd go so far as to say they're my second favorite comics after Mega Man. Your library might have the omnibus collections, of which there are three. The third one drops down to just "good" but the first two are excellent.

I read that first Mass Effect novel and enjoyed it. Seemed like a James Bond story but in space. 

I read the first Thrawn novel. I need to read the other two. 

I used to follow the Knights of the Old Republic comic. I loved it. Too bad I don't have my comic collection anymore. That would be one to reaquire though.