Bump because its still a huge problem.

Agreed completely. In fact, The Paradise Snare was the first full length novel I ever read. I was about 12 years old at the time. I still credit that book for kickstarting my love of reading. Which is funny, because one of my favorite authors, Jim Butcher, credits The Han Solo Adventures as kickstarting his love of reading. Note that The HS Trilogy and The HS Adventures are two completely different sets of books. The Adventures was written first and takes place during a gap in the second book of The HS Trilogy.

Wookiepedia is not the place to see if you like the stuff in the EU, a bookstore or library is. As has been stated, the original movies can sound just as ridiculous if reduced down that way. For instance, A New Hope is about a poor farm boy who meets a wizard, a pirate, and a giant dog after is foster parents are killed. The boy goes on to rescues a princess who kisses him and he falls in love with, even though she is secretly his sister. The farm boy then joins the princess's army and winds up destroying a space station the size of a small moon by firing at it once with his eyes closed. ----------- If you want to know if you'll like it, read it. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn is always highly recommended. I also recommend the Han Solo Trilogy by A.C. Crispin. It gives some background on the character I always loved the most from the OT, from his childhood to the Mos Eisley cantina where he met Obi Wan and Luke.